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

Post by mikert89 » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

hackerInnen wrote: post #79

wiseowise wrote: post #74

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What industry are you in and what do you do there? I’m always baffled by these “actually needs some thought” that end up being just another CRUD. Maybe you’re Peter Norvig’s alt, or Linus casually browsing on a burner account?

Anything that is safety related or needs signal control. So embedded systems and anything related. Aerospace, defense, anything. There is so so much stuff. Not even talking about AI writing HDL's. They just can't do it and put latches everywhere (they are bad. you should put registers instead)

Post by wiseowise » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 11:12 PM UTC

hackerInnen wrote: post #79

wiseowise wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What industry are you in and what do you do there? I’m always baffled by these “actually needs some thought” that end up being just another CRUD. Maybe you’re Peter Norvig’s alt, or Linus casually browsing on a burner account?

Anything that is safety related or needs signal control. So embedded systems and anything related. Aerospace, defense, anything. There is so so much stuff. Not even talking about AI writing HDL's. They just can't do it and put latches everywhere (they are bad. you should put registers instead)

Post by e12e » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #78

stets wrote: post #26

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I opened Obsidian, wrote down the steps that I performed + pieces claude did. Most of what I did was little troubleshooting bits or hooking things together. That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help. Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or thing…

My god, the amount of hate this site has for LLMs, it's unbearable. Good for you for having a project and seeing it through, all the lazy "It UsEd An LlM So It DoeSn'T CoUnT" gatekeeping doesn't belong here and I wish all those uncurious comments were flagged.

Post by stets » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC

wink wrote: post #84

I'm much more interested in the power story here. Software is easy ;) - did it come with a wall plug? - do you trust that wall plug to be on 24/7? (I've had terrible ones) - did you have to buy any extra cables? ("I had them" does not count) - how much power does it draw?

Post by stets » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #85

stavros wrote: post #78

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My god, the amount of hate this site has for LLMs, it's unbearable. Good for you for having a project and seeing it through, all the lazy "It UsEd An LlM So It DoeSn'T CoUnT" gatekeeping doesn't belong here and I wish all those uncurious comments were flagged.

I thought the content was interesting, but didn't really match the headline - I didn't learn how I could vibe code a website on a phone - I learned how I could "traditionally" deploy an existing site on a phone (ie: no help on using LLM, no information on how to create a static website).