I built a $2/month Claude API — here's the exact curl command to use it

I built a $2/month Claude API — here's the exact curl command to use it Last year I got fed up paying $20/month for ChatGPT when I was barely using it. So I built my own Claude API proxy. It costs me under $2/month to run. Then I realized: other developers probably have this same problem. So I opened it up. Here's the exact curl command to use it: curl -X POST https://simplylouie.com/api/chat \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "model": "claude-sonnet-4-5", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain async/await in Python in 3 sentences"} ] }' That's it. You get Claude Sonnet. For $2/month. Why I built this I'm a developer in a country where $20/month is real money. ChatGPT at that price point felt extractive — designed for people in San Francisco, not the rest of the world. I built SimplyLouie as an experiment: what's the minimum viable Claude API proxy? Can I keep costs low enough to charge $2/month and still make it worthwhi