... Analyzed a day of token logs across an autonomous coding agent setup running on internal codebases. The raw count: 769M input tokens vs 7.4M output tokens (~104:1) . Because long agent runs re-read session history (files, AST diffs, test outputs) every turn, input costs accounted for ~95% of total spend. Optimizing output length turns out to be looking at the wrong variable. Three things actually saved us money: Routing: Shifted non-interactive workloads (evals, background analysis) to batch/flex ... ... channels. Billed at 0.5x list price with zero code logic changes. Cache Discipline: Kept system prompts strictly byte-stable (no top-level timestamps). Achieved

... Securing a badge (1st 3rd place) Why? 1. Being featured Just being featured already means visibility on Product Hunt s landing page. That s massive distribution on its own. 2. Top 10 That s a solid achievement. You also have a chance to be included in the Product Hunt newsletter. With around 140k readers. 3. Top 5 Products in the top 5 remain visible in the Previous launches section in the following days. That means continued organic traffic ... ... improvements Many people feel disappointed when they don t get first place. Maybe it s time to look at a launch as just one part of a broader marketing strategy, and focus on how to maximise what you DID achieve

... first and only marketer on this team. During my tenure, the marketing team has averaged 1.7 full-time employees. In other words, excluding interns, I've been working alone for quite a long time. Despite this, our team achieved significant results. We didn't use any agencies. All media operations were done in-house, including content creation. No agency wanted to take us on when we shared our goals, which were actually just slightly higher than our current results. This ... ... third. This generated many hypotheses, and to test them quickly, we produced and tested 3-4 video sets per day. Through various analyses and research, we created the most efficient templates and trained interns with them, enabling them to achieve

... feedback. We christened Sep 28 as Don t Sell. Solve Problems day and many endorsed this idea. We were happy to end at rank #9, just after the 8 featured products : #9 indicated the immense love we got vs a couple of hundred launches. Top (#1) among non-featured products was just great. Comments from the community/users, not just on launch day but also in few other threads in the launch week, showed the interest/approval for MarketFit that was exactly ... ... what we were looking for. So, the core goal was achieved

... traffic and people are more active, so it s a good time to discuss more complex topics, product-related discussions, solving problems, and providing insights. Product Forums Any time there's a product launch, update, new feature, or milestone achieved (when the milestone is achieved

... understand that you can't vote directly on the leaderboard during those 4 hours as the order is randomized to prevent fraud! Comment from Ashutosh Raj(@ashutosh_raj): These are goldmine of tips! It's great to see you achieve #1 :) Humbling to see that you still feel like this could have been even better haha. I'd achieved

... days to accomplish what we set for ourselves. Many people set yearly goals New Year's resolutions  but I believe quarterly goals are more sustainable and achievable. Can you share your goals and also results? I am pretty curious how your 1/4 of the year went. These were mine for Q1 and to be transparent, I am gonna rank them: Interview 2 guests for my YouTube channel I interviewed only one . Prepare for a 30-day YouTube challenge (write ... ... changed my direction). Read every day It was successful until the end of January. :D Stick to my exercising & learning habits (+ improve them) Cannot say that improved them but still stick to them. Grow each platform by 20% Achieved

... training cost of $600M DeepSeek s V-3 model is claimed to have been created within a budget of $6M. Interestingly, what took tech giants like Open AI and Google years to build is now claimed to have been achieved in 2 months, in a thousandth fraction of its cost. If we compare the infrastructure, DeepSeek is comparatively stronger. With over 685 parameters and a cluster of Expert MoE architecture, it seems like a better choice at first glance ... ... revolution has come to another level and is evolving at a much faster pace! Here are some of my takeaways. Firstly, since Deepseek has attached a number against its development, do we need 500 Billion funds to achieve

... created a platform to find a no-code developer in one click, share a project and get it developed in weeks, not years and for a very reasonable price. After 6 months of 24/7 work on WeLoveNoCode we achieved super cool growth: $80K MRR 30% MoM profitable from day one and keep growing super happy that WLNC was #1 on Product Hunt. I also closed a seed round recently and might have more cool news soon :) Before WeLoveNoCode, I built ...

... Fall is one of my favorite seasons, but it's also when most people can start feeling depression and lack of motivation. I decided to start an October achievements chain where other makers/founders/marketer/etc, can tell other a recent goal they achieved