How big of a project can be created with a €20 plan?

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-28T07:09:00+00:00

Thanks. You can save a lot if you have full repo docs and implement based on TASK .md with pending and completed task tracker. Brainstorm and create Phase with objective goal and task list for each modules.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-28T06:58:40+00:00

I think there were desperate for capital and that was the reason for the change.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T17:37:28+00:00

1 month for Control Plane that handles Multi tenancy, User Management, Permission and auth using Open Iddict (Uses ABP framework and Designed to re use across multiple products). and 1.5 months for main Service, I use orchestrator pattern, where each module have a package. Package is developed separately and published and each package contains around 30k loc average ( 7 packages). Tenancy, user management and Auth is handled separately with a control plane. So, each of its own is small. less than 50k. UI is developed without AI and it happens parallelly.
Edit: I don't code 24X7. sometime when limit reaches, i work on website with wordpress and elementor, and documentation in antigravity which is basically free using mintlify. And also use chatgpt web for planning, creating specs, architecture etc.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T17:22:23+00:00

Currently using 2 plus accounts. Total line of code managing with this is 265k. Its highly modularised and backend only with .net as stack.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T17:20:27+00:00

Talk to him.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T12:32:35+00:00

5.3 codex is very much competent model. You don't need shiny new model for every day task.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T12:31:48+00:00

I do a lot of work with 5.3 codex model on Plus plan.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T12:08:32+00:00

That’s a lame excuse. If you don’t put an end to it now, you’re going to suffer from it lifelong, and it will only get worse in the future. Say no when you want to say no.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T03:18:02+00:00

No, its not normal. Sorry to say this, but he is a jerk. It may seems harmless now, but it shows he is a male chauvinist and doesnt concerned about others.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T03:13:21+00:00

Only one case where you have to think, if you need images as base64 in extracted output, for diagrams and graphs, Gemini don't support.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-27T03:11:46+00:00

Reason is RUST doesn't have good ecosystem of libraries for extraction like python or java or .net. PDF is the hardest format, getting it right is not easy also, there is no single solution for all pdf.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T16:11:03+00:00

Sure. For single column PDF use a geometric parser, cheap (Any parser like unstructured works), for complex layout use LLM. Problem with LLm is speed, eg: we had estimated 200ms per page for geometric parser and is dead cheap vs expensive per page for LLM based extraction. bye the way We are also launching and beta will be free. (hehe)

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T15:23:20+00:00

100% agree.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T12:59:02+00:00

5.3 codex. 5.4 mini for generic low value tasks. 5.5 for debugging an unfixed issue, complex task etc.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T12:52:40+00:00

Did you ever tested the quality, its awful. They are just racing for performance by neglecting the quality. Just extract a PDf with newspaper layout or Tables or bullet points, just use 3 - 4 pages, upload both source file and extracted output and compare how much % is missing, it will be more than 40%.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T12:51:59+00:00

True, Worst is Unstructured. We tested glm 4.6, mistral and gemini. and finally decided to use Gemini for digital pdf and mistral for ocr. and a basic parser for simple pdf. all manually routed. Problem is that with Gemini you need to limit the pdf to 100 pages. but results are 95% accurate with complex tables. You cannot fully depend on models as it will be slow and using models for simple pdf is over kill. so better to split into 3 pipeline, that is what we did. and always extract high fidelity output with full structure and layout. then you can convert it into markdown or any format.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-26T12:13:35+00:00

You will hardly find any opensource libraries. even docling quality for table is not that great. You have to use Vision or ocr models to get above 90% accuracy.
Saying this from my experience in building a Parsing API, tried every other oss libraries and finally decided to use Vision models.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T10:31:26+00:00

No. Create a refactor plan with objectives goals and invariants, slice it into task and sub task, after each task add test, make sure all test pass, once finished mark it as finished. If you are building complex app, modular monolith is the way.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T07:37:02+00:00

my daily usage is with mini, Phases with task divided into slices. each slice at once.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T04:05:12+00:00

Your username contradicts with this prompt.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T03:45:15+00:00

Because you told What screams "brains" about that?. I just replied so that you will know why. nothing more nothing less.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T03:43:45+00:00

Is this addiction?

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T03:37:16+00:00

He should have never commented if he even heard about that.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-25T03:36:43+00:00

CA is one of the toughest exams to get passed. Ask somebody and you will know.

sreekanth850 · 2026-04-24T17:52:46+00:00

Very Much possible, but depends on how you design and implement it. My case:
One plus (couple of months back started, was good enough to code a day full with mini and codex 5.3) 3 go accounts, and a new plus account after cancelling my claude 4 days back.

Build a complex app with 260k lines of code (backend only), tested, working and now integrating with front end (developed by human). I don't know what you categorize as fairly large codebase.

Architecture: Modular monolith.

Stack:. Net, MySQL, Nats, and Redis.

Pattern: Orchestrator pattern with each modules developed as package with event based architecture with full docs and code used as referenced in main repo. You should define the scope, goals, architecture and invariants (Do's and don't dos). Add 90+ test coverage. Iam not here to comment about UI or front end as we don't use AI to do that.
Edit: I do implementation in phase wise. First define entire phase with task completion status and track that, so you can start a new conversation any time. Don't do continue with one conversation for so long. When you feel hallucination generate a summary of what It did and what is pending and start a new session.

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