VebGen Official

Posted on Oct 28

I Built a Million Dollar AI Coding Platform for Completely Free 🇮🇳

#python #ai #programming #opensource

I'm Ramesh. I'm 20, from India 🇮🇳, and I've been coding since I was 17.

Eight months ago, I got frustrated watching my $247/month AI tool bill climb just because the AI kept re-reading my code to understand it.

So I built something different.

💸 The Problem with Every AI Coding Tool

Cursor. Copilot. Claude. They all do this:

Every time you ask a question, they send your entire codebase to expensive language models. Not to write code. Just to read it.

Then they forget everything and do it again for the next question.

You're basically paying rent for the AI to understand your own code. Over and over.

That's not coding assistance. That's a subscription trap.

⚡ VebGen: Read Once, Remember Forever

Instead of burning tokens on reading code, VebGen uses Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) to understand your code structure locally.

In 0.2 seconds. For $0. Forever.

Think of it like this:

Other tools: Read the entire Harry Potter series every time you ask about a character 📚
VebGen: Read it once, build an index, answer questions instantly ⚡

The AI only gets used for writing code, not reading it.

🚀 Where Others Fail, VebGen Shines

💰 1. Token Costs

Them: $20-500/month burning tokens on reading
VebGen: $0 for reading, pay only for writing

🧠 2. Understanding Your Code

Them: Send entire files, hope for the best
VebGen: Parse 95+ framework constructs, understand relationships, detect issues

🔧 3. Self-Healing

Them: Generate code, you fix bugs
VebGen: Two AI agents work together (TARS plans, CASE builds), auto-fix 70% of bugs

♿ 4. Accessibility

Them: Generate code, you manually check WCAG compliance
VebGen: Built-in WCAG 2.1 validation, color contrast checks, alt-text verification

🔒 5. Security

Them: Hope nothing dangerous happens
VebGen: Military-grade sandbox, can't harm your system even if it tries

💾 6. Losing Work

Them: Crash = start over
VebGen: SHA-256 verified state, 5 auto-backups, never lose progress

🛠️ My Journey

Month 1-2: Thought this would take 2 months. LOL. 😅

Month 3-4: Realized parsing Django models is harder than I thought. So many edge cases.

Month 5: Everything broke. Rewrote the entire agent system. Learned about dual-agent architectures.

Month 6: Added accessibility validation because I was tired of manually checking color contrast.

Month 7: Wrote 356 tests because debugging at 3 AM is awful. ☕

Month 8: Finally released v0.3.0. Zero dollars spent on infrastructure. Just me, Python, and free-tier APIs.

The hardest part wasn't the code. It was believing that free-tier APIs could build something production-ready when everyone says you need expensive models.

Turns out, you don't. ✨

📊 The Numbers

After 8 months of solo work:

✅ 900KB production code
✅ 356 tests (99.7% pass rate)
✅ $0 spent (Gemini Flash is free!)
✅ WCAG 2.1 compliant output
✅ Open source (MIT license)

💡 Why This Matters

You shouldn't pay a subscription just for an AI to read your code.

You shouldn't manually check accessibility compliance in 2025.

You shouldn't lose hours of work because the AI crashed.

VebGen proves you can build better tools with:

Zero funding 💰
Free APIs 🆓
One person 👤
Open source 📖

If I can do this from India with no money, imagine what you can build.

🎯 Try It

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/vebgenofficial/vebgen

Installation takes 2 minutes. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter.

📚 What I Learned

Technical lessons:

AST parsing is 10x faster than dumping files
Free-tier APIs are shockingly powerful
Dual agents > single agent
Accessibility should be built-in, not bolted on

Personal lessons:

Solo doesn't mean alone (open source community helped!) 🤝
Perfect is the enemy of shipped 🚢
356 tests > 0 tests (obviously, but I learned the hard way)
You don't need VC money to build great software 💪

❓ Questions?

Ask me anything! I'm here to help and learn from this community.

If this resonates with you, star the repo ⭐. It helps others discover VebGen and keeps me motivated.

Built with ❤️ in India 🇮🇳

Top comments (6)

shemith mohanan • Oct 30

🔥 This is wild, Ramesh! Using AST parsing to skip token burn is genius — that’s the kind of optimization real devs dream of.
Built-in accessibility checks + dual-agent system? Unreal for a solo project. 💪
Proof that you don’t need VC money to build something powerful. Starred the repo ⭐ — Made in India, made with brilliance 🇮🇳🚀