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Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you please explain why [...] I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."

I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.

That seems to me to be one of the least generous interpretations, no?

It could also imply that, for whatever reason, the LLM opted for those tools. Therefore there isn't necessarily "reason" in the asked sense.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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> I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast.

So, most/all of TFA is copied from Claude code? Or in other words, what you did was prompt Claude - not actually following the instructions on this page (they are the output of Claude)?

Feels weird reading a sort of fictional/parallel reality description - if you follow these instructions you will arrive at a similar result as I got - only this is not how I did it...

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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More like " Setting a static website on a budget Android phone ". Unsure where the vibe coding is relevant, and Walmart Phone is basically a placeholder.

Claude Code made the simple little home page and did much of the configuration of the system inside andronix. The phone is available at Walmart for $25.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Can you please explain why not solely Termux with nginx? I don't understand why Andronix or proot are needed. Actually for a static Website why not just https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/ or more modern https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.flutter_http_ser... ? Anyway glad you had fun.

> Can you please explain

No, because they didn't program this or make these decisions, an LLM did.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Disingenious title, as the phone at 25$ is subsidized. Sure, you can properly buy a phone for not much more, but so can you a Raspberry Pi.

what do you mean by subsidized? do you have to buy a phone plan with it? i tried to add it to cart, and while it says it's locked to Straight Talk, it's not making me pay for a plan (though i'm not in the us so i'm not gonna actually order it to check)

You do not need to buy a phone plan with it (although they hope you will).

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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> I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast. So, most/all of TFA is copied from Claude code? Or in other words, what you did was prompt Claude - not actually following the instructions on this page (they are the output of Claude)? Feels weird reading a sort of fictional/parallel reality description - if you follow these instructions you will arrive at a similar result as I got - only this is not how I d…

I opened Obsidian, wrote down the steps that I performed + pieces claude did. Most of what I did was little troubleshooting bits or hooking things together.

That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help.

Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or things to add, etc.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

sorry but isn't this just theft²?

Well you see he ran it through in through an LLM, but LLMs are lossy, so who can say if the output was a direct result of the copyrighted code or if the model focused on his unique prompting words and conjured the output from its own latent space without referencing copyrighted input at all? /s

Alternatively, we could take the model makers’ view and say that if they didn’t want their code reused, they wouldn’t have made it publicly accessible on the internet.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app"?

I’ll fill in the part between OPs story and “then they all clapped” that he left out. He’s likely talking about “Save As”ing or scraping the DOM for rendered HTML/CSS and feeding that to an LLM to convert to actual in app wired up components.

Add in presumably ignoring the license of the scraped documents.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

sorry but isn't this just theft²?

I believe the OP already said he used AI.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Can you please explain why not solely Termux with nginx? I don't understand why Andronix or proot are needed. Actually for a static Website why not just https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/ or more modern https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.flutter_http_ser... ? Anyway glad you had fun.

Because it's cooler setting it up on your own than having an app do it for you. (Could even skip Termux really.) And most importantly, this sets up a full Linux environment, which can be used from hosting a simple site to programming (even the site itself; don't know if that's what author did here or site was copied from their main system) and more.
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