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

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Post by kanchanepally »

Lord_Zero wrote: post #127
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.

Touché. The corporate voice is a hazard of my day-job of 15 yrs.

It is 100% vibe-coded/AI-assisted. I'm just trying to layer actual engineering discipline (TDD, proper DB migrations) on top of that workflow so it doesn't break when actual parents use it. Thanks for the feedback.

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Post by jacobrussell »

contractorwolf wrote: post #138
jacobrussell wrote: post #34

If by production you mean “done” and used by someone (i.e. by me) then I made https://skidmarks.club to replace my peloton subscription. You can browse and ride at https://app.skidmarks.club . I’ve done ~10 rides with it so far. Hoping I can convince my wife to use it and save myself $50 a month. That would be my most successful side project by a wide margin. There are probably a lot of examples like this. Vibe coded…

Skidmarks club? Tell me you don't have a product person without telling me...

It's just a silly name :)

You may not have looked at the landing page: https://www.skidmarks.club

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

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Post by transitorykris »

tmaly wrote: post #125
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.

Spreadsheets can work but get clumsy really fast. Bottle cost can vary as costs change (case discounts, price changes.. and holding inventory of an item across multiple purchases), audit logging (spelunking into the undo history), multiple staff interacting with the system.. All solved problems, just not at the price point or UX we need at this scale.

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

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Post by alwinaugustin »

I’ve shipped multiple apps that are largely LLM-assisted. One of it is called Toolbit (Repo: https://github.com/alwin-augustin/toolbit), which is a collection of 20+ dev utilities like formatting JSON, generating UUID, JSON validation etc. I have been using JSON formatters all the time, but worried about whether they are sending it to server and so built this one so as it will do the processing on client side only.

Another application I have built is Remotedays (remotedays.app), which is a compliance tool for Luxembourg based companies to track cross border workers. This is recently finished and starting to reach out initial customers. There is a demo for this app is available in public at demo.remotedays.app

I have used Claude Code and Google Antigravity IDE. The Antigravity is used whenever I exceeded the Claude limits (which happens often). If you have an architecture about the product in mind, you can clearly use these tools as force multipliers. In my experience, Claude is the best, especially when you use it with the skills.

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

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Post by diamondfist25 »

jacobrussell wrote: post #100
mattfrommars wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean you used your phone for code review? I've lately seen a trend where people use their phone to instruct agent on the cloud to build applications. I presume this is beyond having RDP on your phone

I use Claude Code on the mobile app, it creates a PR, I click the link which takes me to the GitHub mobile app, I turn my phone landscape and scroll through the code. I give feedback in the Claude mobile app if needed and it pushes additional commits. I try to keep my instructions pretty targeted so there aren’t too many LOC and files changed. That’s the goal at least. I deploy on Vercel, so I get a preview build lin…

I’m doing something similar, but using convex

Makes life much easier

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

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Post by diamondfist25 »

jokull wrote: post #55

Keep in mind that a lot of vibe-coded software is flying under the radar because it’s being built to replace SaaS and bring workflows in-house. We often judge success by public launches or ARR, but the real "killer app" for this methodology right now is internal tooling for small teams. For example, instead of spending developer bandwidth integrating Salesforce into first-party data, teams are increasingly just vibe-…

True. I’m vibe coding and I realize I can combine a bunch of saas into 1 mega app.

Greatest feeling ever

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

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Post by VatroslavM »

I've built a tool that skips Spotify tracks I've scrobbled recently on Last.fm.

It was entire built by ChatGPT and Cursor, with me only providing the guidance, without writing any code.

I use the app daily, as I've included it in Windows startup and don't ever turn it off.

You can see more about it here and even download a release of an older version: https://github.com/Vatroslav/spotify-auto-skipper

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