Show HN: Makoda: reuse your Codex or Claude subscriptions as API
Already paying for ChatGPT or Claude? You should not need a second, per-token bill just to test your app(local or remote). I was paying ~$120/mo in API bills just to test my own app, on top of my ChatGPT and Claude plans. So, I built Makoda: a free app that reuses your Codex's/Claude's compute on your machine as a local & remote API. available for mac & ubuntu.
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Source account: Already paying for ChatGPT or Claude? You should not need a second, per-token bill just to test your app(local or remote). I was paying ~$120/mo in API bills just to test my own app, on top of my ChatGPT and Claude plans. So, I built Makoda: a free app that reuses your Codex's/Claude's compute on your machine as a local & remote API. available for mac & ubuntu.
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