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by nine_k20 hours ago |
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upvoteby geir_isene20 hours ago|
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I'm on Claude Max, so it didn't cost me anything more than the subscription I already have. Had to use it for Something. As for time - for the full CHasm and Fe2O3 suite of sw, I started the work 2026-03-29 and have probably spent 60h or so of my time. But then again I have a very tailored CC setup that I have fine-tuned since last summer with more than 70 CC projects helping me get it the way I need it to be since then.
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upvoteby nine_k20 hours ago|
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So, it's at most $400 in Claude expenses for a fully custom suite of software in 2 months. Even if your time is 300/h, it's less than $2k in your own time (which, I would expect, you enjoyed spending). That's insanely impressive.
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upvoteby luqtas23 minutes ago|
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> That's insanely impressive.

literally every app they need, except the browser, at least have 10 alternatives that are FOSS, much more mature, better structured and prone to be bug free... or do you really think the OP with months/years of use won't need some other feature and will re-invent the wheel on software that is around for more than a decade with hundreds of bug reports done (i3 wm was released in 2009)

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upvoteby geir_isene19 hours ago|
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I need Claude Max in any case for my work, so the cost is effectively null. And I do creative stuff in my spare time regardless, and I don't really think about my hourly rate when I play with my kids either ;)
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upvoteby robotresearcher18 hours ago|
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Did you miss a factor of 10 in that time-cost calculation?

As a hobby, normal rates don’t apply, but just not to be misleading on the equivalent cost.

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upvoteby nine_k17 hours ago|
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Indeed, I forgot it. Must be $10-20k worth of human engineering time.
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upvoteby chickensong4 hours ago|
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Interested to hear about your CC setup if you'd like to share.
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upvoteby linsomniac9 hours ago|
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@geir_isene: This is insanely cool, thanks for writing about it.
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upvoteby topaz015 hours ago|
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Do you know how much it would have been at API prices?
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upvoteby boesboes6 hours ago|
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Can't speak for their usage, but I calculated my token use with Copilot, my employer paid 22$ for >2000$ in tokens. Given estimates margins, Github is paying 98-99% of the costs for us. I imagine Claude max etc is similar. So it's not sustainable at all
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upvoteby geir_isene7 hours ago|
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No idea. Probably quite expensive. I usually run 4-5 concurrent CC sessions, so hard to pinpoint for just CHasm and Fe2O3
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upvoteby theshrike796 hours ago|
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My irccloud.com subscription is about 60€/year.

I've spent two weeks with the cheapest tiers of Claude Pro + pi.dev+GPT-5.5 (+ some deepseek-v4 via openrouter recently) to create my own bespoke version.

I'm at 90% feature parity currently and surpassed on some levels. For ~20€-ish I've soon replaced a 60€/year subscription service.

I haven't spent a single second thinking about how someone else might run it, it doesn't have logins, security or anything - because I'm going to run it 100% behind a Tailscale node with no external access. The release and deployment processes are exactly how I like it, other people might not. I don't need to care, it's mine =)

A few months ago I did the same with Hazel[0]. That took maybe one evening to get an MVP and a week of casual updates to make it pretty. Now I have my own macOS application that does the exact things I needed Hazel for. It's mine forever and I can add or remove features as I feel like it.

[0] https://www.noodlesoft.com/whats-new-in-hazel-6/

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