Ever wondered if you're a 10x developer or just an API token burner? Rudel turns your Claude and Codex usage into brutally honest trading cards.
Have you ever stared at your Claude or OpenAI API billing dashboard and thought, "What the f**k did I even build to burn this much money?" Don't worry, if you're having an existential crisis about your dev skills, there's finally a tool designed to expose your exact coding habits.
Enter Rudel – a wild new tool that just popped up on Product Hunt. If you're a fan of the annual Spotify Wrapped, or love ripping open player packs in FIFA Ultimate Team, Rudel is the unholy lovechild of both, but tailored exclusively for devs using Claude Code and Codex.
Instead of shoving boring pie charts and raw metrics down your throat, Rudel slurps up your session data (duration, tokens burned, repos touched, error rates) and mints a shiny "AI Coder Trading Card." This card slaps you with an Archetype based on how you actually work.
The best part? It's open-source, completely free, and you can self-host it. So you paranoid wizards don't have to worry about leaking your billion-dollar spaghetti code to a third party.
The creator of Rudel ([REDACTED]) dropped the realest explanation for building this: They were using Claude Code / Codex daily but had zero clue what was actually happening. Which sessions were useful? Where were the tokens bleeding out? Were they actually getting better at coding, or just speed-running the company's API budget?
To answer this, they created hilariously accurate, slightly offensive Archetypes:
In the comments, one dude literally begged for advice: "Could you share a quick tip on... what flips someone from 'Company Card' to 'Maniac' efficiency?" You just know this bro is fighting for his life before his manager reviews the monthly AI expenses.
Let's be real, we all lean on ai tools a bit too much these days. It's too easy to blindly copy-paste whatever the AI spits out. When it works, you look like a genius. When it hallucinates, you're stuck debugging garbage for 6 hours.
Rudel sounds like a meme, but it's actually a brilliant way to audit your own engineering flow. Tracking where your tokens go, which repos cause the most friction, and how often you error-out early in a session is a massive reality check.
TL;DR: Go clone the repo, host it, and see what your card says. Find out if you're the chosen one, or just a "Company Card" menace to society before your boss does.
Source: Product Hunt
