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

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Post by reallynattu »

I built https://screenshot2charts.com, a tool that turns screenshots or CSV/JSON into editable charts. It solves the annoying problem of re-creating messy charts for reports and presentations, especially when all you have is a blurry screenshot of either a chart or some numbers.

From my experience, the biggest difference between vibe-coded projects that go somewhere and the ones that don’t isn’t code quality, it’s whether the builder keeps talking to users after the first version. The “vibe” gets you to ship, but iteration discipline is what turns it into something real.

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

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Post by sevennull »

oliwary wrote: post #33

https://spaceword.org - a daily word game inspired by banana grams, where you need to arrange 21 letters in a tight square. Has around 400 daily active players. I'm pretty familiar with the underlying stack, which helped a lot since I knew the pitfalls. But pretty much all of the code is written by an LLM.

cool idea. not seeing all tiles available at once is kinda pita as it makes it harder to come up with word choices.

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

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Post by gatlin »

Qwen3-Coder on 20gb of vram was able to do 90% of this: https://gist.github.com/gatlin/4bee9645b96e8b9e733960453b972...

Problem statement: given a start date and a bible book / chapter, produce a reading schedule for the remainder of the bible assuming one will read 3 chapters every day and 2 extra on Sunday.

So assuming an input of "2025-07-06 Genesis 1," the list would read "Saturday, June 6, 2025: Genesis 1 (3 chapters) \n Sunday, June 7, 2025: Genesis 4 (5 chapters)..." etc.

It created the types, data structures, and utility functions required, and even isolated the schedule generation to a function that used all of them ... and that function was busted. It printed the same book and chapter and date every line.

With a little elbow grease I was able to bring it home. Saved me an hour.

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

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Post by akaescobar »

I built an iptv proxy that supports scheduled recordings, as well as proxying playlist and binary protocol streaming. Containerized I run this for my wife who watches a lot of foreign tv. This last weekend I built from scratch a event driven design simulator for visualizing my system design work with a godot gamified presentation so I can step thru event impact with people rather than looking at static diagrams. I wrote none of the code. Spent maybe 2 hours refactoring some things, but nothing significant. Passed my reviews, was very pleased with results. Quite liking codex models, though still get faster iterations and good results with sonnet.

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

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Post by mellosouls »

This has become a pretty pointless thing to clarify now but

"Vibe coding" and "AI-assisted coding" are NOT the same.

There's a spectrum of AI use from none to full (vibe coding).

Claude Code is probably the best known example of a product claimed to be coded with AI-assistance to the point of much of it being autonomous now guided by experts. My experience is that is now the norm for many senior engineers and it's certainly the future. I don't know any that are truly vibe-coded but I would imagine plenty of mobile apps.

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

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Post by properbrew »

reallynattu wrote: post #81

I built https://screenshot2charts.com , a tool that turns screenshots or CSV/JSON into editable charts. It solves the annoying problem of re-creating messy charts for reports and presentations, especially when all you have is a blurry screenshot of either a chart or some numbers. From my experience, the biggest difference between vibe-coded projects that go somewhere and the ones that don’t isn’t code quality, it’s w…

This is extremely well done, very easy to use and looks awesome. From the few tests I did it absolutely nailed it. I'm impressed!

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

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Post by mattfrommars »

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…

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

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

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Post by cyrusradfar »

I think it depends on what you call successful.

I've built products that solve my problems and have released one, Intraview.ai -- it's functional, solves a real problem for me and my customers.

That said, as a business goes, it's not a sensation but it's gone from idea to customers using it in less than 6 months. Is it a VC hit, no -- am I happy with where it is and how fast I'm learning -- absolutely!

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