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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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
As a product owner, I use Lovable mainly for prototyping. It’s especially useful for turning ideas into quick demos that I can share with the team while explaining product concepts more clearly.
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@qiwap If you have any examples of outputs, feel free to share :)
@busmark_w_nika Hey there! I built these, and had a ton of fun,learning and upskilling while doing it. I started early on with Figma Make, moved to Google AI Studio, fell in love with Antigravity when it came along and now a total slave to @Claude by Anthropic .
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@shandar The middle one reminds me of this! :D
Springfield Oracle
I vibecoded @Springfield Oracle on @Claude Code & @Vercel . I think the most difficult part about this, was version control, just to add more context I'm a marketer by profession, and have 0 working knowledge about any of this until i actually began, so when I was halfway through it, things started breaking apart and I had no way to understand where the leaks where, it took me some time, some sessions with friends in tech to understand how these things work, and finally figure out a way to have more control over the code, even though it's vibecoded. I didn't earn anything out of it yet, but this did give me an idea for a bigger product with a more nuanced edge case. It was fun to build and see it develop into something people and the community genuinely talk about with interest.
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@isha_godboley what if AI "damages" your code by constantly rewriting? Don't you need the help of a professional coder/programmer then?
Springfield Oracle
@busmark_w_nika Absolutely, so far I didn't need that level of help (spray and pray would not work in the long term for sure), but I'm of the view that vibecoding is good for people like us, with 0 coding knowledge, or resource availabilty and drive to build something fast, I think this project helped me understand what to build next, find a PMF and stress test the idea. But when I actually build the next level of this, I'm not going to rely on this stack entirely, I may create a basic version to explain the idea to someone, or to visualize and plan how things will look like and work, but when I have to build a consumer focussed shippable version, I will almost certainly have to find a professional coder/tech resource to build it out with me.
I feel vibecoding is cool for low stakes, hobby projects, or to stress test an idea at a short time while you pool in resources and work on the plan for the bigger product, but when the stakes go high, and if you're planning on creating a data storage/get payments from the site, vibecoding can quickly become unreliable and expose a lot of cruicial security issues that might go very very wrong for high stake products.
We built our entire website in @V0.dev for Flyweel, would love any feedback.
Maintenance and updates without burning through credits became tricky. Have started using @Cursor more and love the new release of @Dyad!
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@flyweel_turner What will Flyweel be capable of? Track your finances? I would say that this is a more mobile app solution.
Piñata Birthday Reminder
Piñata - been up on iOS and Android for a few months. 🎉
I'm a product designer who'd never shipped an app solo before. Built it with Cursor and Claude Code. It's a freemium birthday reminder app, and I've sold a couple Pro subscriptions so far.
👉 https://getpinata.app/