✅ #1 Mike 2.1 Phase 1: design system, Vercel AI Gateway, Stripe paywall +8,621 -2,748 12d ago self by
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hosman20/mike-2.0
hosman20 is turning Mike into a paid B2B SaaS for Middle East law firms - paywalled, subscription-funded, and visually rebuilt as a polished product.
This fork takes Mike out of prototype territory and points it at a specific buyer: law firms in the Middle East willing to pay a subscription. hosman20 has wrapped the product in Stripe billing with a 14-day trial, gated every AI call behind a paywall, and shifted the cost of LLM traffic onto the platform so customers no longer bring their own API keys.
The visual identity is being rebuilt from the ground up under a "Mike 2.1" banner - a warm paper-and-ink design language, a new two-rail chrome, and a mandatory organisation field at signup that telegraphs the B2B intent. There's also a local-preview escape hatch for development that explicitly refuses to disengage in production.
The release is paperwork-complete: a deploy checklist, a parked hotfix backlog, and a dead-code sweep all suggest hosman20 is taking this to deploy rather than leaving it in a drawer.
What's in it
- Stripe-powered subscription paywall A full subscription stack with a 14-day trial on signup and a paywall that intercepts every AI request.
- Platform-paid LLM routing All model traffic is routed centrally and metered, removing the bring-your-own-key model entirely.
- B2B signup with mandatory firm name Auth is reworked around organisations - a small form change that signals who this product is being sold to.
- Mike 2.1 design system A ground-up visual redesign with a "warm paper and ink" aesthetic meant to read as a paid product, not a demo.
- Two-rail app shell A compact icon strip plus a contextual secondary column replaces the old sidebar, making room for upcoming Playbooks.
- Safe local-preview bypass A development escape hatch disables auth and the paywall on a laptop, but refuses to do so in production.
Direction
brandingmulti-tenantinfrastructure
Activity
📝 Mike 2.1 Phase 1 release bookkeeping: checklist, run log, merge (no public page) 3 commits 12d ago not yet rewritten
📝 hosman20 turns Mike into a paid product for Middle East law firms 12 commits 13d ago brandinginfrastructure draft
Phase one of a rebrand swaps the prototype's bring-your-own-API-key model for a subscription, paywall, and trial - staged so any piece can be rolled back.
Three small cleanups that signal the Middle East SaaS rebrand is heading for deploy, not the drawer.
📝 hosman20 builds a local-preview escape hatch with a safety belt 1 commit 13d ago infrastructuresecurity draft
A dev-mode bypass that turns off login and the paywall on a laptop - and refuses to turn them off in production.
📝 Dead-code sweep after Mike 2.1 + gateway migrations (no public page) 1 commit 13d ago not yet rewritten
The fork now ships with a full Stripe subscription stack, a 14-day trial on signup, and a paywall that intercepts every AI call.
📝 hosman20 puts the platform on the hook for AI bills 1 commit 13d ago infrastructureintegration draft
Customers stop bringing their own API keys; the fork now pays the model providers and meters usage centrally.
A 64-pixel icon strip plus a 224-pixel contextual column replaces the old collapsible sidebar - and quietly makes room for Playbooks.
A small form-field change that telegraphs a much bigger pivot: this fork is going B2B.
Before billing or paywalls, hosman20 is rebuilding Mike's visual vocabulary from the ground up - a deliberate "warm paper and ink" look meant to read as a paid product, not a prototype.
Threads of work (detailed view)
hosman20 tidies the Phase 1 release before shipping
Three small cleanups that signal the Middle East SaaS rebrand is heading for deploy, not the drawer.
hosman20 turns Mike into a paid product for Middle East law firms
Phase one of a rebrand swaps the prototype's bring-your-own-API-key model for a subscription, paywall, and trial - staged so any piece can be rolled back.
hosman20 builds a local-preview escape hatch with a safety belt
A dev-mode bypass that turns off login and the paywall on a laptop - and refuses to turn them off in production.
hosman20 puts Mike behind a paywall
The fork now ships with a full Stripe subscription stack, a 14-day trial on signup, and a paywall that intercepts every AI call.
hosman20 puts the platform on the hook for AI bills
Customers stop bringing their own API keys; the fork now pays the model providers and meters usage centrally.
hosman20 splits the Mike shell into two rails
A 64-pixel icon strip plus a 224-pixel contextual column replaces the old collapsible sidebar - and quietly makes room for Playbooks.
hosman20 makes a firm name mandatory at signup
A small form-field change that telegraphs a much bigger pivot: this fork is going B2B.
hosman20 lays the foundation for a Middle East legal SaaS
Before billing or paywalls, hosman20 is rebuilding Mike's visual vocabulary from the ground up - a deliberate "warm paper and ink" look meant to read as a paid product, not a prototype.
Pull requests (detailed view)
✅ Merged (1)
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hosman20 · opened 12d ago · merged 12d ago by hosman20