Many people talk about vibe-coding and about the different ways to use this development "methodology" successfully. I wonder though if anyone really managed to push to production anything that has been fully or almost fully created through LLM assisted coding. Do you have anything to share, whether you or someone else created it? Possibly something more complex than a static webpage.
Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
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#2Not sure how you would define successful though. I built a Firefox addon almost entirely through vibe coding and I know at least 5 other random souls on the Internet who have used and thanked me for it. But it is by no stretch, if popularity or how much money it makes, are the measures.
I was trying to test the theory if it's even possible to release something production grade with vibe coding. Wrote about the experience here https://kau.sh/blog/container-traffic-control/
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#3I vibe coded a windows shell extension that renders thumbnails for 10-bit videos. Windows does not do this out of the box.
I also built a Preview Pane Handler for 10-bit videos.
The installers (WIX) were vibe coded as well.
So was the product website and stripe integration. I created a bespoke license generation system on checkout.
I don’t think I wrote a single line of C++ code although the WIX installers and website did receive minimal manual adjustments.
Started with Claude but then at some point during development Codex got really good so I used only that.
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#5Here's one: https://markshot.dev and a writeup at https://senkorasic.com/articles/mvp-vibe-code
It's not commercially successful (it's a side project), but still represents a complete project.
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#6I 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 up and try a different approach.
Database migrations and anything related to calculations have had a fair bit of hand holding. Beyond tests it writes I do still test by hand for confidence.
It’s coming up to a year of use. Claude Code credits has still not exceeded the cost of a paid product. I don’t count my time here because this doubles as keeping my technical side busy, and it’s been enjoyable.
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#7This probably doesn't count as an "app" in terms of what you're looking for, but was a fun little project
https://alexjacobs08.github.io/lobsters-graph/
(i built this in search of a lobste.rs invite if anyone willing and able sees this--email in my bio :)
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#8I built https://www.agentsfordata.com entirely in Cursor agent mode
I have rebuilt it a few times in agent mode while trying to get pmf. I used about 22B tokens this year
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#9Windows 11 is quite popular.
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#10An easy to use pickleball game schedule creation tool:
https://www.pickleballdinking.com/resources/schedule.html