The Skyzai App Store is designed around usage and a visible publisher premium. Every app would also offer an own-API mode with zero app fee, in exchange for advertising and information sharing under terms still to be defined.
An app’s proposed business model
1
A publisher defines the service
Identify the app, eligible supply, permissions and support.
2
The user chooses an access mode
Agree cost limits and data terms before any work starts.
3
The app performs permitted work
Measure usage under the selected mode and accepted cost basis.
4
The exchange is visible
Show money, provider costs, advertising and data terms separately.
All proposed store apps integrate with Skyzai’s API. The publisher buys business services and delivers an application to consumers. The store direction requires two working access modes, rather than a nominal “free” button that cannot run the app.
Metered API + app premium
The consumer pays the app’s attributable Skyzai API cost for their operation plus its known publisher premium. There is no fixed app subscription in this direction.
The rate and eligible cost base are visible before use; the bill itemizes both afterwards. A publisher premium pays the app, before its own hosting, development, support and other expenses.
The user brings API access they are entitled to use. The app usage fee is zero. The underlying provider can still charge for inference or other use.
Advertising and the owner’s “total information sharing” direction are the proposed nonmonetary exchange. This requires defined terms before activation. The scope of supported own-API providers remains to be selected.
No duplicate inference charge should be disguised as an app fee.
Paid-mode data and advertising terms are also undecided. “Paid” alone does not establish an ad-free or private mode. Each mode needs a clear comparison and an exit path.
How the access mode changes the bill
In metered mode, the accepted terms determine which API costs and publisher premium apply when an attempt fails. In own-API mode, the app fee is zero; your provider’s usage and remedy terms still apply. A statement credit changes the amount recorded; it does not establish a cash refund.
“Total information sharing” records the owner’s ambition for the exchange. It is not yet a field-level permission contract. Access to an app cannot be treated as ambient permission to read accounts, devices, organisational data, private Cortex memory or other people’s information.
Before own-API sharing could operate
Record or decision
What it needs to say
Information
Exact categories and fields, including whether prompts, outputs, uploads, activity or profile records are in scope. None is authorized for collection by this list.
Recipients and purposes
Who receives each field; personalization, advertising, analytics, onward sharing and model training are separate decisions.
Retention and withdrawal
Retention period, revocation, deletion, export and the effect on access. Withdrawing must not silently start paid usage.
Third-party information
A user cannot establish everyone else’s permission to disclose their organisational, personal or confidential records.
Credentials
API keys, passwords and secrets stay outside advertising, analytics and information-sharing payloads. Credential scope and revocation remain separate.
What an app listing must disclose
Proposed publisher admission
Record or decision
What it needs to say
Publisher and purpose
A named publisher, support contact, intended work and exact Skyzai dependencies.
Both access modes
Supported credentials and functional paid/own-API paths; a placeholder does not qualify.
Price and spending controls
Known premium, eligible B2B cost base, accepted price version and estimate or maximum charge.
Failure and remedy
Retry, failed-run, cancellation, refund and billing-dispute treatment.
Mode-specific data terms
Advertising, sharing, recipients, consent choices and withdrawal.
Skyzai XaaS
Proposed direct publisher commitments for support, continuity, remedy and exit. Standard adoption and admission remain open.
Publisher admission, model/provider eligibility and proposed XaaS qualification are separate decisions; mandatory XaaS admission remains unselected. A technically reachable app does not establish available service capacity or accepted consumer terms.
apps.skyzai.com is the intended App Store address. This website documents the design; it does not claim a live store at that address.
The subscription-replacement hypothesis
The owner’s thesis is that software can move from fixed subscriptions to API usage with a known application premium, while commerce and advertising support wider access. This is a hypothesis to test, not a demonstrated end of SaaS.
A percentage premium creates its own tradeoff: falling API costs also reduce publisher revenue per operation, while avoidable retries can increase the cost base. Measure useful outcomes, failed-run costs, support, retention and contribution before treating the model as efficient.
Nudge could fund some free services through retained product sales. That is a separate seller-funded campaign allocation, not proof that every app or non-buying user is already funded. Store premiums, API supply costs, advertising proceeds and affiliate allocations must not be counted twice.
Keep the next decision attached to its record.
The publisher owns its app terms, premium and support. Provider charges, app failure, accepted output, information sharing and a corrected statement are separate decisions.