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If your app has to display stuff, you have no code kits available that can help you out. No vibe coding needed.

If your app has to do something useful, your app just exploded in complexity and corner cases that you will have to account for and debug. Also, if it does anything interesting that the LLM has not yet seen a hundred thousand times, you will hit the manual button quite quickly.

Claude especially (with all its deserved praise) fantasizes so much crap together while claiming absolute authority in corner cases, it can become annoying.

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That makes sense, I can see how once things get complex or novel, the LLMs start to struggle. I don't think my app is doing anything complex.

For now, my MVP is pretty simple: a small app for people to listen to soundscapes for focus and relaxation. Even if no one uses, at least it's going to be useful to me and it will be a fun experiment!

I’m thinking of starting with React + Supabase (through Lovable), that should cover most of what I need early on. Once it’s out of the survival stage, I’ll look into adding more complex functionality.

Curious, in your experience, what’s the best way to keep things reliable when starting simple like this? And are there any good resources you can point to?

You can make that. The only ai coding tools i have liked is openai codex and claude code. I would start with working with it to create a design document in markdown to plan the project. Then i would close the app to reset context, and tell it to read that file, and create an implementation plan for the project in various phases. Then i would close context, and have it start implementing. I dont always like that many steps, but for a new user it can help see ways to use the tools

That’s a good advice, thank you!

I already have a feature list and a basic PRD, and I’m working through the main wireframes right now.

What I’m still figuring out is the planning and architecture side, how to go from that high-level outline to a solid structure for the app. I’d rather move step by step, testing things gradually, than get buried under too much code where I don’t understand anything.

I’m even considering taking a few React courses along the way just to get a better grasp of what’s happening under the hood.

Do you know of any good resources or examples that could help guide this kind of approach? On how to break this down, what documents to have?

Maybe react native if you like react

Learning how to get it to run build steps was a big boost in my initial productivity when learning the cli tools

I've always wanted to make an app like this. I think you could do a lot with procedural generation and some clever DSP.

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