I switched an online booking portal's geo features (Maps, Geocoding, Places lookup) from Google to a self-hosted Open-source setup running on a cheap VPS in record time 🤯
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It took 3:15 hours from VPS setup to everything running in production. Before AI, this would have been a week's project at least
Apart from being cleaner GDPR wise, this is going to save hundreds of Euros per month in API fees.
I'd never have thought it possible without the inspiration of indie hacking legend Pieter Levels' replacing all his SaaS subscriptions with self-hosted Open Source and vibe coded services and talking about it constantly on Twitter!
I've been working very intensely on a couple bigger projects and my Claude Max $99 subscription allowed me to use tokens that would have cost me $2,209 had I consumed them through the API.
It shows how insanely subsidized these plans still are, and what real world pricing might look like long term.
All the more reason to build token efficient workflows that move as much of the computing burden as possible to deterministic tools, ideally running on your own hardware!
