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Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

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Many people talk about vibe-coding and about the different ways to use this development "methodology" successfully. I wonder though if anyone really managed to push to production anything that has been fully or almost fully created through LLM assisted coding. Do you have anything to share, whether you or someone else created it? Possibly something more complex than a static webpage.

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If by production you mean “done” and used by someone (i.e. by me) then I made https://skidmarks.club to replace my peloton subscription. You can browse and ride at https://app.skidmarks.club.

I’ve done ~10 rides with it so far. Hoping I can convince my wife to use it and save myself $50 a month. That would be my most successful side project by a wide margin.

There are probably a lot of examples like this. Vibe coded software people made for themselves, and other people could use it if they wanted.

All of the code was reviewed by myself, and I’m a programmer, so not sure if that fits the description. I didn’t go through it with a fine-toothed comb, however, and 90% of the review was on my phone. I also did some non-vibed setup for hosting, db, email, etcetera.

To me vibe coding is not looking at any of the code at all, but the definition reads a little loose to me these days, especially on HN, as: did an LLM “type” most of the code or did you? Either way I don’t think the term or definition is a big deal and probably not worth splitting hairs over.

What’s your setup to review (presumably) PRs on your phone?

I just use the GitHub mobile app and turn my phone sideways

Skid marks… not quite the skid marks I was thinking. Sorta fitting for a vibe coded app to be called skid mark though.

I thought it was a fun play on words

I was going to build this. Thanks for saving me the time!

Use the feedback button in the bottom right for feature requests or any feedback!

What do you mean you used your phone for code review?

I've lately seen a trend where people use their phone to instruct agent on the cloud to build applications. I presume this is beyond having RDP on your phone

I use Claude Code on the mobile app, it creates a PR, I click the link which takes me to the GitHub mobile app, I turn my phone landscape and scroll through the code. I give feedback in the Claude mobile app if needed and it pushes additional commits.

I try to keep my instructions pretty targeted so there aren’t too many LOC and files changed. That’s the goal at least.

I deploy on Vercel, so I get a preview build link I can click in the PR and try the site before I merge to main (trunk based). I use Supabase so if there is a DB migration I just run it in the Supabase console by copy pasting the SQL.

When I merge the PR it deploys to prod. This works pretty well for me.

I’m doing something similar, but using convex

Makes life much easier

Curious about what you're using as a cycling platform -- just the Peloton, or are you on a bike trainer? There's a huge library of workouts out there (see [0] as just an example), but mostly targeted at % FTP. The flow path is generally create your workout in an app to generate the FIT file, then upload to the bike computer (or use Zwift). But they tend to not support cadence range as yours does. Would love to find something that gives me %FTP and cadence range!

[0] https://whatsonzwift.com/workouts

I’m using the peloton only. I bought a little iPad/phone mount that I put on the handlebars. I run the app on my iPad, put the peloton in “just ride” mode (no subscription needed) and match the cadence/resistance with the web app.

When it comes to cycling I’m a complete novice which is why the workouts have resistance as % of total (what peloton does) and I recently added an option where you can switch to relevant effort in settings.

I appreciate this comment because I didn't know what people typically did for creating their own workouts and recently learned about FTP. I'm going to look into this!

There are several interesting projects around peloton hacking that have served as inspiration:

- [0] Peloton android app side loader: https://github.com/doudar/Openpelo

- [1] Overlays metrics on the Peloton: https://github.com/selalipop/grupetto

- [2] Bookmarklet to overlay cadence/resistance on web classes (this is what I started with): https://gist.github.com/rocng/2ff577948569ce0764b8938687841b...

- [3] Decodes Peloton metrics from the serial port: https://github.com/ihaque/pelomon

- [4] Transform Peloton into a smart trainer: https://github.com/doudar/SmartSpin2k/

These can be used in combination to use your Peloton with Zwift. Groupetto and Pelomon are really interesting. I'd like to integrate with something like Groupetto and use OpenPelo to have the full experience on the Peloton itself. That's kind of the end game, but I think the web app is the most approachable and easiest to get started with -- at least for me.

Skidmarks club? Tell me you don't have a product person without telling me...

It's just a silly name :)

You may not have looked at the landing page: https://www.skidmarks.club

Keep in mind that a lot of vibe-coded software is flying under the radar because it’s being built to replace SaaS and bring workflows in-house. We often judge success by public launches or ARR, but the real "killer app" for this methodology right now is internal tooling for small teams. For example, instead of spending developer bandwidth integrating Salesforce into first-party data, teams are increasingly just vibe-coding a bespoke CRM or CMS as an appendage to their existing database. It’s complex software (state, auth, heavy logic), but it will never be on Product Hunt because it's purely for internal utility. The success metric here isn't "did we get 10k users," it's "did we avoid a $50k contract and weeks of integration hell."

I agree with your assessment, as a full stack dev with CS degree that just kinda waltzed into Salesforce for the last 5 years. Claude is more capable at delivering the customizability that Salesforce tried to offer with it's "clicks not code" approach. the only thing these CRMs have going for them is enterprise entrenchment.

I also work at Stripe and will be recommending that we migrate our CPQ off of Salesforce for various reasons (agent force is butt, platform limits are silly in 2025 - 6 meg max heap size for a backend transaction?????).

Yes this is like anyone sucessfully used their microwave over has anyone started a 1000 location fast food chain. At scale there are more microwaves than maccas.

True. I’m vibe coding and I realize I can combine a bunch of saas into 1 mega app.

Greatest feeling ever

I own a small bar and inventory management is either spreadsheets or saas products meant for larger operations. With the exclusion of some very small changes (e.g., deleting dead code) it’s 100% written using Claude Code. Initial design was generated from markdown documentation I wrote, and each change has been careful and incremental. A few blind alleys lead in the wrong direction, but was always easy enough to back up and try a different approach.

Database migrations and anything related to calculations have had a fair bit of hand holding. Beyond tests it writes I do still test by hand for confidence.

It’s coming up to a year of use. Claude Code credits has still not exceeded the cost of a paid product. I don’t count my time here because this doubles as keeping my technical side busy, and it’s been enjoyable.

This is a strange space in software. I have a tiny tissue culturing lab in my home and wanted to manage media batches and their ingredients, cultures using the batches of media, inventory for media ingredients, and general inventory for running things. Cleaning, cutting, measuring, etc. I couldn't find anything which would allow me to keep stock of what I've got in the structure I needed, let alone while also project things like "I've got enough inventory for n batches of y media". And all of the half-measure inventory software was expensive as hell.

I also built a solution for myself that was largely vibe coded. The underlying schema for inventories, batches, orders, cultures, etc was done in advance to help guide Claude along with documentation, but I'd guess 75 percent of the code is pure Claude.

It has worked really well for a while now. Since it's just me using it and I'm able to roll with issues it causes or verify outputs on the fly if I want to, it's totally fine not being super polished. It meaningfully increases my productivity by allowing me to manage things in a way that fits my mental model and business.

Like you, the cost of the project has been less than a subscription. And the subscriptions wouldn't even do what I needed.

You're doing tissue culture at home?! That's impressive. I imagine you've got some background in bio - what projects are you working on?

Tissue culture is a thing in the Cannabis world for efficiently reproducing and storing different varieties. I think it can also be used to create non-infected plants from plants infected with hop latent viroid.

I think the main issue is maintaining sterile conditions but its doable.

That's right, it's very doable.

The technique for creating clean plants from infected plants is really cool and remarkably simple. You typically take tissue from the part of the plant called the meristem, where cells are actively dividing and less likely to be infected, then rapidly disinfect and transfer the tissue to a sterile culture.

It seems like it should be such a sophisticated and complex process, but all you're doing is cutting a chunk of fresh cells out and popping it into some goo where it can continue to grow.

Extracting meristem tissue is usually the only difficult part. They can be extremely tiny. It takes a sharp eye and very steady hands. I've only done it for practice, never out of necessity. I'm pretty bad at it.

It seems kind of like magic if you ignore the biologal machinery. It makes perfect sense why it works, yet it's also absolutely crazy that it does.

Haha, no background. I might be the least educated person I know. I just enjoy learning new things, and this happened to stick with me. It's a very gratifying thing to do.

I culture plants which are popular in aquariums and terrariums. It's a nice way to get a break from software and science where I spend my days, get my hands dirty, enjoy refining different skills, make some money, and meet different types of people.

I happened to go to brunch at a fancy restaurant on New Years Day. They were still updating their wine inventory with a spreadsheet.

Spreadsheets can work but get clumsy really fast. Bottle cost can vary as costs change (case discounts, price changes.. and holding inventory of an item across multiple purchases), audit logging (spelunking into the undo history), multiple staff interacting with the system.. All solved problems, just not at the price point or UX we need at this scale.

I’ve pushed a full-stack educational platform for parents, My DigitAlly, to production using what we call "Systematic AI Collaboration" (a matured version of vibe-coding). It isn't a static site; it’s a production app with: Full Auth: Google OAuth and email/password. Engagement Engine: A node-cron system that automatically sends weekly tips to 200+ subscribers every Saturday. Dynamic Curriculum: A 5-block lesson flow driven by a JSON-based instructional design framework. Automated Resources: Auth-aware server-side PDF generation for parent checklists.

The "Methodology" that made it work: We moved from initial idea to production in four weekends while I maintained a full-time role. The key was moving past "chaotic vibes" and treating different LLMs like specialized team members: A) Strategic Layer (Gemini Pro): Used for architectural decisions (React/Vite, Node/Express, PostgreSQL/Prisma) and product prioritization.

B) Execution Layer (Claude Code): Used for heavy lifting—implementing the cron jobs, refactoring API patterns, and writing the test suite.

C) TDD as the Guardrail: We never "just coded." Every AI-generated feature followed a strict Test-Driven Development cycle using Vitest. If the tests didn't pass, the code didn't go to production.

The result is a stable system serving 200+ active users with a codebase that doesn't feel "schizophrenic" because we maintained strict cognitive boundaries and context documents for the AI to follow.

mydigitally.co.uk

This is written like some over-professional marketing ad or something. Like trying to defend its qualify even though it was vibe-coded. Not against vibe coded apps, this reads weird.

Touché. The corporate voice is a hazard of my day-job of 15 yrs.

It is 100% vibe-coded/AI-assisted. I'm just trying to layer actual engineering discipline (TDD, proper DB migrations) on top of that workflow so it doesn't break when actual parents use it. Thanks for the feedback.

I’ve built and launched numerous SaaS products (which have paying customers) which were almost entirely built usibg AI agents including https://securitybot.dev and https://dependencydesk.com.

My experience so far has been if you possess both deep domain-specific experience and significant coding experience then these coding LLMs, and most notably Opus 4.5, are the greatest productivity booster in the world.

Looks great! If you don't mind sharing, what is the revenue and profit?

Thanks for sharing. Are you getting customers by outreach, seo, ads or some other way?

It differs according to product. SecurityBot.dev has solid SEO because I put a lot of focused work into the landing pages. Interest in DependencyDesk has come exclusively through showing it directly to industry contacts.

The latter is partly what I was getting at regarding domain expertise because with that expertise comes an industry network. AI is great but if you’re creating solutions in search of a problem then the code doesn’t matter because nobody will need/want your product. I feel like your chances of success are much higher if you’ve personally felt the pain your product intends to solve, and that pain is built into the domain expertise people accrue over a long period of time.

I built https://screenshot2charts.com, a tool that turns screenshots or CSV/JSON into editable charts. It solves the annoying problem of re-creating messy charts for reports and presentations, especially when all you have is a blurry screenshot of either a chart or some numbers.

From my experience, the biggest difference between vibe-coded projects that go somewhere and the ones that don’t isn’t code quality, it’s whether the builder keeps talking to users after the first version. The “vibe” gets you to ship, but iteration discipline is what turns it into something real.

This is extremely well done, very easy to use and looks awesome. From the few tests I did it absolutely nailed it. I'm impressed!

Is this AI powered as well as being AI coded?

Here is an web app that tracks the grocery prices of my shopping at Aldi. It is meant to track grocery price inflation over time. It is obviously limited and incomplete since it is just based on my haphazard Aldi shopping. It includes a "basket of goods" total for each quarter, graphs, product pages, etc. It is coded by an LLM (except for maybe the initial commit). I don't write or edit the code, but I do sometimes "look" at the code, and ask for changes based on what code I see, so purists might question it as being 100% vibe coded.

https://aldi-prices.lawruk.com/ https://github.com/jimlawruk/aldi-prices

Funny, i created an extension that does does something similar. I wanted to watch specific products at a grocery store that go on sale and look for the pattern. It opens page that has been flagged to watch and extracts data and then charts results for various things i want to track. It was more of a POC which has lead to some other data scraping apps i wanted. I am not a developer but know enough having worked around tech for awhile i can usually figure something out. claude has been amazing for me, especially since i can ask questions about its code/logic and learn as we go.

this reminds me of the MIT billion prices project

Not sure how you would define successful though. I built a Firefox addon almost entirely through vibe coding and I know at least 5 other random souls on the Internet who have used and thanked me for it. But it is by no stretch, if popularity or how much money it makes, are the measures.

I was trying to test the theory if it's even possible to release something production grade with vibe coding. Wrote about the experience here https://kau.sh/blog/container-traffic-control/

Windows 11 is quite popular.

bad vibes

Piece Together is an animated puzzle game that I built with a fairly heavy reliance on agentic coding, especially for scaffolding. I did have to jump in and tweak some things manually (the piece-matching algorithm, responsive design, etc.), but overall I'd wager that LLMs handled about 80% of the work.

I've never seen anything like it since the original days of the game "The Island of Dr. Brain" released in the early 90s.

https://mordenstar.com/projects/piece-together

Love this. May a recommend some kind of "disperse pieces to edge" feature/button, (or perhaps automatic behavior, flag-to-enable or not), so that when you zoom-out a bit, you can automatically "disperse" all the pieces to the edge or at least "equally space them" in the available space, etc.

I.e. the problem is a lot of time spent on moving the pieces off-of each other. While this is more pleasent in real-life tactile space, not as much fun when using the computer to have to click-and-drag all the pieces around (of course, sorting them etc, is up to the user, but just some kind of initial "see all the pieces in the space without them overlapping each other to the greatest extent possible depending on the total space avaliable given the current zoom settings" ...

That's a good idea! I honestly futzed way too long trying to make this playable on smaller screens with that in mind.

The Shuffle button actually tries to spread the pieces out to cover the current zoom level, but it can still result in some of them being obscured. I'll look into implementing a more even distribution.

Love it, bookmarked! The animation adds another layer of strategy to jigsaw!

I built two small products mostly using AI-assisted coding (plus a lot of manual glue work).

One is Solo Launches, a Product Hunt–style platform for solo founders where you can launch your SaaS for free. I built it in ~15 days as a self-taught dev. It’s live, used by real users, and started making revenue recently (~$100+ in December, verifiable on TrustMRR). https://sololaunches.com

While growing it, I focused a lot on distribution and SEO. By submitting it to relevant directories, I managed to increase its DR noticeably. That process later turned into a second small product, listmy.site, where I help others get similar directory-based backlinks. https://listmy.site

Both are fairly simple full-stack apps, but they’re in production, have real users, and generate revenue — mostly built with LLM help + iteration. Happy to share more details about the stack or workflow if useful.

Happy New Year

How do you get that nice UI?

Vibe coded this with my son. Something I always wanted since we often record sporting events and want to know if it’s worth watching. So, successful in that sense and works in real time.

https://www.donttellmethescore.com/nfl

Gives me a sever error

Sorry, just a vercel free tier project used by two people… Perhaps this is too much success. Seems to be a rate limit on one of the free data sources I use. Should be vibe-fixed now.

Hug of death. Wonder if it's due to HN readers or the LLMs perpetually scanning threads saw the URL and hammered it looking for novel content?

I once created a pomodoro multiplayer application after being frustrated by https://cuckoo.team (although good software, nothing against the team) just not working/actively glitching

spocklet-pomodo.hf.space/

I created it as a single main.go with just a single main dependency (gorilla websockets iirc) and I think It's pretty successfull between me and my friends and I am not thinking of monetizing it ever

There is also https://spocklet-beta-pomodo.hf.space/ which has some more features to make it more user friendly that I got suggestion for so yeah

I made it out of complete frustration and the first prototype was built in <30 minutes but I guess I won't really take credit of it because I am just pleasant that I can now use such a software and perhaps other might too.

I don't know but I am very gloomy about AI mostly but prototyping in domains I don't know too much about to create a "just good enough" for my own use case is the only valid use case I find of it I guess.

I made one for myself (and my son, both type 1 diabetics) and decided that I might roll it into a possible possible product: https://carbcount.ai

Allows diabetics to easily get carb estimates for their meals by just snapping a picture. Free for now, would love some feedback.

I built the basic idea in like 2 days using Google Antigravity. It's all serverless on Google cloud run and uses Google for auth, doesn't store any data. MVP while I am working on the marketing and testing.

I used a similar concept I originally used to train my son (9yo) to be better at counting his carbs with a custom GPT. But that idea didn't work for others to use. Most people don't know what a 'custom GPT' is, so explaining it was difficult. Web-apps everyone gets, it has PWA support so you can save it as an 'app' on your phone.

I am a software engineer so it's already in my wheelhouse and it just costs me the tokens right now so it's cheap to run.

Would love feedback or questions if anyone wants to know more.

here is a basic youtube short of it in action: https://youtube.com/shorts/Kb9NQIbZCP8

Qwen3-Coder on 20gb of vram was able to do 90% of this: https://gist.github.com/gatlin/4bee9645b96e8b9e733960453b972...

Problem statement: given a start date and a bible book / chapter, produce a reading schedule for the remainder of the bible assuming one will read 3 chapters every day and 2 extra on Sunday.

So assuming an input of "2025-07-06 Genesis 1," the list would read "Saturday, June 6, 2025: Genesis 1 (3 chapters) \n Sunday, June 7, 2025: Genesis 4 (5 chapters)..." etc.

It created the types, data structures, and utility functions required, and even isolated the schedule generation to a function that used all of them ... and that function was busted. It printed the same book and chapter and date every line.

With a little elbow grease I was able to bring it home. Saved me an hour.

https://www.pixelhook.app/

My friend vibe coded the entire app to generate thumbnails for YouTube videos.

Nothing against your friend but what a hellish product

It's hard to know whether the blame should lie with the friend or YouTube

Is he getting any traction?

I made 'Great Filter' - Chrome extension to filter content on social media based on custom instructions in natural language (using LLM). Supports HN, too!

Most of it was written by Claude Code. It even created the extension's logo (in SVG). Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/great-filter/mbifgf... Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s50bI_O5tps

Which LLM does this use? I'm guessing this sends client data to 3P servers?

I vibe coded a windows shell extension that renders thumbnails for 10-bit videos. Windows does not do this out of the box.

I also built a Preview Pane Handler for 10-bit videos.

The installers (WIX) were vibe coded as well.

So was the product website and stripe integration. I created a bespoke license generation system on checkout.

I don’t think I wrote a single line of C++ code although the WIX installers and website did receive minimal manual adjustments.

Started with Claude but then at some point during development Codex got really good so I used only that.

https://ruptureware.com

There's two main apps that I've built. It's been a hell of a journey but a fun one, I'll list them below, but the most fun was actually adding an "explore" feature to my site to make it a bit more fun and interactive over the christmas break - https://blazingbanana.com/ - I might keep it, might not but was cool to see what can be done in browser with WebGL.

https://blazingbanana.com/work/whistle - Whistle, which is a complete free, offline voice transcription app using whisper, available on all platforms, Linux, Mac, Windows (with CUDA builds), Android (and iOS as soon as my dev account goes through, who knew paying Apple £79 would be so hard!). To be honest the packaging part was probably the toughest bit and all the different ways each platform needs to build. - Probably my most "successful" one, at 450+ downloads on the Play store.

https://formait.app/ - Free offline document formatting using LLMs to take a load of unstructured notes and give you a nice PDF output. You can load any GGUF model you throw at it as it's implementing llama.cpp, but uses Phi-4 out the box. It's actually quite a useful combination with Whistle, so thinking of integrating voice to text in at some point. This is available on all platforms (except mobile) with CUDA builds available too.

I have built a cross platform containerized Codex: https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/codex-container

100% of the code I produce now is written by this framework. I am working on several projects that will be in production shortly (and have done this before without AI).

I also use it to index websites and manage nanobanana prompts. So it’s production ready for me.

I’ve shipped multiple apps that are largely LLM-assisted. One of it is called Toolbit (Repo: https://github.com/alwin-augustin/toolbit), which is a collection of 20+ dev utilities like formatting JSON, generating UUID, JSON validation etc. I have been using JSON formatters all the time, but worried about whether they are sending it to server and so built this one so as it will do the processing on client side only.

Another application I have built is Remotedays (remotedays.app), which is a compliance tool for Luxembourg based companies to track cross border workers. This is recently finished and starting to reach out initial customers. There is a demo for this app is available in public at demo.remotedays.app

I have used Claude Code and Google Antigravity IDE. The Antigravity is used whenever I exceeded the Claude limits (which happens often). If you have an architecture about the product in mind, you can clearly use these tools as force multipliers. In my experience, Claude is the best, especially when you use it with the skills.

I've found that one of the best use-cases is to create simple tools. Similar to what simonw does. I've done so here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/clean_logs/ or more descriptively here: https://www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/thoughts/2025-12-04-are-we... (at the bottom). LLMs are really good at coming up with code from scratch, and getting a lot of the boilerplate out of the way. If you want changes though, it helps to be a programmer and be familiar with the stack.

I've also created a more real "app" at https://www.hunchle.com, which is a trivia app. It was a real challenge since LLMs hallucinate all over the place, and given labs are benchmaxxing, it gives me a real good idea for how good LLMs really are.

I have built https://dhee.apratiratha.in (https://github.com/mahesh-hegde/dhee) with AI assistance.

It's a website to read and analyze the Rig-veda.

It's not fully "vibe coded" but lots and lots of AI usage.

Not sure this counts as "successful" yet (invite-only beta, still rough), but I'm building a full product almost entirely via LLM-assisted coding.

Tangents (https://tangents.chat) is an Angular/Nest/Postgres app for thinking-with-LLMs without losing the thread.

- Branch: select any span (user or assistant) and branch it into a tangent thread so the main thread stays coherent.

- Collector: collect spans across messages/threads into curated context, then prompt with it.

- You can inspect a "what the model will see" preview and keep a stored context-assembly manifest.

Vibe-coding aspect: about 600 commits and about 120k LOC (tests included) and I have not handwritten the implementation code. I do write specs/docs/checklists and I run tests/CI like normal.

What made it workable for something larger than a static page:

- Treat the model like a junior dev: explicit requirements plus acceptance criteria, thin slices, one change at a time.

- Keep "project truth" in versioned docs (design system plus interface spec) so the model does not drift.

- Enforce guardrails: types, lint, tests, and a strict definition of "done."

- The bottleneck is not generating code, it is preventing context/spec drift and keeping invariants stable across hundreds of changes.

If you define "vibe coding" as "I never look at the code," I do not think serious production apps fit that. But if you define it as "the LLM writes the code and you steer via specs/tests," it is possible to build something non-trivial.

Happy to answer specifics if anyone cares (workflow, tooling, what breaks first, etc.).

If what you mean by vibe-coding is building a full app without writing/reading/touching code, the furthest I got with it is this game: https://qpingpong.codeinput.com (source: https://github.com/omarabid/qpingpong)

After a while, you hit a maxima where the LLM can't really add anything without breaking something else. You are always limited by what you know (which if you fully vibe coded the thing, then it's nothing?). You can get a bit farther by decomposing parts of the app into react components but after that you are stuck.

In real life, any clearly "vibe-coded" product was practically a shit-show especially in terms of UX. You can see the UI but things are quite unstable/unreliable. I have yet to see a fully vibe-coded product that actually works.

I'm not sure how you would define "successfully," but I've created 3 different Windows apps using nothing but vibe coding (I'm not a coder) that I use for work and one app I use for exercise (a basic, browser based Tabata program that for whatever reason does more than any android app I've been able to find, and for free). They're fairly simple things, but they get the job done in ways that did not exist for me before.

And, again, I'm not a coder and only know the absolute basics of programming. This is not something I would have been able to do without AI assistance.

There's also the fact that many programmers working on software today both big and small use AI to one degree or another, maybe not to program the whole thing from scratch, but definitely to help ease the process. It's an invaluable tool.

Created modfin.lyfbits.com. Wrote it to help me model and determine various types of investment scenarios. Continuing to work on it. Not strictly vibe-coded. I use a brainstorm -> write specs with Gemini (requirements, APIs, user journeys, user experiences etc.) -> ask Claude to implement from Specs -> iterate and refine until it is exactly what I want it to be.

I have found that the initial specs only go so far; as I use, "what's missing" becomes clearer.

Workflow is build -> checkin to git -> build container -> deploy to Cloud Run. I have a number of instructions for Claude for logs, frontend, backend, logging etc. based on my past experience. Note that I am mostly a backend developer (AWS, Azure, GCP); I can't code frontend to save my life and on that front, the agents are helping me realize ideas rapidly.

I've made a few small projects that were built almost exclusively with Cursor (if that's considered vibe coding, I'm not sure). They don't have many users.

https://spikelog.com

https://runnem.com

https://leveloh.com

https://thefudgesisters.com

https://hop.coffee

I'm write a few articles here about tricks that work for me when it comes to AI assisted coding: https://foundinglean.substack.com

I like the coffee one!

Getting users is the real challenge unfortunately! I'm experiencing the same with my trivia app.

I am a veteran teacher and not a coder. Since the explosion of ChatGPT a few years ago, I've been vibe coding. It was a really painful experience of me trying to constantly debug the AI's code. However, the AI's abililty in code production and debug has improved so much and so fast, that I trust its ability above my own. I fully vibe coded https://ieltstutor.ai from scratch. That's right. I didn't write one line of code. I created the code, the content, the pictures, and the audio files with AI. All I had to do and still does is the higher level of engineering as well as the course editing.

I produced https://lynxprompt.com as an IDE/tool-agnostic AI config rules generator & catalog, via CLI & WebUI. There is a lot of love (and $$$) put in the Wizard generator, you can check it both via CLI or WebUI.

I've got some users and the stuff I can do each time I start doing vibecoding is astounding. Obviously 50% the work is just fixing what the AI didn't understood or imagined too much, but having a good AGENTS.md is key (and patience from me) - so that's why I'm buidling LynxPrompt indeed, for having an easy way to own a good AGENTS.md file for my next projects... and hopefully you too.

https://behavior.today

I cloned Paddle's NextJS starter kit[1] and incorporated my previous reporting code built with Observable Framework[2].

It actually took longer to get the website (domain, terms, privacy) approved by Paddle and my identity verified by its 3rd party than to vibe code the site with Claude Code.

[1] https://github.com/PaddleHQ/paddle-nextjs-starter-kit

[2] https://github.com/observablehq/framework

I built an iptv proxy that supports scheduled recordings, as well as proxying playlist and binary protocol streaming. Containerized I run this for my wife who watches a lot of foreign tv. This last weekend I built from scratch a event driven design simulator for visualizing my system design work with a godot gamified presentation so I can step thru event impact with people rather than looking at static diagrams. I wrote none of the code. Spent maybe 2 hours refactoring some things, but nothing significant. Passed my reviews, was very pleased with results. Quite liking codex models, though still get faster iterations and good results with sonnet.

I built https://www.agentsfordata.com entirely in Cursor agent mode

I have rebuilt it a few times in agent mode while trying to get pmf. I used about 22B tokens this year

It just boggles my mind that anyone would use something like this. Why would one send their data to some unknown company that internally likely just delegates the work to one of the big AI labs?

I can promise you no one is using it

This has become a pretty pointless thing to clarify now but

"Vibe coding" and "AI-assisted coding" are NOT the same.

There's a spectrum of AI use from none to full (vibe coding).

Claude Code is probably the best known example of a product claimed to be coded with AI-assistance to the point of much of it being autonomous now guided by experts. My experience is that is now the norm for many senior engineers and it's certainly the future. I don't know any that are truly vibe-coded but I would imagine plenty of mobile apps.

I've built a tool that skips Spotify tracks I've scrobbled recently on Last.fm.

It was entire built by ChatGPT and Cursor, with me only providing the guidance, without writing any code.

I use the app daily, as I've included it in Windows startup and don't ever turn it off.

You can see more about it here and even download a release of an older version: https://github.com/Vatroslav/spotify-auto-skipper

Yes, Jmail.

It’s a suite of tools to navigate the Epstein files—it even made it into the news!

Here’s the HackerNews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600

Why didn't you call it Appstein?

Epste-mail

I am not a software developer. But i have been progressively learning and building with help of AI - initially chatgpt, then cursor, now claude code and codex. I've been building https://thecrux.is/

I think it meets the brief - has a supabase backend, fairly complex workflows (inngest) etc. Too early to say "successful" but in production! I welcome questions & feedback

I have a few vibe coded bots hanging around on discord and reddit that are helping out. One's posting cards for the game terraforming mars in response to users requesting it for example. They're appreciated by the community.

It's simple but i wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't a 10minute "Hey Claude create a ..." job. Having programmed a Reddit bot back in 2014 for xwing miniatures it took me several days to create it back then.

Yes, vibe coding is SO good for allowing programmers to write those scripts that would have been too tedious to do pre-2022.

i am about to incorporate my first business, https://querypanel.io. I vibe coded it, but i reviewed every line of code. I created the architecture on my own so i would say it was spec driven. I have 15+ years of experience in engineering and i think AI is a good thing if you consider your self as an engineer. It speeds things up. Specially opus 4.5 or gemini 3 pro.

A lightweight GTK Linux chat client that is not based on any web tech and supports most of the features offered by the various API's out there such as audio and image gen.

https://github.com/rabfulton/ChatGTK

I'm sure the code can be critisized, but I'm happily using the application I wanted that did not exist having never programmed python in my life.

i'm vibe coding vibium, a test automation tool in the spirit of playwright and selenium. (was #1 on hn last week for a little bit with a lively discussion.)

I commented your project in this thread lol, but since my account has low score the comment is probably hidden to most folks, so thanks for sharing about Vibium here.

I'm following your progress since I asked a similar "Ask HN" a couple of weeks ago, it's been interesting checking your (and Claude's) work/commits on https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium/commits/main/

What's your tooling look like? Favorite model?

claude code 100%

AI-assisted programming IS NOT "vibe coding" Yes, I have three big webistes (more than 10 million pages) in production, made with AI-assistance.

My friend created an iPhone app that controls a set of MCP servers that will control all the smart things in his house. Completely vibe coded. The servers are in Python, which he can read but not really write, and the app is in Swift, which he doesn't understand at all.

https://github.com/adrianco/c11s-house-ios

MCP to turn on a light bulb?

It's a little more complicated than that. :). He has 100s of smart things from tens of providers, and they all work differently. He wants to be able to do things like say "light the path from the bedroom to the kitchen with dim light" and have it do the right thing, which means turning on all the lights with their various APIs all to the right brightness, and understanding what lights lead from the bedroom to the kitchen.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jorgevaras_i-cave-in-and-i-tr...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nosync-dj/id6752585119

I think it depends on what you call successful.

I've built products that solve my problems and have released one, Intraview.ai -- it's functional, solves a real problem for me and my customers.

That said, as a business goes, it's not a sensation but it's gone from idea to customers using it in less than 6 months. Is it a VC hit, no -- am I happy with where it is and how fast I'm learning -- absolutely!

Here's one: https://markshot.dev and a writeup at https://senkorasic.com/articles/mvp-vibe-code

It's not commercially successful (it's a side project), but still represents a complete project.

https://www.pientensuomi.fi/

Aggregator for finding things to do with kids in Finland.

At a family gathering was asking a relative how his beginner level programming course was going. Was blown away to learn that he had just vibed this and now had already a steadily increasing stream of traffic. I had already used it myself.

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium/commits/main/

This is a new browser-testing library by the creator of selenium, apparently all code commits are co-authored by claude, I'm following this repo to see how far this strategy will go

https://spaceword.org - a daily word game inspired by banana grams, where you need to arrange 21 letters in a tight square. Has around 400 daily active players.

I'm pretty familiar with the underlying stack, which helped a lot since I knew the pitfalls. But pretty much all of the code is written by an LLM.

cool idea. not seeing all tiles available at once is kinda pita as it makes it harder to come up with word choices.

I vibe coded Pantry Recipes as an experiment (and to fill a personal need), and it has paying subscribers. Certainly not commercially successful though. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantry-recipes/id6744589753

I recently built a website to visualize the polling preferences of political parties in Slovakia, https://volebneprieskumy.sk/. I wanted to see an interactive graph showing polling trends for potential coalitions, but nothing like that existed!

I built https://pagey.site fully vibe-coded (but heavily manually reviewed afterwards). Been pretty successful to say the least.

Since launching in November, more than 50 people are regularly using it. Two are actually medium-big (~200 personnel) enterprise companies.

I wrote Sum Buddy using a variety of AIs. Its a full featured AI spreadsheet. It started in Gemini's web interface and moved over to claude (which was a huge increase in capability). It has a bunch of paying customers now.

https://sumbuddy.net

lol, you brought back clippy and people pay for it?

It looks like your writing a letter. Want help?

I build a full-featured CRM built with React, shadcn/ui, and Supabase. vibe code in Antigravity + CC ($20/month) + Gemini free

https://github.com/therealtimex/realtimex-crm

I built a macOs app using swift only for my own use, to solve a problem only I might have --> https://github.com/vinayverghese/criss-cross.

I built a snippet manager in WPF, it’s not pure vibe‑coding, but roughly ~80% of the code was AI‑assisted. https://github.com/mx7b7/codesnip-wpf/

I’m currently building a fairly complex AI product this way, and the pattern has been the same: vibe-coding accelerates early progress dramatically, but production reliability only comes back once you re-introduce traditional engineering discipline.

An easy to use pickleball game schedule creation tool: https://www.pickleballdinking.com/resources/schedule.html

If by production you accept a new programming language than yes:

https://github.com/pannous/goo (1% handwritten go extensions)

This is so ironic. Why would you add all these "features" to Go, if you're not interested in using the language at all?

Why would anyone grow flowers when they can't eat them

Nostr web client https://github.com/lucianmarin/subnostr

I've wondered this myself, are tools like lovable/bolt used mainly for prototypes or can you ship, maintain, and scale, actual products with it?

Is it different for Claude?

Ever wish finding help was as easy as texting a friend?

"I need a plumber in Austin who can come this week" "Looking to sell my MacBook Pro" "I'm offering piano lessons for beginners"

That's literally all you have to say.

Our AI understands what you need and connects you with people who can help. No endless scrolling. No complicated filters. No frustration.

Just speak your find.

https://speakyourfind.com/

Busy coding up a variety of MCP server. Not a saas but I’d consider them success in that they do what I want

With all the AI hype lately, if a product like that actually existed, you would’ve heard about it by now.

calmshows - discover and organise shows and movies:

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/calmshows/id6749471333

ios and web app and openapi spec

Equilateral.ai is GLIDE coded. Governed vibes with standards and security baked in.

This probably doesn't count as an "app" in terms of what you're looking for, but was a fun little project

https://alexjacobs08.github.io/lobsters-graph/

(i built this in search of a lobste.rs invite if anyone willing and able sees this--email in my bio :)

Nice site, runs very smoothly on Firefox.

vibecoded for moar vibecoding: https://h0p3.nekoweb.org/#sandworm

I have built a POS for restaurants. 100% vibe coded.

FWIW, I am building a market place app in rails and trying to vibe code the majority of it. Mostly with Gemini CLI + Cursor.

Its been very decent so far. Time will tell if the PMF is there for the MVP, but thats on the product, not the AI generated code slop.

FYI, this was more of a hobby horse + learning project than an "enterprise SaaS requiring SOC2 compliance." I am basically building a toy. So far, I have learned that you can ship code toys very quickly to test a market demand with an MVP.

Not sure about success - but I vibe-coded a Chrome extension that uses your fal.ai API key to create/edit AI images/videos in a visual workflow:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/dogg...

I think it's decent complexity for something where I didn't even write one line of code. (all Claude Code)

You define ‘successful’ as ‘managed to push to production’? I think that is a disappointing low barrier.

Why do I read about all the vibe coders claiming to be 20X engineers in LLM threads and replacing many departments. Yet here is not a fking single commercially successful thing here?

Funny also how Loveable and the like are hiring engineers like crazy, yet think engineers are not needed anymore. Why not just vibecode Loveable itself? Oh wait I can tell you why.

OpenAI themselves uses vibe coding to develop their services

OpenAI is in no way "commercially successful."

You can't say they are "in no way" commercially successful when they have around one BILLION monthly users. That's just disingenuous.

Put "I don't have any experience in software engineering but can vibe code very well" on your resume and see if you get any interest from OpenAI or Anthropic or any one in the long list of companies that have declared software engineering dead and LLMs the future of coding.

It's telling that they will put their own applicants through a dozen rounds of stringent technical interviews, Leetcode exercises, use anti-AI assistance tools and pay their staff $500K or more, all for something they advertise as being easy to vibe code away.

That's a bit dishonest. Obviously, vibe coding is only productive for engineers who actually know what they're doing. Perhaps it is best to consider it a multiplier, not an enabler.

You could probably find a good answer anywhere, but the solution is in a more nuanced view.

Some types of programming benefit more from AI tooling than others. For example, prototyping seems to be the most fruitful area. Also, writing small utilities is much easier, to the extent that a two hour job would now take only a few minutes. That's where you get the multiplier posts from.

But working in a large codebase using proprietary libraries is not a solved problem for AI (yet).

It's just that the average engineer does not spend all of their time on things that can be sped up.

Speeding up 1% of your time by a factor 20 simply does not help very much. But for some roles, I'm sure that a 10% net increase in productivity is realistic.

ive seen people using lovable in the wild now, and theyve made things that they are using themselves, and are working on something like a 5-10M CAD/y business serving the oil industry.

I didnt join them because I dont really want to do all the work that comes with owning a business like the accounting. mostly the accounting. i also dont particularly want to be maintaining an extra couple of systems at present. there mught be vibe coding currently, but not vibe operations

they should have the thing up by june at their very slow rate of building with lovable, but theyre not people who would ever frequent HN.

Even worse, almost all of these links look exactly the same. Similar heros, similar calls to action, etc.

Ive even noticed fortmatting bugs that are seemingly identical on two different websites lol

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