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Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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So cool - built-in internet and UPS :) wonder if it’d be very easy to use it as a remote webcam on a farm as a bit of a fun little project?

I always read that if you keep a phone plugged in for long periods of time, its battery will eventually fail and expand into a spicy pillow, which often deforms the frame, or worse, causes fires.

The solution seems to be removing the battery and keeping it running on the charger.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app"?

I’ll fill in the part between OPs story and “then they all clapped” that he left out. He’s likely talking about “Save As”ing or scraping the DOM for rendered HTML/CSS and feeding that to an LLM to convert to actual in app wired up components.

eventually you will be able to generate a database schema/api by just feeding saas app html to an llm. you wont get everything, but you will get close

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #33

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> Can you please explain No, because they didn't program this or make these decisions, an LLM did.

I had a vision for a fun project, made decisions, tried to understand why to make certain decisions or what was working or not. I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though. tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.

ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.)

i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #18

I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

sorry but isn't this just theft²?

the time is coming when you can take screenshots of an app and generate a full backend. we are no where near the limits of what we are about to see happen to software. idk whats legal, but its soon an irrelevant question

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

#45

I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

> This field is truly on its way to full automation. What do you even mean by that? Full automation of irrelevant, simple as hell, saas apps? Maybe yes. Everything else that actually needs some thought? Nah, not happening anytime soon - given that no genius with a brand new architecture comes around tomorrow. LLMs just ain't getting any better really. It's just micro steps by now

we are no where near the limits of models with regards to software

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

#46

I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

I can't imagine ever voluntarily divulging this kind of thing to others. Anyways, drop a link so we can see what an afternoon of vibe coding is capable of.

divulging what? its not far from taking a screenshot and generating a backend. which will probably be possible some time in 2027, and is mostly possible now. the moat on software is gone for people that know how to use the tooling

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #43
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a vision for a fun project, made decisions, tried to understand why to make certain decisions or what was working or not. I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though. tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.

ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.) i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.

Thx! That's a good next step for sure. Rn git is my backup

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

#48
post #23

More like " Setting a static website on a budget Android phone ". Unsure where the vibe coding is relevant, and Walmart Phone is basically a placeholder.

Claude Code made the simple little home page and did much of the configuration of the system inside andronix. The phone is available at Walmart for $25.

Mean that essentially article is instructions on setting up the server & link to the cool site* hosted on it. Whether a LLM was used or not doesn't appear to have such relevance to be on title**. If article had the prompts or transcript showcasing how was done then could see it being there.

*Which doesn't appear static with information like memory, storage, requests, etc. More interesting than what title makes it seem.

**On the contrary, would want it to be in article itself.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #6

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> Can you please explain why [...] I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."

I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.

I mean, you said it.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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post #8
post #6

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> Can you please explain why [...] I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."

I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.

Do you? If someone asks you to change anything in the configuration, do you think you can do it without the help of AI?

That's the difference between knowing and understanding. I may read a Math proof and understanding. That doesn't mean I can replicate it or adapting to other proofs (and that's basically the Advanced Calculus tests I used to take when I was in college).

I think that's what happened to you. Someone/something (Claude) provide you with instructions you copy and pasted. You underestood them. That's different from knowing.

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