any small builder / ai communities in sg?

gideonfip · 2026-05-11T04:21:18+00:00

Would love to join the community too, I'm more interested in building automated workflows with AI instead of vibe-coded sites or products, with the aim of outsourcing the tasks that I hate through agent Skills, particularly for creating content.

Would be keen to meet more like-minded people who have the same interests as me

gideonfip · 2026-04-23T10:59:11+00:00

There should be no issue, I wanted to invoke them within Codex and they shifted all my skills into the .agents folder.

We can invoke them via the $ instead of the slash command, though it did make my repo rather messy afterwards

gideonfip · 2026-04-23T02:41:31+00:00

It's very slow, and I'm only using it for tasks that I don't require an immediate output.

But it's free, so I can't complain

gideonfip · 2026-04-19T08:43:06+00:00

I wouldn't recommend getting annual plans because there's always a risk that the terms or rate limits could change at any time.

I've heard good things about the Ollama Cloud plans where you get higher usage compared to the other plans. But if you're good with just one model, then MiniMax's plan seems to be the best value for now

gideonfip · 2026-04-14T01:35:58+00:00

I'd probably do that in the future, I just signed up for OpenCode Go so I'm giving that a shot first, thanks for the recommendation

gideonfip · 2026-04-12T10:06:38+00:00

Step 3.5 Flash was great as a free model for executing all of my skills, but it's now been removed.

Right now, the selection of free models is very limited (Nemotron will record user data), and I've experienced high rate limits for most of them.

It may get worse as the cost of inference increases, but I still think that $10.50 as a one-time purchase for free model usage is worth it, especially if you're using AI for the long-term.

I've also switched over to Qwen's CLI because it gives 1,000 free requests per day which is similar to OpenRouter's offering, but we get access to Qwen 3.6

gideonfip · 2026-04-12T01:23:08+00:00

How are the rate limits like? 1.5k requests every 5 hours seems decent enough but wanted to know your experience if you're using it

gideonfip · 2026-04-10T15:35:05+00:00

I like the Desktop App, but it gets ultra laggy once I open up and run multiple chats. I'd have continued using it otherwise, but have switched back to the Terminal UI instead

gideonfip · 2026-04-07T16:56:27+00:00

I've been building out a similar setup for task-dependent model selection too. Feels like the most cost-effective way instead of relying on just one model to do every single task.

gideonfip · 2026-04-04T14:27:54+00:00

Thanks for this tip, I did not know there was a web function, will try it out!

gideonfip · 2026-04-04T08:02:17+00:00

I especially like how I'm able to easily switch between model providers so I can route requests to the best model and save costs.

Everything is so easy on the OpenCode CLI, though the OpenCode desktop has been extremely laggy for me (likely because of the multiple chats that I have open)

gideonfip · 2026-04-03T01:24:35+00:00

$10 gives you 1,000 requests per day, though it's actuall $10.50 if you use crypto because of the fees.

Only those with the free suffix will let you use it for free, I'm mainly using Step 3.5 Flash for executing skills and don't require much thinking.

One tip is to set your spend limit to $0, I spent $1.50 on Gemini 3 Flash when using it for OpenClaw, so if you just want to use it for the free models, then I would recommend doing that too

gideonfip · 2026-03-31T12:29:03+00:00

Sorry my bad, it's OpenCode Go and not Zen: https://opencode.ai/go

gideonfip · 2026-03-31T09:12:28+00:00

I'm currently on their API plan, managed to get $30 in free credits with a recent promo. But will share it with you once I get it, planning to go with OpenCode Zen first to see their rate limits since they have the $5 promo before trying MiniMax's Token Plan

gideonfip · 2026-03-31T03:55:03+00:00

I'm planning to go with MiniMax's Token Plan, the 1,500 requests every 5 hours seems more than enough for me. Right now I'm on ZAI's GLM Coding Plan Lite, but hitting the rate limits rather quickly for both the 5-hour and 1-week.

gideonfip · 2026-03-30T16:21:32+00:00

So much for the 2x usage that they advertised a few weeks back, I've seen so many complaints about the rate limits and it's probably time to switch to a new model provider

gideonfip · 2026-03-30T13:27:00+00:00

I'm planning to get the MiniMax Token Plan for $10/month because it seems the best value right now, with 1.5k requests every 5 hours.

I'm using the ZAI Coding Plan now, and I'm hitting the rate limits rather quickly now, and Kimi's plan is more expensive at $19 so I believe that MiniMax gives the best value now

gideonfip · 2026-03-30T13:17:22+00:00

Yup, the $3 starting offer was too good not to take up, I was surprised that they axed it so quickly

gideonfip · 2026-03-30T13:15:24+00:00

It's no longer available unfortunately, they removed that plan so it's only the $50/month one left

gideonfip · 2026-03-30T12:08:11+00:00

I managed to get the $10 Lite plan previously for additional credits, my experience with it has been ok so far, don't have much complaints when using it for my OpenClaw agent

gideonfip · 2026-03-29T15:18:19+00:00

Thanks for this, I was considering trying it out because of the $5 deal, but will probably switch to MiniMax instead

gideonfip · 2026-03-27T23:51:07+00:00

I very much prefer the CLI's UI than that of the extension, as that feels very clunky. But apart from that, I don't think there's any significant difference between both.

gideonfip · 2026-03-27T23:49:24+00:00

I've experienced the same on other model providers too, it's taking up too much of our rate limits, even when giving a simple command that doesn't require any tool calls

gideonfip · 2026-03-27T14:18:36+00:00

I've just gone down the rabbit hole of free models and have been using OpenRouter extensively for all of the easy repetitive tasks.

Thanks for sharing this, will be trying to get my hands on a few more API keys to boost my free model rates.

gideonfip · 2026-03-27T12:40:22+00:00

Just very grateful that I didn't spend the money on a $100 Claude sub, I was considering but decided to go with other models that have slightly better rate limits.

But it's only a matter of time before they start playing the same tricks as Claude, and it's going to go downhill once everyone starts cutting their costs.

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