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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For me, my first successful launch was with Krona App, an all-in-one workspace that lets you manage work better. I initially built it for remote workers who can't organize their work and schedule.
Love this thread — mine's a pretty different starting point than most answers here probably.
– It was an early version of Assetli — back then just a basic net worth tracker, way before the AI/MCP integration or half the current features.
– Used Claude (via Claude Code) — never really touched Lovable/Bolt/Replit, went straight into an actual codebase from day one.
– Hardest part honestly wasn't the code — it was that I came from CNC machining, so I had zero background in software architecture, deployment, databases, any of it. Vibe coding got me working code fast, but understanding why it worked, what to do when something broke that Claude couldn't just fix by iterating, that took way longer than the actual building.
– Yes — it eventually became what I'm launching on PH this week, so full circle. Wouldn't call it "money from that first version" though, that one barely resembled what exists now.
Curious how many other people here started completely outside software like I did vs. devs who just found a faster way to ship side projects.
fully vibe coded was
https://www.americanfamilyfans.com/
I think almost no code touching. I've been vibe coding parts of projects for a while, but this site was just an afternoon with claude :)
mine was a scraper i didnt actually need. wanted price history for one part across four supplier sites, asked for it around 1am, had something running by 2. it worked for nine days. then one site renamed a css class and it started returning empty arrays with no error at all, just zeros landing in the sheet. i didnt catch it for three days becuase the sheet still looked full. the only habit i kept from that is anything i vibe code that fetches now has to log what it got and when, so a quiet zero looks different from a real one. curious whether people here remember the thing working or the thing breaking.
Mine was https://anxiety-journal.com/ — and I built it back in early 2024, when vibe-coding tools weren't popular yet, and there wasn't even Cursor (at least not so popular). ChatGPT also had no integration with Xcode at the time, so I was essentially copying the code from GPT and pasting it into Xcode by hand. A lot has changed in the tooling since the release, of course, but it was already a really interesting experience back then
I just released my first, a word game app 'Hangman: Shadow Valley' on the App store for IOS today 9/10th sept. As a video editor I started learning Swift app coding in 2025 after watching Chris Ching's youtube tutorial. Building my first AI prompted app a week later on Windsurf (now Devin) i was amazed to find i'd created a working digital version of the traditional Hangman game literally in an evening. I was flabbergasted. I tried to create an alternative using Cursor but it just didn't feel as compelling as the original Windsurf version. By trial & error i used the Windsurf editor Cascade as well as Chat GPT, Deepseek & Gemini to create code snippets & also altering code directly in Xcode. Altering & testing & tweaking code was & still is a hazardous learning experience but somehow worth all the trouble. Scaling the GFX & UI for different size phones seemed particularly arduous. There are definitely tradeoffs & pitfalls when trying to finesse any aspects of the visuals, sound, user experience etc..without a full grasp of the coding. That is still a work in progress...
But seeing the existing apps & coming from a visual/audio background I felt I could create a more modern, sleek feel, one that i would find stimulating & peaceful. After adding some monochrome AI generated backgrounds & ambient/natural sound effects & months of testing & adding a couple of extra languages i thought, 'if i enjoy it... why not release it'. So I am putting it out there to see what happens!! Whatever happens it's been a great journey & learning curve...feedback welcome!
Very first project was a python script using Gemini that listens to microwave popcorn and says when it's done. Recently redid it to see how fast Codex could make it an app (and trying to be better about finishing things, even silly ones).
Most difficult was eating all that popcorn during testing (jk I recorded one bag and used that audio). Reliably/repeatedly predicting when it was actually done was the most challenging part.
No money, just for fun! Focused on other (more serious, I guess?) projects lol
github.com/andelser/kernel-panic