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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Hi there! I use v0.dev, Cursor and Firebase studio and Codex. It’s great for exploration and prototypes but I wouldn’t ship as-is to production. There’s too many things these tools don’t do well — yet. Error prone, security, redundancy, etc
Unexpected wins - contradictory to the above statement - it’s amazing HOW well it does things at times. Particularly frontend and simple backend.
It’s then pretty easy to see what lands from a product perspective before investing time and/or $$.