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I’ve pushed a full-stack educational platform for parents, My DigitAlly, to production using what we call "Systematic AI Collaboration" (a matured version of vibe-coding). It isn't a static site; it’s a production app with: Full Auth: Google OAuth and email/password. Engagement Engine: A node-cron system that automatically sends weekly tips to 200+ subscribers every Saturday. Dynamic Curriculum: A 5-block lesson flow…
This 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 :)
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 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.
I didnt join them because I dont really want to do all the work that comes with owning a business like the accounting. mostly the accounting. i also dont particularly want to be maintaining an extra couple of systems at present. there mught be vibe coding currently, but not vibe operations
they should have the thing up by june at their very slow rate of building with lovable, but theyre not people who would ever frequent HN.
Tangents (https://tangents.chat) is an Angular/Nest/Postgres app for thinking-with-LLMs without losing the thread.
- Branch: select any span (user or assistant) and branch it into a tangent thread so the main thread stays coherent.
- Collector: collect spans across messages/threads into curated context, then prompt with it.
- You can inspect a "what the model will see" preview and keep a stored context-assembly manifest.
Vibe-coding aspect: about 600 commits and about 120k LOC (tests included) and I have not handwritten the implementation code. I do write specs/docs/checklists and I run tests/CI like normal.
What made it workable for something larger than a static page:
- Treat the model like a junior dev: explicit requirements plus acceptance criteria, thin slices, one change at a time.
- Keep "project truth" in versioned docs (design system plus interface spec) so the model does not drift.
- Enforce guardrails: types, lint, tests, and a strict definition of "done."
- The bottleneck is not generating code, it is preventing context/spec drift and keeping invariants stable across hundreds of changes.
If you define "vibe coding" as "I never look at the code," I do not think serious production apps fit that. But if you define it as "the LLM writes the code and you steer via specs/tests," it is possible to build something non-trivial.
Happy to answer specifics if anyone cares (workflow, tooling, what breaks first, etc.).
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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…
You're doing tissue culture at home?! That's impressive. I imagine you've got some background in bio - what projects are you working on?
I think the main issue is maintaining sterile conditions but its doable.
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…
Its been very decent so far. Time will tell if the PMF is there for the MVP, but thats on the product, not the AI generated code slop.
FYI, this was more of a hobby horse + learning project than an "enterprise SaaS requiring SOC2 compliance." I am basically building a toy. So far, I have learned that you can ship code toys very quickly to test a market demand with an MVP.
I've got some users and the stuff I can do each time I start doing vibecoding is astounding. Obviously 50% the work is just fixing what the AI didn't understood or imagined too much, but having a good AGENTS.md is key (and patience from me) - so that's why I'm buidling LynxPrompt indeed, for having an easy way to own a good AGENTS.md file for my next projects... and hopefully you too.