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Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by csomar »

If what you mean by vibe-coding is building a full app without writing/reading/touching code, the furthest I got with it is this game: https://qpingpong.codeinput.com (source: https://github.com/omarabid/qpingpong)

After a while, you hit a maxima where the LLM can't really add anything without breaking something else. You are always limited by what you know (which if you fully vibe coded the thing, then it's nothing?). You can get a bit farther by decomposing parts of the app into react components but after that you are stuck.

In real life, any clearly "vibe-coded" product was practically a shit-show especially in terms of UX. You can see the UI but things are quite unstable/unreliable. I have yet to see a fully vibe-coded product that actually works.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by frenchman_in_ny »

jacobrussell wrote: post #34

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…

Curious about what you're using as a cycling platform -- just the Peloton, or are you on a bike trainer? There's a huge library of workouts out there (see [0] as just an example), but mostly targeted at % FTP. The flow path is generally create your workout in an app to generate the FIT file, then upload to the bike computer (or use Zwift). But they tend to not support cadence range as yours does. Would love to find something that gives me %FTP and cadence range!

[0] https://whatsonzwift.com/workouts

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by sameg14 »

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Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by wjgilmore »

nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote: post #107
wjgilmore wrote: post #29

I’ve built and launched numerous SaaS products (which have paying customers) which were almost entirely built usibg AI agents including https://securitybot.dev and https://dependencydesk.com . My experience so far has been if you possess both deep domain-specific experience and significant coding experience then these coding LLMs, and most notably Opus 4.5, are the greatest productivity booster in the world.

Thanks for sharing. Are you getting customers by outreach, seo, ads or some other way?

It differs according to product. SecurityBot.dev has solid SEO because I put a lot of focused work into the landing pages. Interest in DependencyDesk has come exclusively through showing it directly to industry contacts.

The latter is partly what I was getting at regarding domain expertise because with that expertise comes an industry network. AI is great but if you’re creating solutions in search of a problem then the code doesn’t matter because nobody will need/want your product. I feel like your chances of success are much higher if you’ve personally felt the pain your product intends to solve, and that pain is built into the domain expertise people accrue over a long period of time.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by jdsully »

what wrote: post #101
jdsully wrote: post #75

I wrote Sum Buddy using a variety of AIs. Its a full featured AI spreadsheet. It started in Gemini's web interface and moved over to claude (which was a huge increase in capability). It has a bunch of paying customers now. https://sumbuddy.net

lol, you brought back clippy and people pay for it?

It looks like your writing a letter. Want help?

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by Sharanxxxx »

I built two small products mostly using AI-assisted coding (plus a lot of manual glue work).

One is Solo Launches, a Product Hunt–style platform for solo founders where you can launch your SaaS for free. I built it in ~15 days as a self-taught dev. It’s live, used by real users, and started making revenue recently (~$100+ in December, verifiable on TrustMRR). https://sololaunches.com

While growing it, I focused a lot on distribution and SEO. By submitting it to relevant directories, I managed to increase its DR noticeably. That process later turned into a second small product, listmy.site, where I help others get similar directory-based backlinks. https://listmy.site

Both are fairly simple full-stack apps, but they’re in production, have real users, and generate revenue — mostly built with LLM help + iteration. Happy to share more details about the stack or workflow if useful.

Happy New Year

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by AnotherGoodName »

I have a few vibe coded bots hanging around on discord and reddit that are helping out. One's posting cards for the game terraforming mars in response to users requesting it for example. They're appreciated by the community.

It's simple but i wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't a 10minute "Hey Claude create a ..." job. Having programmed a Reddit bot back in 2014 for xwing miniatures it took me several days to create it back then.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by devrundown »

dsmurrell wrote: post #68

I've made a few small projects that were built almost exclusively with Cursor (if that's considered vibe coding, I'm not sure). They don't have many users. https://spikelog.com https://runnem.com https://leveloh.com https://thefudgesisters.com https://hop.coffee I'm write a few articles here about tricks that work for me when it comes to AI assisted coding: https://foundinglean.substack.com

I like the coffee one!

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by jacobrussell »

frenchman_in_ny wrote: post #112
jacobrussell wrote: post #34

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…

Curious about what you're using as a cycling platform -- just the Peloton, or are you on a bike trainer? There's a huge library of workouts out there (see [0] as just an example), but mostly targeted at % FTP. The flow path is generally create your workout in an app to generate the FIT file, then upload to the bike computer (or use Zwift). But they tend to not support cadence range as yours does. Would love to find s…

I’m using the peloton only. I bought a little iPad/phone mount that I put on the handlebars. I run the app on my iPad, put the peloton in “just ride” mode (no subscription needed) and match the cadence/resistance with the web app.

When it comes to cycling I’m a complete novice which is why the workouts have resistance as % of total (what peloton does) and I recently added an option where you can switch to relevant effort in settings.

I appreciate this comment because I didn't know what people typically did for creating their own workouts and recently learned about FTP. I'm going to look into this!

There are several interesting projects around peloton hacking that have served as inspiration:

- [0] Peloton android app side loader: https://github.com/doudar/Openpelo

- [1] Overlays metrics on the Peloton: https://github.com/selalipop/grupetto

- [2] Bookmarklet to overlay cadence/resistance on web classes (this is what I started with): https://gist.github.com/rocng/2ff577948569ce0764b8938687841b...

- [3] Decodes Peloton metrics from the serial port: https://github.com/ihaque/pelomon

- [4] Transform Peloton into a smart trainer: https://github.com/doudar/SmartSpin2k/

These can be used in combination to use your Peloton with Zwift. Groupetto and Pelomon are really interesting. I'd like to integrate with something like Groupetto and use OpenPelo to have the full experience on the Peloton itself. That's kind of the end game, but I think the web app is the most approachable and easiest to get started with -- at least for me.

Re: Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Post by kordlessagain »

I have built a cross platform containerized Codex: https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/codex-container

100% of the code I produce now is written by this framework. I am working on several projects that will be in production shortly (and have done this before without AI).

I also use it to index websites and manage nanobanana prompts. So it’s production ready for me.

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