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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I'd like to try this !
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@eden33 Do you mean my directory of bluesky products? :D Rather not :D
Mailmodo
I created a quiz-led lead magnet with lovable. Essentially, it determines your email marketing personality type based on a series of questions, and then suggests the most suitable resource in the results. Used lovable and statisg for it. By the way, we've also launched something for Vibe coders and Vibe marketers. Call it lovable for email marketing? Chekc it out please?
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@sabahet_amjad1 Can you show us the example? Or the website?
OpenFolder
My first vibecoded project was OpenFolder — a macOS menu bar app that turns your desktop into a calm personal launchpad.
I built it using GitHub Copilot + VS Code, which felt like coding with a quiet partner who always had my back. 😄
The hardest part wasn’t the code, but building something truly minimal yet delightful to use. I released it commercially on the Mac App Store — not easy to profit from, but I’m learning a lot from the journey.
👉 https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/openfolder/id6753940577?l=en-GB&mt=12
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@fzero17 Cool, I can see you already monetise it. Do you have paying users?
OpenFolder
@busmark_w_nika Thanks! Yes, I’ve had one paying friend so far — no strangers yet. I guess that part just takes time. I’m focusing on making it genuinely useful first. 😊
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@fzero17 I am pretty curious on your ongoing results :)
OpenFolder
@busmark_w_nika Thank you! I’ll come back and share an update when things move forward — hopefully that day isn’t too far away :)
My first vibecoded project turned into an actual product — a productivity app called SelfOS.
Zero coding background — I'm a content team lead by day. Built the whole thing with Figma AI and Claude + Cursor. AI basically became my technical co-founder who writes all the code.
Stack: React + TypeScript + Capacitor (to ship to iOS/Android)
Hardest part: The "last 20%" polish. Things like swipe gestures feeling right, offline storage, App Store submission flow. AI gets you 80% incredibly fast, but finishing is still grinding.
Did I make money? Tiny numbers but real: ~50 downloads, 6 paying subscribers, $22 MRR after 2 weeks. Not life-changing, but proof that the thing works and people actually pay for something I built without knowing how to code.
The irony: I built it to organize my own chaotic life, and now I spend most of my time marketing it instead of using it 😅
What surprised me most: App Store organic search brought 51% of traffic. I expected to grind for every download, but ASO actually works.
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@virtualviki Isn't the app broken in the code when you reframe some prompt? It happened to me quite often that the app started being different, or one bug was fixed, but another emerged.
But kudos to milestones :)
@busmark_w_nika Oh yes, constantly! 😅
The "fix one thing, break another" loop was probably 40% of my time. Claude would solve a bug and quietly remove some feature I liked, or change the styling randomly.
What helped me:
1. Smaller prompts — instead of "fix this and also add that", one thing at a time
2. Always check the diff before accepting — painful but saved me many times
3. Git commits after every working state — so I could rollback when AI went crazy
Still not perfect. Sometimes I'd spend an hour just getting back to where I was before the "fix."
But honestly? Traditional developers probably have similar debugging loops, just without the AI lottery element 😂
How do you handle it? Any tricks that work for you?
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@virtualviki To be honest, I do not have these coding skills and do not make it massively, so for now, I do not have any suggestions (sorry to say that) :D
First thing I vibe coded (an app) and actually finished - omgIFTV. It's an app that indexes my Tiktok likes and bookmarks from my downloaded data file into a local, serachable database. It uses transcription, OCR (On screen text recognition), and a Visual Analysis model so I can search for things like "man with glasses" and it shows me the content of the images.
What tool did you use?
I used Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI (Gemini 3 Preview)
What was the most difficult part?
Oh, there were so many difficult parts. Opus 4.5 is a bit outdated since it was finished in 2024, so Gemini CLI and Codex helped pick up the slack. I also used Applescripts to give my agent the ability to test by itself - so it could click and take screenshots, and enter into a 'feedback loop' so I could just watch it fix the errors by itself. But after a lot of yelling into my voice memos app and have it to the typing for me, it works!
Did you earn any money with that?
So far, 3 sales, so $8.97. I'm working on promoting it, and think I'll add some features once I have some more users.
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@chezluc BTW, does your tool know to find trendy videos for any industry?
@busmark_w_nika It's more an after-the-fact retrieval tool.
You can find something you saw (if you index your entire watch history) or saved/bookmarked later in OMGiftv after indexing your local data file. I find myself browsing even faster now - for example any recipe that I remotely like within the first second, I just like and move on - knowing that I can say "can you find all videos with cucumber receipes" and export the transcripts. (Which I would put in an LLM to extract what I need to buy at the supermarket later).
There's a free version if you want to try it out! If you have any feedback or other Q's, lmk!
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@chezluc Thank you for clarifying. At the moment, I need to complete the task to discover things that are trending so need a solution for that purpose :D
Mine was a small landing page and an attempt to build a part of an app in ui to sell plant leasing subscriptions. It was the first attempt to vibecode and I was struggling to make proper ui and fix errors. It was the very first days of lovable but it was fun. Of course I just built a partly functioned landing page s you see in photo attached. Just left it alone after a few attempts..
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@lucky_plant I think that idea is really genuine when it comes to nature and environment, but finding monetisation model is more difficult.
My first vibe-coded thing was a dead-simple Q&A bot using the Claude API—just a local script that answers questions from my notes.
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@zypressen Is it live anywhere?
@busmark_w_nika Haha, not live anywhere — it’s just a local script on my machine! Pure vibe coding: built for me, runs once, never touched again. :D
But these little experiments definitely help me build better vibe-coded projects down the line.
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@zypressen Gotcha! :)
Giving someone AI-assisted coding tools does not make them a software engineer,
just like giving someone accounting software doesn’t make them an accountant,
and access to legal templates doesn’t make them a notary. Good luck! ;-)
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@paul_van_der_meer Good parallel! :D
bozheville.com still building, all replit, it's actually been easy and given it's a thing I do on the side in my spare time, it has been progressing well. Not making money:) but only just launched:) feel free to check out and all feedback is welcome
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@tatiana_gramatikova_bonneau Will it be safe for people? (I mean, there is some kind of anonymity, right?) But what if they share photos after quite a good writing to each other and will be disappointed?
@busmark_w_nika so as is, all info shown publicly is a nickname, whatever the user choses to share about themselves in the intro and their interests - and those are used to show potential matches. The verification is on the backend, so for a profile to become active they submit a verification request and that's done manually - I contact the person and make sure they are real (I know, not scalable but not thinking that far yet).
The disappointment after sharing photos - I am pretty sure it will happen but then it's the inverse of what is usually happening - people fall for pictures (lots of them fake/edited/etc) and then get disappointed by the character or they don't even give the character a chance because of a picture...so not sure it's a bad thing, I mean really, if you find someone who you can chat with for hours and be yourself and you're having a great time and it turns out they are not looking like superman - how bad is that? Plus it's about connections, dating is an option but not a must.
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@tatiana_gramatikova_bonneau I am curious to see how things will play out. Anything that is related to human psychology and sociology is interesting, because it can help with marketing :)
@busmark_w_nika reading Bonded by Evolution, Paul Eastwick can check it out, related to dating but not only, a lot on psychology etc
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:)