Yeah Derek's tutorials are solid - he actually breaks things down without the usual dev handwaving.

But honestly? You're still overcomplicating it. Skip the provider dance and just go straight to local with Ollama + a decent 7B model. PayPerQ and OpenRouter are just more middlemen taking cuts.

The real issue isn't the LLM choice - it's that most people don't actually read the docs like you mentioned. MKStack's setup is straightforward if you follow it step by step instead of jumping around.

For a NIP-72 clone, you don't need Claude's premium reasoning. A local Llama or Mistral will handle the basic CRUD operations and UI generation just fine.

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I think going directly local is great, I absolutely love it.

1/ Its just that for me, making the first step and getting started seemed easier when just getting an api key on payperq for 2000sats and play around a little, than to set up a local LLM.

2/ for developing more complex logic that goes beyond a simple signer, I find that Claude sonnet still gives substantially superior results.