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Nika

What was the very first project you vibecoded with AI?

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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

– I used v0.dev by @Vercel

– 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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Jaishanker K

Hi, I work at neobuild.dev , I was assigned to create a guide document to help new users understand how to use Neobuild for building and publishing. I prepared this using the Neobuild knowledge base

and published it here: Getting Started Guide.

Nika

@jaishanker_k It would be great if it remembered my prompt after signing up. :) Interesting idea.

William Wnekowicz

Had been testing vibe coding tools for a few years since the launch of Devin. But, the first project I managed to fully vibe code and launch into production without writing a single line of code was https://nannabanana.ai (w/ Claude Code Opus)



The second one I just launched last week is runCLAUDErun (https://runclauderun.com), a scheduler for Claude Code. Also built without writing code using Opus 4.1 + Sonnet 4.5.


I'm an experienced product engineer, so my prompts are going to be better than non-technical vibe coders, but we've hit that point where it's actually possible to write and release software without coding. And it'll only get better from here.

Nika

@williamwnekowicz I love word playing with nanna banana :D have you been somehow inspired by Gemini Nano Banana AI? :D

William Wnekowicz

@busmark_w_nika of course! It uses Nano Banana to generate the images. Thought they missed an opportunity in the naming.

Sayantan Chatterjee

Well, I am building Parrot - An AI Transcription and Translation desktop app built for India. Think WhisperFlow but with native support (and better accuracy) for Indian users. You can hold (or toggle) a hotekey and write into any app, with any languages (english + code-mix + Indian native languages)

I mostly coded through @opencode and for IDE i mostly used @Cursor . Mostly models like @Gemini and @Claude by Anthropic were used but I also experimented with @OpenAI Codex.

Here's a few SS -



Nika

@29sayantan I think that a short intro video would help to explain the tool :)

Sayantan Chatterjee

@busmark_w_nika Yes! I actually have a video here (By the way we are launching today!)- https://www.producthunt.com/products/parrot-8?launch=parrot-63bb17c2-cfad-43db-b610-7c679ec515a8

Nika

@29sayantan Cool, gonna support :)

My first vibe coding project was a video editor called Vexo - Video Editor, because I wanted to build something I'd actually use myself. As a solo Flutter developer, I built it in about a week and managed to get it published on Google Play. The whole process — from idea to live on the store — was honestly faster than I expected. Now I'm working on bringing it to iOS too. Still a long road ahead, but super excited about where this is going! 🚀

Nika

@liulei That's cool! I edit myself and tried many desktop tools, but not so many for smartphones. How many users do you have?

@busmark_w_nika It's only been out for a week, and it already has over 500 downloads. Since I'm an Android developer, I'm currently researching iOS and plan to release it on the App Store later.

Nika

@liulei It seems like it has a bit of potential. Keep improving it and expand :)

Raf Vantongerloo

I vibecoded Trimless For Gmail V3 using @Replit (the landing page using @bolt.new ) at https://trimlessforgmail.com

And instead of searching and trying to validate SaaS ideas the old way, I used https://chromegoldmine.com for a huge list of expired, profitable browser extensions. Working on number 2 right now! :)

Nika

@rafvantongerloo That's cool! When did you push these two into the production? :)

Alexander Biglane

It was a prank website where users can upload a photo and it generates a fake news article complete with a video about that person crashing out and throwing a huge baby tantrum.. ha. It was just for fun to see what was possible and it sort of opened my eyes to what I could do.

Nika

@alexanderbiglane Prank? :D I already love it :D

Alexander Biglane

@busmark_w_nika haha thank you, tantrumify.com. its silly but I had fun with it.

Nika

@alexanderbiglane You should incorporate something there about Diddy (that's a kinda MEME) :D

Eric

I just built this, and I am not a developer. dutybird.io and used Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemeni for guidance and system prompts. I've built a few ideas, but it really is amazing what you can create with imagination and the right thought process. This was made on lovable. I have a background in enterprise tech sales, so it's fun to create on my own.

Nika

@goatmosapp Out of curiosity – why did you choose the name dutybird?

Eric

@busmark_w_nika I liked the wording behind "duty" the language importers use, and "bird" because I wanted it to feell ike an early warning signal. thought the combo felt memorable.

Isaias Solaeche

I’m definitely not a professional programmer! I started this with zero initial knowledge, just a lot of self-taught training and curiosity along the way. It’s been an interesting journey discovering this world.

I recently launched CVitae, a tool I built using HTML/JS, Netlify Functions (Node.js), and the Anthropic Claude API to handle the heavy lifting of the AI. For the backend, I’m using JSONBin to manage the data. It’s been incredibly fun to watch a hobby turn into a functional product that’s already generating semi-passive income; we’ve already secured our first sales!

However, as a novice, I know there is much room for improvement. I’m planning a second launch for next month and would love to get some feedback or recommendations from this community. If you have any tips on how to scale this specific stack or improve the integration with Claude for a v2, they would be more than welcome!

Nika

@cvitaepy This motivates me to build. But did you understand coding and was coding before? Or is it vibecoded?

Isaias Solaeche

@busmark_w_nika 0 coding undestanding, it s full vibecoded, but trying to learn in the process, because it helps a lot at the time to debug..

Nika

@cvitaepy But how is the product doing? Because I think that every time you prompt something, the code is rewritten to a great extent and may not be working properly anyway.

Isaias Solaeche

@busmark_w_nika To be honest, I'm still surprised by how well the product is doing! I’ve already managed to secure my first sales, and the best part is that it’s working almost semi-automatically now, generating some passive income while I keep learning.

Since I started this with zero coding knowledge, I’m always afraid of breaking things, so I’ve learned to be very careful. I try to make only tiny, surgical changes instead of letting the AI rewrite everything at once. Whenever I get stuck or one model doesn’t 'get' me, I just switch to another one like DeepSeek or Claude for a second opinion. It’s been a huge challenge, but debugging those little mistakes is actually how I’m finally starting to understand how it all fits together. Just migrated to Supabase for our v2 next month, and I’m just taking it one step at a time!

Abe Qarm
Human-like Chatbot to help setting up appointments for used car dealers.
Nika

@abdessamad_qarmada do you have the website live?

Abe Qarm

@busmark_w_nika It’s a dead product now — learned a lot from it though. We ended up building something different: SmartDial, a powerful dialer that works directly with Zoom Phone, built for outbound sales teams that live on the phone all day. Just launched the beta!

Nika

SmartDial  @abe_qarm Will you be launching on PH too? 👀

Abe Qarm

@busmark_w_nika haha it's already on PH look up SmartDial

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Nika

@aleksandra_trueme What are the rules of the game?

Aleksandra Los

@busmark_w_nika It's a satire.... goal is to bring peace between Putin, Trump and Zalenski by balancing their emotions.

Nika

@aleksandra_trueme aaaa :D now I get it :D

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