Good idea about Claude, never tried it myself. But I've heard that GPT-4 is superior at the moment. Is it true?
Also thought about GPT-4 prices, but from my experience: If I use it intensively for a 3-4 hours it costs about $5. This is much cheaper than anyones hour rate.
You can work on a subset of project files that fit into 8k tokens. It's a limitation, yes. It's usually more than enough to add 4-5 files for context providing.
There is a good global pomodoro timer for working and chating with others. Every 30 minutes a global pomodoro starts. The design is also clean and minimalist.
https://pomodorr.io