Re:Show HN: Good First Token – Spend your spare tokens on op...
by Imustaskforhelp on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:17PM
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Really good idea in my opinion.
If I may suggest somethings:
1. I would want something where the code (tokens) can perhaps be generated on my laptop or through my API but no other permission is taken from it and then all the tool calls and other things can run on some other instance (maybe which the maintainer of the project can help run on): This is because I don't want to have large swathes of storage on my computer be blocked if it decides to for example suppose work on a large project.
Also within it, I don't mean that it shares API itself but rather that it proxies the tokens through my laptop in some sense if it makes so.
2. The website although looking good, it took me some time to figure out that its a play on the "good first issue" etc and the tag is set as "goodfirsttoken" in meanwhileso/goodfirsttoken but within ovensh/bun, it is "good first issue", I'd suggest some standardized way of understanding it as I found it a bit confusing.
3. Maybe having some connections to remade.wiki, that is a project which has people making rewrites of projects using AI. They are more than happy to use AI tokens and people are more than happy to provide them. Your project can help bridge the gap and help produce some good feedback loop.
4. Maybe have some sort of thing where I can just enter the sort of projects that I am interested with keywords/otherwise (it could even look for new issues as it comes to the repo).
At first, I thought that it was a good idea and worth re-making with all the tweaks mentioned but I wish to throw full support to your idea because it is worth it. More than happy to support this project :-D
Wishing you good luck for this idea and hope it catches on!
Re:Show HN: Good First Token – Spend your spare tokens on op...
by jconley on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:24PM
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1. You can do this with your own coding agents. I'm just trying to make this a coordinator for now.
2. Yeah, I encourage people to use the goodfirsttoken tag but to seed it I picked what projects are using right now.
3. Cool. Will look.
4. You can do this on the prompt to your agent. Don't have to browse the site. This morning I told it to work on something in omarchy and it found something and did it.
If I may suggest somethings:
1. I would want something where the code (tokens) can perhaps be generated on my laptop or through my API but no other permission is taken from it and then all the tool calls and other things can run on some other instance (maybe which the maintainer of the project can help run on): This is because I don't want to have large swathes of storage on my computer be blocked if it decides to for example suppose work on a large project.
Also within it, I don't mean that it shares API itself but rather that it proxies the tokens through my laptop in some sense if it makes so.
2. The website although looking good, it took me some time to figure out that its a play on the "good first issue" etc and the tag is set as "goodfirsttoken" in meanwhileso/goodfirsttoken but within ovensh/bun, it is "good first issue", I'd suggest some standardized way of understanding it as I found it a bit confusing.
3. Maybe having some connections to remade.wiki, that is a project which has people making rewrites of projects using AI. They are more than happy to use AI tokens and people are more than happy to provide them. Your project can help bridge the gap and help produce some good feedback loop.
4. Maybe have some sort of thing where I can just enter the sort of projects that I am interested with keywords/otherwise (it could even look for new issues as it comes to the repo).
At first, I thought that it was a good idea and worth re-making with all the tweaks mentioned but I wish to throw full support to your idea because it is worth it. More than happy to support this project :-D
Wishing you good luck for this idea and hope it catches on!
2. Yeah, I encourage people to use the goodfirsttoken tag but to seed it I picked what projects are using right now.
3. Cool. Will look.
4. You can do this on the prompt to your agent. Don't have to browse the site. This morning I told it to work on something in omarchy and it found something and did it.
Thanks!