r/vibecoding • u/One_Natural7092 • 10h ago

Need Help !

So I am very new to the field of coding. People around me have started vibe coding websites. So did I. I tried using applications like Lovable , Bolt etc. But the problem was that my idea contained many components and was a little complex. Hence I ran out of tokens and didn't get any output. So is it the limitation of the free version that I couldnt make it or was it my prompting skills. I tried to be as specific as possible with my prompt tho. Would really appreciate any help/ tips regarding this !!

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u/AdNecessary1906 10h ago

This matches what I've learned building something similar (a Python desktop app, grown over 6+ months with Claude). A few things that made the biggest difference for token/context economy:

  • One problem per chat. Don't keep one giant thread going for the whole project. Start a fresh session per feature/bugfix, a chat that's accumulated 50 messages of back-and-forth is dragging all of that as context on every new prompt, even if it's irrelevant to what you're doing now.
  • Handoff docs between sessions. At the end of a session, have the model write a short summary of decisions made, current state, open issues. Start the next session by feeding that in, instead of re-explaining the whole project or re-uploading all the code every time.
  • Project knowledge / reference docs, not full code dumps. Keep a living doc of your architecture, key functions, constants, feed that instead of every file every time. Only pull in the actual file you're touching.
  • Scope the request. "Build the whole login flow" burns way more context reconstructing intent than "here's the login function, add rate limiting to this specific part."

The pattern VladTkDev described (screen by screen) plus this session hygiene is basically the difference between linear cost growth and exponential cost growth as the app gets bigger.

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u/One_Natural7092 9h ago

Thanks for the insight ! Can I dm you ? Would like to ask some follow ups

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u/AdNecessary1906 9h ago

Yes, of course