the key is: have a shared communal amount of credits, and it's first come, first served. calculate how much you can afford at max per day and that's it
i got burned by free trials in 2023 when people automated account creation to abuse the system, so i just dumped them altogether, but i think this variation is the sweet spot. thoughts?
it's way harder to implement in an existing system than when you're just getting started, so i recommend everyone consider this when building their next projects, especially if you bootstrap and probably can't afford free trials for everyone
the app in question is a midjourney-like image/video generator: maginary.ai