v0 credits gone in a week, how do people make them last?

Things that halved my usage:

• Long chats get expensive because the whole history and code goes along. Start a new chat per section and only bring the code you need.
• Fix small things (spacing, text, colors) in the code view yourself instead of prompting.
• Write one detailed prompt instead of 5 vague ones. "Make it nicer" costs you 4 rounds.
• Use a screenshot/sketch as input for layout, it gets closer on the first try.

Once the design is settled, pull it into a real project and continue in an editor. v0 is great for 0 to 1 on UI, it's an expensive text editor after that.

I disagree a bit with going to an editor early, for designers without much code experience v0 is still the fastest. But definitely the new chat per section, that one is a big win.

What saved me the most: attach the existing component file instead of describing it. It stops regenerating the whole thing.