`tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens
Details
- External ID
- 46583619
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.41699604743083
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Little tool that I made to understand how (un)reasonable my prompts are.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- token counter for llm output
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI tool counting LLM tokens simply reads STDIN or files and passes text through existing tokenizer libraries like tiktoken, requiring just a few dozen lines of code.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #67 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 74 days after the earliest competitor.
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