Has anyone else used v0.dev to build a real MVP? Would love to swap notes
Hey everyone 👋
I’ve been building products for a long time (15+ years), and I recently tried using v0.dev for the first time. Honestly didn’t expect much, but I was surprised how quickly I got something real off the ground - not just a playground UI, but a fully working fitness app with protected routes, dashboards, flow logic, the works.
It’s called The HIIT PIT — and it’s live, but that’s not why I’m posting.
I’m more curious to hear from other devs and indie makers:
• Have you tried tools like v0.dev or similar AI-based builders?
• What were the gotchas or unexpected wins?
• Would you actually ship something production-ready this way?
I still did a lot of work to stitch everything together, but it saved me a ton of time. I’m super curious how others are approaching this - especially solo builders trying to move fast.
Would love to hear your experiences or trade notes.
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Its been over a month that I have been using AI tools for web development.
I have used both IDE based AI tools - Codeium/WindSurf, Cursor and Web based AI tools - Replit, bolt.new, Lovable.dev, V0.dev, and latest Firebase Studio.
Out of all these tools, I recommend Codieum if you are looking for IDE based, or Replit for Web based development.
Replit's Agent is the game changer in terms of speed.
I was able to deploy a simple website to a custom domain under 11 hours using replit (6hrs for dev, 5 hrs for deployment), i faced some issues to deploy it on Vercel first as the developed code was following client/server architecture within the same app. I had to hard code the data in the clent app to deploy it. Here is the link goldomains.store
Later, found that this backend integration to the client app can be done easily using tools like Appwrite (Backend-as-a-service), supabase, etc.
Bolt.new is supporting Supabase straight away along with Payment gateway system Stripe integration. Making it easy for early developers to launch their own small e-commerce apps.
I have been using Cursor lately, and it's context awareness is awesome, but I couldn't find some basic shortcuts that were available in VSCode by default.
Really looking forward to see what these AI tools can do to the prospects of Web Developers, especially Frontend UI developers.
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I’m just like you—after 24 years of traditional programming, I’ve started exploring vibe coding, and it’s been a lot of fun. V0 has been great! I built careerleap.app using it, spent the last two months learning it, and I’d be happy to share everything I’ve picked up. Here is a quick video I created yesterday to show I how I am using these new tools: https://youtu.be/j5n-Z-DZUVU
@vinodsharma A few stuggles of mine are: it always deploys to prod - while I would like preview/stage to be deployed at first. And be able to sync hte code to github. Any tips on this?
At one point - v0 straight out refused to code, I had to remind it that it can code:
Yes, I've used to build an MVP! Let’s connect and share insights Piso Wifi curious how your experience compares to mine.
I wish @Vercel team could add where I can deploy the v0.dev code to a dev or staging environment not production directly and sync my code to a remote git repository!
yes I made many apps, but the best was this progressive web app - https://repspaced.vercel.app/
should I launch it?
@zhhsay Doesnt really tell me what is it just by looking at your link. How was v0 helpful?
I've built both popadex and popper using the VS Code Agent with Claude 3.7 extensively. A combination of Agent + Rails 8 and Kamal means really fast development + deployment.
i worked with it for 2 weeks building a dating app but experienced so many glitches and bugs and everytime i wanted to add a detail or feature the entire app would crash and be lost, then i would go crazy and start over. I was so hopeful for this but i think its not quite ready.
@kirsten_karchmer1Â An this, I have had this issue several time. Just asking to revert back to lost code sometime helped. I always had working backup using zip downloads so that helped. It just build things way faster than cursor/others would do hence I am still at it 4 days in a row and a full featured MVP is out form me - thehiitpit.com
I haven't tried v0.dev yet, but you made me look into it, thanks!
As a software engineer, I fully embrace cursor.com though, especially as it is also platform agnostic and I can build native iOS and Mac apps for example (I have recently built MotoFlow, launching on Friday). Furthermore, having a proper IDE at hand has been important when a project matures (even just a bit) to iron out issues and stay efficient with the work. Sometimes any challenge the agents are facing can be solved much quicker manually or the in depth engineering expertise helps to guide it in the right way with more precise instructions.
Also establishing a good feedback loop is as important for the agent as it is for human developers: Feeding exceptions, build errors, failing test assertions or even "user feedback" back into it is a very helpful approach.
Exciting times! 🚀
Tried v0 out of curiosity as coding is not my domain & also experiments with deployment always failed. I found v0 good in this aspect but the ai executes a lot of unwanted/unasked stuff also ( some happy discoveries and some flaws so need to roll back a lot ) Building something thats MVP level and making decent progress. But with the new pricing change - this might be affected. Imagine 100+ updates to get to a decent level even with clear requirements!! We'd be paying for the mistakes made by v0..any thoughts on how to mitigate this.
I think v0 by Vercel is a great starting point. Build of the core look and styling in v0 but then shift over to cursor for easy changes. I have built out our companies entire landing pag and dashboard on Vercel, Big fan!