Speaking at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 — The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products, in Yokohama

Tadashi Shigeoka, a developer at ROUTE06, spoke at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 on August 1, 2026, at Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College in Yokohama, in a session titled 'The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products.' The session covered AI usage with Stripe, cost management, pricing strategies, and revenue generation in AI product development, with an archive video to be uploaded to YouTube later.

Speaking at JP Stripes Connect 2026 — The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products, in Yokohama Tadashi Shigeoka /en/author/tadashi-shigeoka/ · Sat, August 1, 2026 On August 1, 2026, I attended JP Stripes Connect 2026 https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/ in person at Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College in Yokohama, and spoke at the track session The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/sessions/track-a-1610/ . JP Stripes Connect 2026、横浜にて現地参加してます — Tadashi Shigeoka @codenote net トークセッション「AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル」でお話させていただきます🎙️ https://t.co/pErp74vuaQ 会場を提供してくださった岩崎学園情報科学専門学校さま、本当にありがとうございます 🏫 JP Stripes pic.twitter.com/SpGDtgpR1e August 1, 2026 English translation of the tweet: Attending JP Stripes Connect 2026 in person in Yokohama I’ll be speaking at the track session “The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products.” 🎙️ Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue 🏫 JP Stripes akiroom and Kana Kitagawa Taiga shared snapshots of the session on X. トークセッション：AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル — akiroom @akiroom ROUTE06重岡さん & ABEJA村主さんのセッション JP Stripes https://t.co/rNOUk1wxLf pic.twitter.com/BcsDDaw5ZT August 1, 2026 English translation of the tweet: Track session: The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products. A session by Shigeoka from ROUTE06 & Murasu from ABEJA. JP Stripes — Kana Kitagawa/たいがー🐯 @knuna t JP Stripes トークセッション始まった pic.twitter.com/H3tJKBuDvr August 1, 2026 English translation of the tweet: JP Stripes The track session has started Session Themes The session covered the following themes. - Q1. How are you using AI and Stripe inside your product? - Q2. What are you doing on the cost side when using AI? - Q3. What are you thinking about when it comes to pricing? - Q4. In the AI era, what do you think really matters in product development to actually generate revenue? The archive video will be uploaded to YouTube at a later date, so I’ll leave the specifics of what was discussed to that. After-party After the session, in addition to the official after-party organized by the event, informal 2nd and 3rd after-parties nijikai and sanjikai gave us plenty of time to talk with attendees. Hidetaka shared the moment on X. Thank you. — Hidetaka@SaaS Dev Stripe / AWS / etc.. @hidetaka dev jp stripes 二次会＆3次会 pic.twitter.com/17Y6eVdHDN August 1, 2026 English translation of the tweet: jp stripes Nijikai 2nd after-party & 3rd after-party Final Notes Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue, to the JP Stripes community organizers, to all the sponsors, to the Stripe team, and to everyone I got to talk with at the venue on the day. That’s all from speaking at JP Stripes Connect 2026 on the reality of building and billing AI products, from the Gemba. References The list of URLs I referenced during the track session. JP Stripes Connect 2026 https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/ The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products session page https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/sessions/track-a-1610/ ROUTE06, Inc. https://route06.com/gl Giselle - Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/products/giselle Token billing for LLMs | Stripe Docs https://docs.stripe.com/billing/token-billing Usage-based billing software for AI | Metronome, a Stripe product https://stripe.com/billing/usage-based-billing Acsim - AI Requirements Definition Platform https://ai.acsim.app/ Acsim Test launches: AI-driven end-to-end automation of the testing process https://ai.acsim.app/news/acsim-test-release-2026 Hono - Web framework built on Web Standards https://hono.dev/ AI Gateway - Vercel https://vercel.com/ai-gateway AI Gateway | Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/ai-gateway/ Prompt caching for faster model inference - Amazon Bedrock https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/prompt-caching.html Prompt caching | OpenAI API https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-caching Prompt caching - Claude Platform Docs https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching JP Stripes Connect 2026 opens in Yokohama with AI monetization as its theme https://x.com/i/trending/2083404903469490556