A WebForms app was ported to Blazor in about 48 hours for about 150 dollars of tokens

Ported a legacy .NET WebForms app to Blazor with GPT-5.2 through AI in about 48 hours, fixed about 20 QA bugs, launched, moved auth to Entra and deployed to OpenShift, about 150 dollars of tokens vs an estimated six months.

$150

How it works

GPT through AI ports the app from WebForms to Blazor
About 20 QA bugs get fixed
Sign-in moves to the company identity system
The app launches on the new platform

Why it’s worth knowing

A port quoted in months was done over a weekend for the price of a team lunch.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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