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Comment by joshribakoff | Hacker News Reader

This is a very low quality submission. Its a vibe coded app that gives me a chat ui. When i ask for soup it shows me t shirts.

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It’s using AISDK and MCP-UI, which is standard for chats. If you check the cart in the input, there’s only 2 stores added for now.

Also, that chat is just one part of it. Those stores are running on Openfront, our Shopify alternative. Please check our ethos to get the full vision.

Also, I was working on this before AI. Openfront and the/marketplace are part of an ecosystem. We built Openship, an e-commerce order management system, years ago.

Don’t confuse vibe coding with a low effort build, vibe coding can lead to the high-quality, amazing products. I’m just here to protect the vibe coding phenomenon :D

It's just a semantic disagreement. In my experience, "vibe coding" means "software made with genAI, casually iterated until it passes tests and appears to work, without exhaustive or experienced review of the output, and is therefore often bad." It doesn't have to mean that, but in practice that seems to be the dominant definition currently.

I watched YouTube howtos, and read 1000 stackoverflow results around 2016 and made my own saas for the construction industry in PHP/jQuery. Was a car salesman before that. I have 34 companies using it today. I promise you, a vibe coded app would be an improvement. So what's the problem really?

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