What was the very first project you vibecoded with AI?
On Product Hunt, I can see many people launching their products using "vibe-coding tools" like @Lovable , @bolt.new , or@Replit
I reckon many people who created something with them are usually developers who didn't have enough time for building a side idea before, but with AI, they could make it happen.
I am not very technical (know some coding/programming basics), but without the help of a tutorial or ChatGPT, I would hardly build a whole project.
Question not only for developers (but also tech newbies):
What was THE FIRST THING YOU VIBECODED?
Feel free to share the link or the picture
What tool did you use?
What was the most difficult part?
Did you earn any money with that?
Here is mine:
– It was supposed to be a directory of Bluesky tools– The most difficult parts were to define something + It also rewrote good parts of the code, so it was kind of a mess for me.
– I haven't earned any money because I haven't published the project. (I abandoned it. :D)
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UXDesigner.top
After a few experiments and personal mini-projects, the first real thing I vibecoded was LovablePrompts.app, a tool that turns rough product ideas into optimized prompts you can build with right away in Lovable. It even suggests new features to improve your concept.
I built it in just a few days using Lovable itself, Cursor and Open AI for prompt generation. No traditional code, just vibes and fast iteration.
The hardest part? Probably keeping things simple, I had to resist the temptation to add too much too soon. But it paid off: the feedback has been amazing, and I’ve actually already made money with it — a company reached out to sponsor the tool. Not bad for a weekend project! 😉
@david_martin_suarez I built a similar thing using Base44 I called ProductGuru. It walks you through a series of questions to help clarify your product idea, and then generates a robust prompt to copy/paste into an app builder. https://app--product-guru-32be2fa0.base44.app
UXDesigner.top
@thomascdaly Just checked it out — looks great! 🔥 Have you tried using the generated prompts across different platforms like Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor? Curious to know if they work equally well everywhere.
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@david_martin_suarez I was messing up with the basic site for almost 2 months, and the guy had a weekend project. 😂 But cool, I appreciate that. I suppose you have a tech background :)
UXDesigner.top
@busmark_w_nika Haha I get that! To be fair, I’m not a developer either, but I’ve built quite a few digital products before, so I’ve picked up some tricks along the way :)
QuickAgent
I built @QuickAgent on Lovable and am very impressed by Lovable in doing so! It’s my first time using it and truthfully my mind was blown. I am also entirely self-taught as a developer and actually built my $1M ARR app on Bubble - so I don’t have an extensive technical background but I’ve learned over time.
I think it will be nearly impossible to stay longterm building solely on Lovable unfortunately - at least in its current state.
The more time I spent on Lovable, the more breaking changes AI made and sudden massive design changes that I didn’t consent to.
If you want to build longterm, you need a reliable source of truth to build upon without massive changes to the code occurring with every small update. Of course they thought of this, and that’s why they sync to GitHub (which is fantastic).
Building longterm on lovable without knowing how to dive into the code yourself and put things together could become a nightmare. I also knew the right kinds of questions to ask to get it to work exactly as I wanted given my experience building apps.
All that being said - I will absolutely be staying as a paying user on Lovable. It’s incredibly valuable as an AI assistant and spins out MVPs ultra fast. It also does more things right than it does wrong :)
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@jacobseeger Did you build it during the past weekend when they had a promo? (They had tokens for free for the whole weekend to build things) :-)
QuickAgent
@busmark_w_nika yes I did!! And I entered into the Hackathon with it :)
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@jacobseeger I think I didn't catch that, but who won it? :D
@jacobseeger Would you mind sharing how you build the video on the homepage? Love the look of that!
QuickAgent
@vxlabs Of course! I made it with @Screen Studio :)
Hi there 👋
I vibecoded this small SaaS https://prompt-manager.com
It's a tool to store your prompts and add tags to them so you can easily find and reuse them.
I used WindSurf to vibecode it.
The most difficult part was fixing a bug related to communicating with the Stripe API.
For now, I earn the huge amount of $0 😁
Thanks for reading :)
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@gduale And do you have any strategy to market it? :)
@busmark_w_nika yes, I posted here ;)
Not really in fact...
I'm not very good at marketing, more skills in computer in general :)
I also posted it on Hacker News and X (twitter)
Thank you for your interest!
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@gduale Who is actually your ideal customer?
@busmark_w_nika Anyone, as long as they find the service useful for them.
Cal ID
I'd say +1 to @busmark_w_nika as I've been wondering the same for quite a while now. Vibe coding is as exciting as it sounds, but the feeling of being stuck on a technicality hinders the creativity and the very purpose of building with a vibe-coding rush! Can't wait to read more on this thread.
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@sanskarix If you have any vibe-coded project – feel free to share.
I use Claude agent for generating code and able to launch things much faster than it used to be. Recently launched two new projects.
ZenTutor.pro Initially created for my friend who is a tutor and was able to manage the tutoring effectively online manually so wanted an app where students can enroll for different lessons and can track the payments and allow paid students attend the calls, also ability to sell video only courses. He liked the product so much and gave an idea to make it a product hence launched here. The second product I have launched was
ThumbGenieAI.com This came out of my own use case as I write blog posts time to time used to spend more time to create suitable featured posts and wanted to comeup with one click solution to generate feature images for my blog posts. Thumb Genie generate images using the blog title and content as input, so the generated image is very unique and more suitable to the blog post.
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@msnisha ThumbGenie looks interesting to me (as for a content creator) – do you have any users, or is it just for personal use?
@busmark_w_nika Started months ago, got less than 10 users for now. Expected to grow over time.
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@msnisha Wish you luck with scaling :)
Built this directory for my SaaS localpanda.ai in literally a day - https://localpanda.ai/local-seo-tools/
I used Claude entirely to do this
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@dhruv_bhatia Did you put those tools on your own there, or reached out to the makers? :)
@busmark_w_nika oops just saw this question. I put them on my own...
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@dhruv_bhatia It is okay, no worries :D at least I know you are not a bot :D
@busmark_w_nika hahaha def am not :)
My first ever was a VTU application which I later took down the site for some reason I can't discuss, my official product which was my first lunch on Product hunt vibe coded using vercel's V0 was Vistatrack . And next was lots of other tools that I personally used but now I've complied them all in one tool platform that I just lunched today (also vibe coded) ToolRackly . I used to think the difficult part was the bug-crushing and development but I was wrong, marketing to get your first paying user is still currently the most difficult part.
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@affectionate_code Have you monetised them?
@busmark_w_nika Yes, I’ve monetized them in different ways.
VistaTrack uses a subscription-based model, while ToolRackly runs on a point-based system — users can access premium tools using points. Still working on growing the user base, though. Marketing on a $0 budget has been the real grind!.
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@eliza_pogorilska I understand it like writing the code by prompting :D it is my definition tho :D
I built my apps with @Lovable and@Vercel at the start, then when I saw the price was a costly monthly subscription as a freelancer, I decided to move to a Desktop app@Dyad All I had to do was get my API from Google Studio or Gemini and add it to the Dyad app, it's prefect, I would recommended it. I did many apps on @Dyad , this one of the recent apps SocialGet
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@jalalnasser what does your project do?
Hi Everyone, I submitted it :) and added a leaderboard with some feature enhancements and optimization.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/type-invaders
Thank you for looking!
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@ajbatac It is also good for practicing All 10 fingers method :D