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

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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…

Is this AI powered as well as being AI coded?

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

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Yes, Jmail. It’s a suite of tools to navigate the Epstein files—it even made it into the news! Here’s the HackerNews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600

Why didn't you call it Appstein?

Epste-mail

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

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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-…

I agree with your assessment, as a full stack dev with CS degree that just kinda waltzed into Salesforce for the last 5 years. Claude is more capable at delivering the customizability that Salesforce tried to offer with it's "clicks not code" approach. the only thing these CRMs have going for them is enterprise entrenchment.

I also work at Stripe and will be recommending that we migrate our CPQ off of Salesforce for various reasons (agent force is butt, platform limits are silly in 2025 - 6 meg max heap size for a backend transaction?????).

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

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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…

I was going to build this. Thanks for saving me the time!

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

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My friend created an iPhone app that controls a set of MCP servers that will control all the smart things in his house. Completely vibe coded. The servers are in Python, which he can read but not really write, and the app is in Swift, which he doesn't understand at all. https://github.com/adrianco/c11s-house-ios

MCP to turn on a light bulb?

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

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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

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 link I can click in the PR and try the site before I merge to main (trunk based). I use Supabase so if there is a DB migration I just run it in the Supabase console by copy pasting the SQL.

When I merge the PR it deploys to prod. This works pretty well for me.

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