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Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by kordlessagain »

bdangubic wrote: post #70
TrackerFF wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots and lots of commercial software is being vibe coded. Big difference here is that at least the OP honest about it.

I think our industry really needs to get on top of terms / names and fast. To me, “vibe coded” means “100% (or close to it) of this was written by LLM and I do not have a slightest clue about technology or hacking or anything related to this domain.” if this is the case here (or anywhere else) I am not touching it with a 10-foot pole (even with honesty of the author). something like “LLM assisted” would be a whole ot…

I have a clue, a big one, and do 100% vibe coding. Stop splitting hairs.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by bdangubic »

kordlessagain wrote: post #71
bdangubic wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think our industry really needs to get on top of terms / names and fast. To me, “vibe coded” means “100% (or close to it) of this was written by LLM and I do not have a slightest clue about technology or hacking or anything related to this domain.” if this is the case here (or anywhere else) I am not touching it with a 10-foot pole (even with honesty of the author). something like “LLM assisted” would be a whole ot…

I have a clue, a big one, and do 100% vibe coding. Stop splitting hairs.

if you had a clue you would not be doing 100% vibe coding :)

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by bryanhogan »

FireInsight wrote: post #25

I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience. I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go…

I think the same way, I'd love a social media management tool, all of the ones I found were insanely expensive or not usable / had horrible usability issues. Pitching a product by telling me it's built quickly with AI does the opposite of convincing me to try it, even though I'm in the market for the solution offered.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by alasano »

ninkendo wrote: post #66
63stack wrote: post #40

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The era of sharing some small programs that you made with others to benefit from is over imo. You can just vibe code it yourself. If your requirements are narrower (eg. you only need support for 3 networks and not 12), you will end up with something that takes less time to develop (possibly less than a day), it will have a smaller surface for problems, and it will be much better tailored to your specific needs. If yo…

> The era of sharing some small programs that you made with others to benefit from is over imo. > You can just vibe code it yourself. +1. The password manager I use full time now is “Kenpass”, which has exactly one user: me. I have it on iOS/macOS/Linux, browser extensions, CLI and (native, no electron) UI for each, syncs with my homelab server over my wireguard tunnel, and it covers all my use cases. Took me maybe a…

> kenpass

> username "ninkendo"

Absolutely checks out.

Please share more ken related software names you use lol

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by bryanhogan »

m000 wrote: post #41
FireInsight wrote: post #25

I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience. I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go…

I agree. It's not like this project is disrupting an overpriced product/SaaS. E.g. Buffer charges around $50 per year per social media account, which gives you an unlimited number of collaborating user accounts. And their single user plans are even cheaper. I don't see how self-hosting would be a worthy investment of your time/effort in this case, unless you are in some grossly mismanaged organization where you have…

$50 is a high price to ask, no? And I just looked it up, it's actually even more than that.

Consider having an account for each common social media platform, then multiply that for every project, that grows quickly.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by drabbiticus »

JanSchu wrote: post #42
dontwannahearit wrote: post #39

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How much of the specs themselves came from the LLM? The development schedule https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/blob/main... has very AI-looking estimates for exampl and I can see a commit in the architecture.md file which is exclusively changing em-dashes to normal dashes ( https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/commit/74... ) which suggests you wanted to make it seem less LLM-generated?…

The spec document was also written by Claude (over many iteration) and lots of manual additions. It took me tho 4 full days to get the specs to the level I was happy with. One main thing I did was to use the deep research feature of Claude to get a good understanding of what other tools are offering (features, integrations etc.) Then each feature in the specs document got refined with manual suggestions and screensho…

Thanks for sharing!

> Before writing any code, I spent time on detailed specs, an architecture doc, and a style guide. All public: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio/tree/main...

> It took me tho 4 full days to get the specs to the level I was happy with.

When I click on history there I see only a single commit for these docs. Would you be willing to share some or all of the conversation you had with the LLM (in a gist or in the repo) that led to these architecture docs? Understand if you can't, but I'm sure it would be super instructive for people trying to understand the process of doing something like this and the types of guide rails that help to move the process forward productively.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by dghlsakjg »

swasheck wrote: post #68
sixtyj wrote: post #50

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I see your point. Last time I “vibe coded” something (internal) and I liked it because I couldn’t find external solution. I admire coders who can finish their code into deliverable and usable piece. Issue here is software abundance and ppl will start to hesitate due to absurd pile that they should evaluate. It reminds me the statistics of ice cream global sales. People want certainty so they choose chocolate or vanil…

i think we need to encode (or refine) what we mean by “vibe code.” my original impression was that it was used to describe the process whereby someone with an idea but lacking development/engineering skills leveraged llm via an agent to create the mechanics to bring their idea to fruition. anymore it seems like if it has the hint of AI then it’s “vibe coded.” ironically, i didn’t read the article because i come to co…

Definitely. The original vibe coding tweet is pretty explicit about “forgetting the code exists”, and “throwaway weekend projects” (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383)

Now however, many people just use it to mean any ai-assisted coding.

One person says “vibe coding” to mean a throwaway script to scrape some page. Others use it to mean a code reviewed app built by a team using Claude.

It is so broad as to be meaningless at this point

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by pablogiuffrida »

FireInsight wrote: post #25

I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience. I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go…

i did something similar, and i agree that 3 weeks sounds like a tight timeframe. You need to test what "vibe coding" delivers VERY thoroughly.

It can be done though. And i say it as a developer for 20 years now.

Re: Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

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Post by sixtyj »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #78
swasheck wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think we need to encode (or refine) what we mean by “vibe code.” my original impression was that it was used to describe the process whereby someone with an idea but lacking development/engineering skills leveraged llm via an agent to create the mechanics to bring their idea to fruition. anymore it seems like if it has the hint of AI then it’s “vibe coded.” ironically, i didn’t read the article because i come to co…

Definitely. The original vibe coding tweet is pretty explicit about “forgetting the code exists”, and “throwaway weekend projects” ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 ) Now however, many people just use it to mean any ai-assisted coding. One person says “vibe coding” to mean a throwaway script to scrape some page. Others use it to mean a code reviewed app built by a team using Claude. It is so broad a…

Cool. Thus I am an ai/llm-assisted coder amateur. I don’t code for living, I know principles (or I think so) but don’t remember syntax (too old to learn new tricks :)
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