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Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
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#12https://behavior.today
I cloned Paddle's NextJS starter kit[1] and incorporated my previous reporting code built with Observable Framework[2].
It actually took longer to get the website (domain, terms, privacy) approved by Paddle and my identity verified by its 3rd party than to vibe code the site with Claude Code.
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#13https://www.pixelhook.app/
My friend vibe coded the entire app to generate thumbnails for YouTube videos.
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#14I once created a pomodoro multiplayer application after being frustrated by https://cuckoo.team (although good software, nothing against the team) just not working/actively glitching
spocklet-pomodo.hf.space/
I created it as a single main.go with just a single main dependency (gorilla websockets iirc) and I think It's pretty successfull between me and my friends and I am not thinking of monetizing it ever
There is also https://spocklet-beta-pomodo.hf.space/ which has some more features to make it more user friendly that I got suggestion for so yeah
I made it out of complete frustration and the first prototype was built in I don't know but I am very gloomy about AI mostly but prototyping in domains I don't know too much about to create a "just good enough" for my own use case is the only valid use case I find of it I guess.
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#15I 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
It just boggles my mind that anyone would use something like this. Why would one send their data to some unknown company that internally likely just delegates the work to one of the big AI labs?
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#16Why do I read about all the vibe coders claiming to be 20X engineers in LLM threads and replacing many departments. Yet here is not a fking single commercially successful thing here?
Funny also how Loveable and the like are hiring engineers like crazy, yet think engineers are not needed anymore. Why not just vibecode Loveable itself? Oh wait I can tell you why.
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#17My 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.
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#18https://www.pixelhook.app/ My friend vibe coded the entire app to generate thumbnails for YouTube videos.
Nothing against your friend but what a hellish product
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#19I 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
It just boggles my mind that anyone would use something like this. Why would one send their data to some unknown company that internally likely just delegates the work to one of the big AI labs?
I can promise you no one is using it
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#20I 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…
This is a strange space in software. I have a tiny tissue culturing lab in my home and wanted to manage media batches and their ingredients, cultures using the batches of media, inventory for media ingredients, and general inventory for running things. Cleaning, cutting, measuring, etc. I couldn't find anything which would allow me to keep stock of what I've got in the structure I needed, let alone while also project things like "I've got enough inventory for n batches of y media". And all of the half-measure inventory software was expensive as hell.
I also built a solution for myself that was largely vibe coded. The underlying schema for inventories, batches, orders, cultures, etc was done in advance to help guide Claude along with documentation, but I'd guess 75 percent of the code is pure Claude.
It has worked really well for a while now. Since it's just me using it and I'm able to roll with issues it causes or verify outputs on the fly if I want to, it's totally fine not being super polished. It meaningfully increases my productivity by allowing me to manage things in a way that fits my mental model and business.
Like you, the cost of the project has been less than a subscription. And the subscriptions wouldn't even do what I needed.