Comment by Havoc
6 days ago
That's nice but it's on google's broken AI studio thing. I can't use half the stuff on there because it requires a Google One account. Which I'm ineligible for because I'm on a workspace account. Can I switch? No, because Google One doesn't support own domains.
So I need to run (AND PAY!) two accounts to have both a nice email address and Banana? Starting to think the correct number of paid google accounts here is zero.
shameless plug burlap will let you just use keys from gemini studio or openai and try stuff out without messing with the web interfaces. that's (one reason) i made it
https://www.burlap.app/download
That looks solid.
Alas UI isn't the problem. I want google to fix their broken plans.
Why can a FREE consumer account use antigravity but my $22 plan can't?
It's not even consistent within my account. I can generate a Banana 2 image in gemini interface but on aistudio it says I need to pay for an upgrade (which I can't).
Do they design their plans with a strong pull from a joint and a magic 8 ball?
Probably busy mirroring binary search trees? ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102
Any plans for other platforms?
for the app or the keys?
for keys we support openai, google, bytedance, and wavespeed which is an aggregator that gives you access to most models.
if you are asking is Windows in the works, not near term. unless enough people ask i suppose.
great explainer video!
thanks! i have been trying to articulate why i built this, and in what ways the approach is fundamentally different.
I had a similar situation. Google really needs to improve its model usage and payment UX.
My solution was OpenRouter. Their dev and testing chat can generate images with Google models, and you can also run the same prompt side by side with other models. It’s very handy for casual image generation.
It's on Google Flow. For whatever reason, it's free and I've never hit a usage cap.
FYI: If you are willing to pay API rates AI studio supports using API keys. To do this on the slashed off key icon on the bottom left of the textbox and go through the process
Yeah I'm kinda in the same position. I pay for both One and Workspace for myself and not sure which to use for some of this stuff. I mostly default to my personal account since it has more context, but then bringing in stuff from the Workspace Drive/etc. is an extra few steps.
And some stuff like Project Genie is just flat out unavailable on Workspace which seems weird to me.
Yeah I've already got a game plan - move the email to proton & sign up for claude to replace gemini search/chat...which I do use heavily. Works out more expensive but claude pro seems to include a little coding agent usage too. Already have one of those (GLM) but a bit of anthropic allowance would be nice
The problem is extracting oneself from google is non-trivial. That must be a decade of emails...
Proton has a pretty good importer for GMail/Calendar/Contacts.
The downside is that their Android calendar app is shit (a rewrite should come later this year), and Android contact syncing doesn't exist (planned for 2027). Not sure how the situation looks on iOS, but AFAIK it's similar.
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I like the Migadu migration guide: install thunderbird, add both accounts, simply move the folder from one account to the other. Messy is the Google label system which tends to create dupes in thunderbird so you need to do some label cleanup first.