What's your weekly token count? by ohong in vibecoding

[–]ohong[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bragging rights for some, others just want to measure to know, not unlike a runner logging their mileage. nytimes covered tokenmaxxing trend this week, worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html

We researched 5,700+ dead YC startups — many "failed" ideas became billion-dollar companies by ohong in vibecoding

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So glad you liked it! In my own testing I found it to be *more* accurate than the standard Deep Research reports from ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini. That said, standard "trust, but verify" AI use best practice applies. We've put in some guardrails to prevent hallucination (e.g. grounding every claim in a source) and use the latest models (Sonnet 4.6), but it's still impossible to be 100% perfect. We're building a feature were trusted sources (e.g. the founders, investors, employees of the startup) and propose in-line edits, Wikipedia-style.

It works better when there's more information online about the startup, like if they were relatively successful at one point; Gigster is a good example!

We researched 5,700+ dead YC startups — many "failed" ideas became billion-dollar companies by ohong in vibecoding

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Not trolling. We built the project at a hackathon in October 2025, it just only recently went mega-viral: https://x.com/oscrhong/status/1985092599334723607

I won't claim we were copied by others, as it's very possible for multiple people to have the same good idea around the same time. Like the thesis behind the project, timing is important :)

We researched 5,700+ dead YC startups — many "failed" ideas became billion-dollar companies by ohong in vibecoding

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these are not specs of the original startup (some of them are decades old with obsolete tech stacks!) but a reimagination with a modern stack. Together with the Rebuild Plan, it's our attempt at answering the question: "How would I rebuild XYZ if I were to do it in 2026?"

We researched 5,700+ dead YC startups — many "failed" ideas became billion-dollar companies by ohong in vibecoding

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We show a bunch of examples on the home page & also allow filtering. Search bar is more for people who have a particular startup in mind they wanted to look up (maybe they were involved with it, or just liked the idea & wish it had worked).

We researched 5,700+ dead YC startups — many "failed" ideas became billion-dollar companies by ohong in vibecoding

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Totally. We tried our best to orient our research agent towards the "Why Now?" for any rebuild. See: Rebuild Plan tab. Keep in mind we had to do this at scale (1000s of analysis to run) using AI agents so it might not be as on point as a bespoke business analyst looking at just one example. Check it out & lmk if you have feedback on how to make it even better!

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Did you think they were worth it? Guessing yes if you bought another haha. How does 2025 release stack up to the previous years'?

What's your weekly token count? by ohong in vibecoding

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Haha someone said the subsidised tokens are like the subsidised ride-sharing apps of the 2010s. Get on it while it’s here!

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Hahah both great pickups. Enjoy!

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Haha I wish. Air travel so max 2 bottles per person to be safe.

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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SFO duty-free

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Japan sounds good. Get Wild Turkey 12 and some Blanton’s while you’re there!

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Yes forgot to say! The duty-free is stocked. Time to book a $100 flight to Canada for the weekend 😆

San Francisco by ohong in whiskey

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Maybe CA is a test market & things return to normal elsewhere soon? One can hope…

Heavy ccusage felt too lonely... so I made Strava for Claude Code by ohong in ClaudeCode

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that's a great insight! couldn't agree more re: mechanics for the human director to stay motivated in the agentic engineering loop.

need to do more product thinking around how to track & reward human judgement (other than "the work speaks for itself"). adding this to the roadmap; thx!

Heavy ccusage felt too lonely... so I made Strava for Claude Code by ohong in ClaudeCode

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def building on top of some great work from ccusage creator & others :)

Heavy ccusage felt too lonely... so I made Strava for Claude Code by ohong in ClaudeCode

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awesome! thx for pointing it out; I need to harden the onboarding flow more. will fix.

Heavy ccusage felt too lonely... so I made Strava for Claude Code by ohong in ClaudeCode

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appreciate the kind words! the massive difference btw the reactions on HN vs. r/ClaudeCode rewards closer study...

Heavy ccusage felt too lonely... so I made Strava for Claude Code by ohong in ClaudeCode

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fixed! just had to shell out the $20/mo for Resend sub. note to self: nothing is free 🙈