Tokenminning: low token plans maximize your output

Not sure if anyone else needs to hear this, but I realized recently that limiting my token use (opting for a low token plan), saves me money and encourages me to stay focused on my time.

At the start of a product development, I brain dump all the things I need to do before I can officially launch this feature. It ranges from product features, to marketing tasks, to legal tasks, etc.

I noticed that when I paid for the higher token plans, I spent wayyy more time adding features (and fixing bugs with those features) than I did on everything around a product launch.

I wanted to ensure my $200/mo is well spent, as well as vibe coding is wayyy more fun to me than designing marketing materials or writing blog posts.

When I lowered my plan to $20/mo, the “You’re out of Codex messages” forced me to be more thoughtful of how to use the limited tokens and made me allocate more time to everything around coding (marketing).

Instead of baby sitting 3-4 agents adding features (and bugs), once my usage limits hit, I switched to developing marketing materials, writing blog posts, and preparing for a launch. During this time, I did a more thorough QA to queue up the bugs for the next token session.

If you’re an indie hacker who hasn’t launched yet, try lowering your AI coding plan for a month and see what changes.





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