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been working on Wensity UI for a while and finally launched it.

it's a collection of animated components and blocks for when the default shadcn look isn't enough.

would genuinely love to know what you think about the components and the overall direction 👀

check launch post : https://x.com/Ksparth12/status/2073775795160723482?s=20 or direcly : ui.wensity.com

wensity ui

been working on Wensity UI for a while and finally launched it.

the goal is to build components that feel a little different from the usual UI libraries. would love some feedback from React devs here.

check launch video : https://x.com/Ksparth12/status/2073775795160723482?s=20 or direcly : ui.wensity.com

wensity-ui

been working on Wensity UI for a while and finally launched it.

the goal is to build components that feel a little different from the usual UI libraries. would love some feedback from React devs here.

ui.wensity.com

adsense site status

TL;DR: My first basic site got AdSense approval on the 3rd attempt with almost no SEO, very low traffic and heavy client-side JS. Later I built Rune with 50+ tools, much better SEO, UX and technical setup, but kept getting rejected for "low value content" around 7 times. I even tried adding articles, deleted them after realising I was just pushing AI garbage, got approved by Carbon Ads instead and mostly gave up on AdSense. I kept improving and launching Rune without doing anything specifically for AdSense, applied again and finally got approved. My main point is that you shouldn't depend only on AdSense, keep improving the actual site and keep reapplying.

A long time back, around August 2025, I wanted to build something of my own which was actually helpful for me and maybe other people too.

I created a pretty basic application. I didn't care about SEO, how Googlebot sees my site, how AdSense sees it or anything like that. The app was mostly client side, had heavy JS and I even added a subscription.

People were using it, but no one was buying the subscription because the free tier was already generous enough.

So I thought okay, maybe I should try ads.

I created an AdSense account and applied. Got rejected twice for different small issues. The funny thing is those rejections used to come in like 5-7 days.

On my third attempt, the site got approved.

I wasn't happy or sad because at that time I genuinely had no idea how hard getting AdSense approval can be these days.

Later, after seeing people actually use the app, I decided I wanted to build something much better. Something I could monetize using both subscriptions and ads and as Im in well in tech and already did many freelance work, I knew how to build scalable webapps,

That's when I started Rune.

I added 50+ developer tools(at that time), worked heavily on SEO, kept the UI/UX clean, hosted it on Vercel and even used Redis caching for some user information to keep things fast.

Applied to AdSense.

"Low value content."

That was the first time this rejection actually hurt because I had put significantly more work into Rune than my previous site which AdSense approved without much effort.

I thought maybe it needed more content, so I started publishing articles.

Applied again.

"Low value content."

And unlike my old site, every rejection was now taking around 15 days, sometimes even close to a month.

Then I built RuneHub, another content platform inside Rune, and published tech articles there too.

Rejected again.

By around my fifth rejection, I started losing hope. My rankings were also dropping and I realised I was basically pushing AI-written garbage on the web just because I thought AdSense wanted "content."

I felt bad about it and deleted those articles.

At that point I had mostly given up on AdSense.

I went back to working on the actual product.

I properly fixed the technical SEO, improved how all the platforms worked together using subdirectories and Next.js, and built more useful parts of Rune like Rune Career and Rune Learn.

The technical side is a much longer story, so I won't go too deep into it here.

I then applied to both Carbon Ads and AdSense.

After around 15 days, someone from Carbon asked me for traffic details and proof. I provided everything and around 30 days later Rune was approved.

AdSense rejected me again.

"Low value content."

My niche is mostly tech and education, so I thought Carbon Ads probably made more sense anyway. I implemented Carbon properly across Rune and it was doing fine.

I applied to AdSense again without expecting much.

Rejected again for low value content.

I didn't really care this time because Carbon was already running.

Then I applied for the seventh time with some more features (as rune's viewers was growing very fast , thanks to the SEO,AEO and GEO which I did), and after applying time .

Approved 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

And the obvious question is, what did I change before the approval?

Nothing special.

I kept improving the product like I was already doing. I launched Rune in more places, organic search traffic increased and I kept improving the UI and especially the UX, including how easily bots and users can understand and navigate the site.

That's basically it.

You can see how I finally placed the ads on Rune here:

https://rune.codes/tools/pdf/pdf-merge
https://rune.codes/hub/python/install-python-on-your-computer
https://rune.codes/hub/tech-trends/top-5-emerging-programming-languages-every-developer-should-watch

A few things I learned from this whole thing:

• Don't assume SEO or traffic automatically gets you AdSense approval. The first site in my screenshot, (which i blurred) , got approved with almost no SEO. It was mostly client side, heavy on JS and sometimes had 50-100 views a week or even less. A lot of those views were probably me because I used the app for my own work.
• Don't depend completely on AdSense approval. Apply to Carbon Ads, Mediavine or other networks if your traffic and niche fit them. If your traffic isn't there yet, work on that first. Even seeing a small amount of ad revenue can give you motivation to keep improving the product.
• I think backlinks and actually launching your product matter more than people realise. Post it on Product Hunt, X, LinkedIn and relevant communities. I have no proof that this directly affects AdSense approval, but I would still rather have real mentions and real users than keep adding random articles hoping an AdSense bot changes its mind.
• Keep improving everything. SEO, UX, navigation and the actual usefulness of the site. Don't make changes only for AdSense. Make the product genuinely better while you wait.
• Keep applying. I've seen people get approved after being rejected for the exact same "low value content" reason without making any major change. After around 7 rejections, that was basically my experience too.

small note: I'm in tech and have spent way too much time dealing with SEO, low impressions, technical SEO, metadata, JSON-LD, UI/UX, frontend and even large backend systems while building my own products. If you're stuck with low impressions or want someone to look at your site and tell you what's technically wrong, feel free to DM me. I'm happy to help or properly audit/fix things for a minimal cost.

Also, Rune has become much bigger than I initially planned and now has a lot of people using the tools and reading things daily. I also have another SaaS which is doing pretty well, so handling all the content myself is becoming difficult.

I actually built my own content management system and admin panel for Rune, so articles and other content can be directly written and pushed from there instead of dealing with third-party services. I'm thinking of hiring a few interns to help me with technical content writing through that system. If you have prior experience writing content, understand technical topics and are looking for an internship, you can DM me too.

Last month I was on the $200 Codex plan and got a ton of work done. Finished multiple client projects and most of the major features I wanted to build for my own products. I never really had any issues with the limits.

The only thing that kept bothering me was the UI/front-end side. Codex is great overall, but I found Claude much better for UI work.

So this month I switched to the $20 plans for both Codex and Claude Code with $60 on cursor (for fable 5 and composer 2.5) since I won't be coding nearly as much.

One thing that genuinely surprised me is how much better Claude Code's limits feel now. Two months ago I remember hitting limits much sooner, but now it feels like I can get a lot more done before running into them.

I'm mostly using Sonnet 5, giving it very specific prompts, the exact files it should edit, and clear context instead of letting it figure everything out. That workflow has been working really well for me.

Has anyone else noticed that Claude Code's limits feel more generous lately, or is it just because of the way I'm using it?

I have been experimenting with different ai coding setups over the past few months and need any tips or better combination which u have tried...

last month I mainly used the $200 codex plan with $20 cursor and $20 claude code.

this month i'm trying something different: $20 codex, $20 claude code, $20 kimi 2.7 and putting the rest of the budget into cursor(60 dollar).

i'm trying to figure out which combination gives the best value for day-to-day software development.

if you've tried different combinations, what ended up working best for you?

https://preview.redd.it/7naengk7kiah1.png?width=1182&format=png&auto=webp&s=f7555b2944b0ee44d3b7883b60d28407e80cb070

Anthropic just announced that the export controls have been lifted and they'll begin restoring access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 tomorrow.

I've mostly been using Codex GPT-5.5 lately, but I'm curious to see how Fable 5 performs once it's back.

For those of you who used it before, how did it compare for coding and long-context work?

Will you be switching back, or have you already settled on another model?

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i've seen a lot of people saying they're running into the usage limits on the $200 codex plan much sooner than expected.

i started using codex 32 days ago and only just checked my stats. somehow i'm already at 6.76 billion lifetime tokens with a peak day of 589 million tokens.

i wasn't expecting the numbers to be anywhere near this high, but codex has basically become my main way of building everything.

i'm curious what everyone else's usage looks like. are you hitting the limits? how many tokens have you gone through so far, and what are you mostly using it for?

hey everyone,

long story short, i'm starting my own web design and development agency.

a few years ago i used to freelance, then shifted my focus to building my own SaaS products. now i'm back, but this time with my own agency.

i'm not here to ask for clients or your money. i simply want to help founders and builders who want a second opinion on their product. if you need feedback on your design, UI/UX, web architecture, user flows, SEO, performance, or conversions, just drop your product in the comments or send me a DM. i'll review it and share everything i'd improve, completely free.

if you find my feedback valuable, all i ask in return is a short testimonial and permission to link your website and socials as part of my agency page.

and if, after that, you want me to redesign your product, improve the UI/UX, clean up your codebase, make it more scalable, add new features, or build something from scratch, i'd be happy to help. that part would be paid, but only if you genuinely like my advice or loved my work and want to work together.

no catch, no hidden conditions. just looking to help a few people while building my agency.

Tried Fable 5 in production.

Honestly, the only way Codex 5.6/6 beats it is by getting much better at frontend.

For backend, Fable feels around Codex 5.5 level. But for frontend, it’s ahead of every model I’ve tried so far.

I've bought Copilot when it was request-based, I've bought it after the usage-based changes, I've paid for Claude Code, and now I'm using Codex.

One thing that has always frustrated me with coding AI subscriptions is that feeling of constantly watching the meter.

With the new $39 Copilot pack, I managed to burn through the entire thing in a single session. The funny part is that I didn't even get anywhere near a 1M context window before it was gone. My reaction was basically: "Wait... that's it?"

I had a similar experience with Claude. Back when I was on the $200 plan, I remember giving Opus a large task and watching a huge chunk of my quota disappear. At times it felt like one ambitious prompt could consume an entire 5-hour window. The model was incredible, but I always had that feeling in the back of my mind that I needed to be careful with usage.

Then I started using Codex.

I'm currently on the $200 plan, working across multiple repositories, multiple branches, and multiple agents at the same time. These aren't toy projects either ;I'm talking about real production codebases, feature work, bug fixing, refactors, and the kind of tasks you'd normally expect to chew through limits quickly.

After three days of fairly heavy usage, I had only used around 40% of my weekly limit. Then today the limit reset.

For the first time in a long while, I wasn't thinking about usage. I was just working.

What's interesting is that I don't even think this is purely about model intelligence. Claude Opus still feels phenomenal for documentation, planning, architecture discussions, UI/UX thinking, and generating large files from scratch. There are moments where Opus genuinely feels unmatched.

But when it comes to opening an existing codebase and saying, "Go fix this bug," or "Implement this feature," or "Make these changes across the repo and don't break anything," Codex has been the most satisfying experience I've had so far.

The code quality feels more reliable, the editing workflow feels more natural, and the overall experience feels closer to having an actual engineering teammate than a model that occasionally writes code.

Maybe I'm still in the honeymoon phase, but this is the first $200 AI subscription where I've looked at my usage and thought:

"Yeah, this actually feels worth the money."

Has anyone else used Copilot, Claude, and Codex extensively and come away with a similar conclusion?

As expected. The Boys spent seasons building Homelander into one of the greatest villains ever just to end him like THAT.

Butcher on V1 somehow weaker than previous versions.
Homelander still has superspeed but stands there and gets grabbed by the parasite/tentacle thing from Butcher’s stomach??
Characters acting dumb for plot convenience the entire finale.

Actually ruined the show for me.