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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CellFit www.cellfit.com.au just went live on both Apple App Store and Google Play Store and after years of addiction, homelessness I went back to school, learned, coded, built, designed a Supabase database, used third party oauth, intentionally kept things simple so as not to over complicate my one person team and the feeling of reaching this level is absolutely incredible.
Tear to the eye stuff.
I must add, for an industry where a person, literally an ex heroin addicted homeless person can take a laptop and internet connection then, not only be able to, but to be encouraged to, release a product though companies such as Google and Apple is absolutely amazing... brilliant.
Imagine if all industries were the same?
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@michael_kalaf How do you plan market it among other fitness apps? BTW, strong story! Thank you for sharing it!
@busmark_w_nika Honestly? I was all about getting it up and published, being my fist time I did not want to go about selling a product I did not even technically know I had.
I am also a full time student doing a Bachelor in I.T. so, lol, the genuinely correct answer to your question is slowly. I need to make display videos for example, I need to "rep it" and do some old fashioned cold calling and obviously, I need to use social media also.
I believe that my App is unique in its simplicity, it has a nice, very simply, yet very effective share feature(for professional subscribers)where a professional user, has a very simple client creation, where they can then invite and share their workouts.
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@michael_kalaf I am always a huge fan of apps that can improve quality of life + health :) Looking forward to your trajectory :)
@busmark_w_nika Thank you. More slow and steady than meteoric:)
SmartCue
Gramms - personalized bedtime stories for kids - vibecoded it over a weekend! - Gramms.ai
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@robin_singhvi Have you already launched here on PH?
SmartCue
@busmark_w_nika scheduled for March 14!
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@robin_singhvi Then feel free to ping me.
mine was speakeasy — an ios app that converts article urls into audio so u can listen while commuting or doing dishes
stack: expo + react native for mobile, fastapi backend, inworld tts (with openai as fallback), icloud for storage
hardest part was honestly the audio chunking. inworld has a 2000 char limit so i had to split at sentence boundaries and stitch the chunks together cleanly. lots of edge cases
earned money? yeah its live on the app store with a subscription, getting traction now. shipping with ai is just... different. i wouldve taken 6x longer without it
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@sup_nim For now, how many people subscribed to the paid subscription? (and when did you submit them to the stores?
I have no technical knowledge and for the last few weeks I have been working on a mini project in my spare time juggling work and family. I built a tool that allows you to compare salaries across different cities and neighborhoods helping you understand how far your salary will go around the world, factoring in cost of living, taxes, even family status. Take a look here - https://salary-converter.com/
Built mostly with Claude Code and a bit of Grok and Perplexity (mostly for side research and when I run out of tokens). Still working on this but would love feedback. There's also a free embeddable widget people can use to add the widget on their websites here: https://salary-converter.com/widget
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@jay7gr I would need something similar for comparing salaries so I could set for myself better price on interviews :D
Huddle01 Cloud
The first project I built was TweeReader. I didn't know I was vibecoding at the time
I just wanted to ship something before the hackathon, so I took help from ChatGPT, and ended up becoming the second runner-up
In my experience, vibe coding makes things quicker for me, but if I understand the codebase, it makes the feedback loop shorter.
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@otodidakt_20 and have you earned something with that tool?
Tomosu
My first vibe-coded project was actually an early prototype of Tomosu — an iOS app that locks all apps by default for digital wellbeing. Used Cursor + Claude heavily for the SwiftUI parts I wasn't confident in. The hardest part: making "nothing happening" feel intentional rather than broken. AI was great at writing the code, but teaching it the UX philosophy took a lot of back-and-forth 😄 Just launched today on PH!
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@nakajima_ryoma I supported it :)
Molt Beach
@busmark_w_nika My first vibe-coded project was a todo webapp — classic entry point 😄
But the one I'm most proud of came later: Claudine, a kanban board for Claude Code. Built it because I kept losing track of which agent conversations needed my attention vs. which were still running.
Tool used: Claude Code itself (meta, I know)
Most difficult part: Auto-detecting conversation status from raw JSONL files — inferring "is this waiting for me?" is surprisingly tricky
Earned money? Not directly — it's free & open source, but it's saved me tons of time managing parallel sessions
If you're deep into Claude Code and want to keep your vibe without losing the thread: claudine.pro
Curious — did anyone else end up building tools for their AI workflow after their first project? Feels like a whole category emerging 👀
#thanks-for-upvotes!
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@babalunda I like naming to be honest! :D
This resonates so much! I’m in a similar boat, I spent my career in HR and Operations advising executives, not in a code editor. I’ve always known how organizations should run, but I lacked the "hands" to build the infrastructure to fix it.
As someone managing ADHD, I was drowning in 'app fatigue', constantly switching between five different tools for journaling, habit tracking, and task management. Nothing talked to each other. I built the first iteration (originally called DoersSecretAI) using CO.dev over a few intense nights. It was raw, and I must have reverted the build 15+ times trying to get the logic right, but I ended up with a 'planner-meets-wellness' hybrid that I actually used every single day for nine months.
I never intended to sell that early prototype. It was my personal lab. But after using it consistently until mid-December, I realized that the 'operating system' I built for my own focus was exactly what was missing in the executive world. That personal 'itch' is what evolved into the professional-grade suite I’m beta testing now.
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@chris_payne_emba you mentioned 4,000 builders on the web. How did you get them?
@busmark_w_nika I'm a bit confused on your response, where did I mention 4,000 builders?
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@chris_payne_emba Sorry, mistyped. Here is mentioned 40k:
Or how was it meant?
Copus
The first thing I vibecoded was a Chrome extension for Copus, our content curation platform. I had the core web app built traditionally, but needed a browser extension that lets people save articles, videos, and links from anywhere on the web with one click.
Tool: Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI). Honestly it was a game-changer for extension development specifically because you can just describe the Chrome APIs you want to use and it handles all the manifest.json, content scripts, background workers complexity.
Hardest part: Getting the extension to work nicely across different websites. Every site has different DOM structures, so the "save this page" feature needed to handle edge cases everywhere. AI was great for iterating fast on those edge cases.
Did it earn money? Not directly from the extension itself, but it is the main acquisition channel for Copus — people discover articles through the extension and join the platform. So yes, indirectly.
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@handuo Who is the audience (market) for your tool? How do you get them?
Kiara Translation
map with mapbox - it was soooo beautiful
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@ishiid Where is the link? :D