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Show HN: Reduce Claude Code token usage ~50% with Headroom

extraheadroom.com
2 points·by gghootch·tháng trước·0 comments

Show HN: Headroom – Get 2x Claude Code usage by optimizing input data

extraheadroom.com
2 points·by gghootch·3 tháng trước·0 comments

Some Tech Publications Consistently Score Products 5–7 Points Higher Than Others

criticaster.com
1 points·by gghootch·4 tháng trước·0 comments

The More You Spend on a Wi-Fi Router, the Worse It Gets

criticaster.com
2 points·by gghootch·4 tháng trước·10 comments

iRobot Went Bankrupt. Its Product Scores Explain Why

criticaster.com
7 points·by gghootch·5 tháng trước·0 comments

How Criticaster Works

criticaster.com
1 points·by gghootch·5 tháng trước·0 comments

Show HN: Analyzing ~10k professional product reviews to calculate a single score

criticaster.com
4 points·by gghootch·5 tháng trước·1 comments

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gghootch
·26 ngày trước·discuss
I'm working on Nommer - an app that turns recipes created for 1 chef into 2-player mode so you can cook together.

https://nommer.ai/ has a waitlist, planning to ship v1 by end of month.
gghootch
·2 tháng trước·discuss
https://extraheadroom.com

Menu bar app that reduces your Claude Code token costs by ~50% so you get 2x more usage out of your plan.

People seem to like it so far :-)
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Thanks for sharing your experiences. We incorporated changes in the latest version to improve this:

1. On install we explain what Headroom installs 2. We added an uninstall feature that removes all of this for you 3. On quit of the app, we immediately remove all items that may intervene with normal Claude Code behavior
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Thanks for the feedback, will work on making this more transparent so future users do not have this experience.

I did want to call out that headroom is not based on RTK - it includes RTK sure, but headroom cli has a lot more going on under the hood. For more see https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Way better. You don’t notice it’s there.
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Caveman is fun, but the real tool you want to reduce token usage is headroom

https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop (mac app)

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom (cli)
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo.

Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are

https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill
gghootch
·3 tháng trước·discuss
What does this have to do with OpenClaw exactly?
gghootch
·4 tháng trước·discuss
I regularly consume articles by whathifi, wirecutter, rtings, etcetera. Do you consider all of those spam?

What do you base purchase decisions on?
gghootch
·4 tháng trước·discuss
The best ones write in depth reviews, describe their thinking process and fairly weigh pros / cons.

Ultimately it’s imo more about avoiding bad products than it is about noticing whether a product is great. Criticaster collects all professional reviews to get to an average critic score, which will more quickly and more accurately get you to a satisfactory product than any other approach.
gghootch
·4 tháng trước·discuss
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! I’ll do some more digging into the Orbi systems.

In my experience buying a product that gets mostly positive reviews from professional reviewers gets you a far better product than one with mixed reviews. I’m surprised that’s not your experience and that you don’t much trust those scores. What else do you make your purchase decisions on then? Purely specs?
gghootch
·5 tháng trước·discuss
Here to answer any questions :-)
gghootch
·5 tháng trước·discuss
https://www.criticaster.com/

A metacritic like website but for any product.

It analyzes thousands of professional critic reviews to find the best of the best.

I started building this because I adore how metacritic analyzes professional movie/game/tv show reviews and calculates a meta score for each title. In my experience it’s the best way to discover new things to watch or play, and I’ve often wished something like this would exist for when I want to buy a product.

This year, I decided to start building it myself and Criticaster is the result.

For a given product category we collect all professional reviews of a given product, analyze each to assign them a score and then calculate an average critic score.

The goal is to become the most trustworthy source to make product decisions.

Very curious what y’all think!
gghootch
·6 tháng trước·discuss
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