Caveman
Why use so many token when few do trick?
Details
- External ID
- 1122839
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Caveman
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- April 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 262
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5169082125603864
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Caveman cuts ~75% of Claude's output tokens without losing technical accuracy. One-line install for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and more. Four grunt levels, terse commits, one-line PR reviews, and input compression built in. 24.9K stars.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- token optimization for language models
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a prompt engineering configuration and lightweight CLI script that applies terse output formatting rules and token compression heuristics to coding assistants.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 152 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #90 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 150 days after the earliest competitor.
- Edgee Claude Code Compressor V2 · ph · 2026-07-06 · 179 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CodeBurn · hn · 2026-04-13 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- claudecut · github · 2026-09-20 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Latitude for Claude Code · ph · 2026-05-13 · 368 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Claude Usage Tracker · ph · 2026-03-23 · 235 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Quotient Labs: Stop overpaying Claude for tokens you don't need · yc · 2026-09-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Rocky and Caveman Speak in Claurst CLI Save Big Token Amaze Amaze Amaze · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) · hn · 2026-02-13 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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