What's the most money you've wasted on a side project that went nowhere?
Domains, hosting, APIs, tools, courses. Real numbers only.
Drop it.
Domains, hosting, APIs, tools, courses. Real numbers only.
Drop it.
Built this out of frustration. Every time I tried to prototype something, I ended up with a pile of API keys, dashboards, and billing setups open at the same time.
So I put together one API gateway with one base URL and one key, then switched between GPT-5.5, Grok 4.2, DeepSeek V4, and Llama without touching anything else.
Prepaid credits, no subscriptions, per-request usage logs so you know where your money went.
I’m not trying to hype it up. I want the real criticism.
What would actually stop you from using this?
What feels pointless, what feels useful, and what would make you trust it or not?
Built this out of frustration. Every time I tried to prototype something, I ended up with a pile of API keys, dashboards, and billing setups open at the same time.
So I put together one API gateway with one base URL and one key, then switched between GPT-5.5, Grok 4.2, DeepSeek V4, and Llama without touching anything else.
Prepaid credits, no subscriptions, per-request usage logs so you know where your money went.
I’m not trying to hype it up. I want the real criticism.
What would actually stop you from using this?
What feels pointless, what feels useful, and what would make you trust it or not?
I kept hitting the same annoying wall: different keys, different dashboards, different billing, and way too much setup just to try the models I actually wanted.
So I built one API gateway where you use a single base URL and one key, then call GPT, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Llama from the same place.
What I wanted was simple: less setup, more control, and no surprise spend. It runs on prepaid credits and shows usage logs, so you know where things are going instead of guessing later.
The point wasn’t to make another wrapper. It was to make model access feel less fragmented and less annoying.
I’m not trying to hype it up — I’d rather hear honest reactions, questions, and suggestions.
What feels useful?
What feels missing?
Would you actually use this in a real project?
Not the polished origin story. The real one.
What are you building, how did the idea actually come to you, and did you ever genuinely think it would go anywhere or were you just winging it?
And if you've made money from it, what was the moment it clicked? If you haven't, what's keeping you going?
One piece of advice or tip you'd actually give someone starting out right now. Go.
Not the polished origin story. The real one.
What are you building, how did the idea actually come to you, and did you ever genuinely think it would go anywhere or were you just winging it?
And if you've made money from it, what was the moment it clicked? If you haven't, what's keeping you going?
One piece of advice or tip you'd actually give someone starting out right now. Go.
Genuinely curious if anyone else does this.
Like if Claude wrote something and it's broken, telling it "this was written by GPT" and asking it to fix it. Does it actually perform differently or is that just placebo?
And does it work the other way too, telling GPT that Claude wrote it?
Tried it a few times and felt like it changed something but not sure if I'm imagining it.
Link, screenshot, whatever you got. Just show the thing.
Link, screenshot, whatever you got. Just show the thing.
Genuinely asking because I have Gemini credits just sitting there unused.
Tried it once, it wrecked my code, never opened it again. Been on Claude since and it's been fine.
But everyone keeps saying Gemini is better for UI/UX stuff specifically. Is that actually true or is it just people repeating things they heard?
Anyone switched between both? What do you actually use each one for?
The wins are everywhere. Nobody talks about the losses.
Dropped $200 on a domain and hosting for something nobody used. Pushed an API key to GitHub and had to scramble. Built for 3 months and launched to silence. We've all been there.
So drop it:
What's the worst mistake you made while building?
What did it cost you, money, time, motivation?
How did you recover or did you just move on?
And for the new people just starting out, what tools, GitHub repos, templates, or habits actually kept you safe and sane?
Real talk only. The more specific the better.
No sugarcoating. Real numbers only.
How long you've been at it, what you've spent on tools, APIs, hosting, domains, all of it. What you've made back. And if you're in the red, by how much.
Also what actually worked, what was a complete waste of money, and what would you tell yourself on day one.
Drop your numbers. We're all adults here.
Not the polished stuff. The weird, specific, "why did I even build this" automations that somehow just work.
Drop it.
No writeups needed, no pitch deck energy.
Just drop:
Link (live demo, GitHub, whatever works)
What it does in one or two sentences
What's still rough or half-baked
What kind of feedback you actually want (testers, feature ideas, roasting, collab)
Vibe coders don't gate-keep. Share the thing.