Indie dev burns 3 Codex reset cards and 64K AI-written lines to ship CapWise
vista8 · x · 2026-11-08
Indie developer vista8 burned through 3 Codex reset cards and lost one Claude account over a weekend, with AI adding 64,300 lines of code to get his screen-recording tool CapWise to a usable state.
The screenshot shows a macOS recording/editor with annotations, AI captions with proofreading and translation, camera overlay, timeline segments, and one-click export. The pitch: works out of the box, record and export in one click. He plans to use the tool to introduce the tool itself — "RSI incoming."
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