The small indie developer ain't dead yet, and from where I sit you could drive a star destroyer through the gaps in what software has been built so far.
It's only that you can't claim any of the top shelf prizes by vibe coding
Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
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Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#32It is indeed, and it is very much ripe for a serious review. Which is a pity because I think it is one of HN's most powerful pieces.
Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#33Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#34Time for a new category? "Slop HN: Claude built this mini tool for me" - would be lol to see the "slop" in the header right in the middle of "show | jobs" -> "show | slop | jobs"
And a lifetime ban if you show slop under 'Show HN'.
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#36Side question: I love the charts in your blog post. Would you be able to share how they were generated?
Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#37Reminds me of the quote: "Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded" Some of it is "I wish things I think are cool got more upvotes". Fare enough, I've seen plenty of things I've found cool not get much attention. That's just the nature of the internet. The other point is show and share HN stories growing in volume, which makes sense since it's now considerably easier to build things. I don't think that's a bad thi…
This is different. It's clear that the driver here is the ease with which you can use AI to spit out slop projects.
Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#38I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a result, the author (pilot?) hasn't generally thought too much about the problem space, and so there isn't really much of a discussion to be had. The cool part about pre-AI show HN is…
I see a lot of projects repeated: screen capture tool, LLM wrapper, blog/newsletter, marketing tool for reddit/twitter, manage social media accounts. These things have been around for a while so it is really easy for an LLM to spit them out for someone that does not know how to code.
Re: Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
#39The small indie developer ain't dead yet, and from where I sit you could drive a star destroyer through the gaps in what software has been built so far. It's only that you can't claim any of the top shelf prizes by vibe coding
Vibe coding as a term is really annoying. At what point does a project stops being considered vibe coded? If I spent a year iterating on a design and implementation using Claude code, in a domain I’m an expert in, will that still be considered vibe coded?