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I vibe coded the site for pxehost - https://pxehost.com

The text content is largely hand written but the style/structures/etc are vibes.

Codex CLI on the $20 plus plan

The first shot was remarkably similar to the end result, but there was lots of tweaking and testing.

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That looks great for presumably a couple of hours of work, and it showcases pxehost pretty well.

You really bury the lede that this software runs a DHCP server. Folks could really mess up their network running it on their local machine, you should add a warning somewhere. How does it determine the default gateway or DNS to advertise?

It’s not a DHCP server the way you’re thinking. Pxehost only replies with a couple fields for PXE boot, and only to clients that are declaring themselves as PXE boot client. It doesn’t interfere with the normal dhcp server - the PXE client will get 2 broadcast replies, one from pxehost and one from the dhcp server, and will combine the info

Even with something like proxy DHCP, you shouldn't have easy to follow instructions for folks to fire up a DHCP server without a warning, IMO. It's just polite to your fellow network admins.

If you know anything about PXE booting then you'll know it needs DHCP. I think it's fine, it's a pretty niche technology. You aren't likely to to find someone downloading it who doesn't know what they're setting up.

Honestly that's a great case for vibe coding, getting a splash page for a project that's not a website.

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