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Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by sieep »

Lionga wrote: post #16

Why do I read about all the vibe coders claiming to be 20X engineers in LLM threads and replacing many departments. Yet here is not a fking single commercially successful thing here? Funny also how Loveable and the like are hiring engineers like crazy, yet think engineers are not needed anymore. Why not just vibecode Loveable itself? Oh wait I can tell you why.

Even worse, almost all of these links look exactly the same. Similar heros, similar calls to action, etc.

Ive even noticed fortmatting bugs that are seemingly identical on two different websites lol

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Post by cdavies7 »

I am not a software developer. But i have been progressively learning and building with help of AI - initially chatgpt, then cursor, now claude code and codex. I've been building https://thecrux.is/

I think it meets the brief - has a supabase backend, fairly complex workflows (inngest) etc. Too early to say "successful" but in production! I welcome questions & feedback

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Post by deonmfe »

I am a veteran teacher and not a coder. Since the explosion of ChatGPT a few years ago, I've been vibe coding. It was a really painful experience of me trying to constantly debug the AI's code. However, the AI's abililty in code production and debug has improved so much and so fast, that I trust its ability above my own. I fully vibe coded https://ieltstutor.ai from scratch. That's right. I didn't write one line of code. I created the code, the content, the pictures, and the audio files with AI. All I had to do and still does is the higher level of engineering as well as the course editing.

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Post by tmaly »

transitorykris wrote: post #6

I own a small bar and inventory management is either spreadsheets or saas products meant for larger operations. With the exclusion of some very small changes (e.g., deleting dead code) it’s 100% written using Claude Code. Initial design was generated from markdown documentation I wrote, and each change has been careful and incremental. A few blind alleys lead in the wrong direction, but was always easy enough to back…

I happened to go to brunch at a fancy restaurant on New Years Day. They were still updating their wine inventory with a spreadsheet.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by tmaly »

jimlawruk wrote: post #38

Here is an web app that tracks the grocery prices of my shopping at Aldi. It is meant to track grocery price inflation over time. It is obviously limited and incomplete since it is just based on my haphazard Aldi shopping. It includes a "basket of goods" total for each quarter, graphs, product pages, etc. It is coded by an LLM (except for maybe the initial commit). I don't write or edit the code, but I do sometimes "…

this reminds me of the MIT billion prices project

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Post by Lord_Zero »

kanchanepally wrote: post #50

I’ve pushed a full-stack educational platform for parents, My DigitAlly, to production using what we call "Systematic AI Collaboration" (a matured version of vibe-coding). It isn't a static site; it’s a production app with: Full Auth: Google OAuth and email/password. Engagement Engine: A node-cron system that automatically sends weekly tips to 200+ subscribers every Saturday. Dynamic Curriculum: A 5-block lesson flow…

This is written like some over-professional marketing ad or something. Like trying to defend its qualify even though it was vibe-coded. Not against vibe coded apps, this reads weird.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by randoglando »

I've found that one of the best use-cases is to create simple tools. Similar to what simonw does. I've done so here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/clean_logs/ or more descriptively here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2025-12-04-are-we... (at the bottom). LLMs are really good at coming up with code from scratch, and getting a lot of the boilerplate out of the way. If you want changes though, it helps to be a programmer and be familiar with the stack.

I've also created a more real "app" at https://www.hunchle.com, which is a trivia app. It was a real challenge since LLMs hallucinate all over the place, and given labs are benchmaxxing, it gives me a real good idea for how good LLMs really are.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by freakynit »

I built https://pagey.site fully vibe-coded (but heavily manually reviewed afterwards). Been pretty successful to say the least.

Since launching in November, more than 50 people are regularly using it. Two are actually medium-big (~200 personnel) enterprise companies.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by randoglando »

vunderba wrote: post #22

Piece Together is an animated puzzle game that I built with a fairly heavy reliance on agentic coding, especially for scaffolding. I did have to jump in and tweak some things manually (the piece-matching algorithm, responsive design, etc.), but overall I'd wager that LLMs handled about 80% of the work. I've never seen anything like it since the original days of the game "The Island of Dr. Brain" released in the early…

Love it, bookmarked! The animation adds another layer of strategy to jigsaw!
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