Top visitors to a zero-user hobby project: Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI crawlers
zeeg · x · 2026-09-09
A developer found that the top three users of his hobby project—with zero real users—are Amazon, Anthropic and OpenAI, and the next 10 are mostly AI crawlers from China. His tongue-in-cheek proposal: send all bandwidth and compute charges to model vendors going forward. The post highlights how AI crawlers eat into small sites' traffic and costs.
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