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Found this today. Text costs by the token, images cost by the pixel. Same 48K characters: 25,000 tokens as text, just 2,700 tokens as a PNG. About 9x less. pxpipe (teamchong/pxpipe) runs a local proxy between Claude Code and the API. Recent turns stay as-is. System prompts, tool documentation, stale context — all gets rendered into compact images, and the model reads it without breaking a sweat. 🔗 teamchong/pxpipe
No credit card, no nothing. Head to aistudio.google.com, create an API key, and plug it into any client with Gemini provider support. It's their strongest model right now. 1M token context. Text, images, audio, video all go in. Free tier rate limits are dynamic but fine for daily dev use. The catch: anything you send through the free tier gets used for training, so don't feed it anything sensitive.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
