Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don’t have access to them anymore.

This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps.

I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time limit because claude has so many issues that month. And as soon as plan ended. I lost access to the credits. Even after resubscribing, I still don’t have access to those credits.

I have sympathies towards the engineers, especially the ones that are putting themselves on X. But only when someone with large following has some issue, they sort it out.

Having worked at a billing company, I can see how complex contracts sound good for the growth/sales folks but are also horrible for engineers actually implementing those contracts. Their complex rate limiting which is now a norm, identifying other harnesses to count them against extra usage are all probably not easy to implement without very rough edge cases. But all the “bugs” are just where the user gets screwed is what is problematic.

I just wanted to post this here, after tagging them multiple times on X to alert other users.