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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My first vibe-coded project is actually what I'm launching tomorrow — OSS Discovery (ossdiscovery.site), a directory of 1,284+ open source tools across 41 categories.
Used Antigravity + Claude + others heavily throughout. I'm a CS student who knows the fundamentals but wouldn't have shipped this solo in 2–3 weeks without AI assistance.
The hardest part wasn't the code — it was data. Scraped 7+ sources, deduplicated thousands of entries, cleaned messy metadata. No AI could do that part cleanly for me.
No money yet — it's free and launching tomorrow on Product Hunt Would love any support!
I vibe coded a lot but mostly for personal use web apps on my home server. In my experience, it is an advantage to vibe code if you have coding experience because you will be able to direct the Ai better and whatever terms and concepts the Ai throws at you, you will understand it easily. I do not use Ai wrappers, perhaps Ai wrappers are there for non-technical people. I use Ai directly to code. Using Ai wrappers diminishes your coding flexibility. I also do not use frameworks. Frameworks makes you less powerful and less flexible. Using Ai, I treat it as a speedup tool like giving me 10 sets of hands and brains. One piece of advice that saves you from bugs: NEVER ASK THE AI TO BUILD SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO SOLID UNDERSTANDING. If you ask it to build an accounting app but you do not understand accounting yourself that is a disaster waiting to happen.
I know this post is a bit old now but, I want to share my experience.
My first "vibecoded" project was a voice-activated expense tracker!
It uses audio recognition to listen to your voice and automatically logs/tracks your expenses.
It was mostly a fun experiment to see what's possible at the time, now I've completely changed how I think about building things!
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@tharegard Is is online somewhere too?
@busmark_w_nika Now, I'm actually working on a far more complex project: a RAW photo editor that runs right in the browser. If my first app was a brick, this one is a skyscraper! It's already online and working, and I'm preparing for the launch soon.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@tharegard Wow, are you into photography too! :)
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!
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@flyweel_turner What will Flyweel be capable of? Track your finances? I would say that this is a more mobile app solution.
My first "vibecoding" was actually upgrading my trading system.
I had a quantitative trading bot for A-shares (Chinese stock market) that I'd built the traditional way. I wanted to refactor it from procedural code to a state machine architecture — cleaner logic for handling market conditions.
But back then it was the ancient era of AI coding: copy code → paste into ChatGPT → copy the response → paste back into VS Code → run it → hit a bug → copy the error → paste it back into ChatGPT → repeat. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V was my most-used shortcut.
Then came Cursor, now Claude Code — and I grew up from a quant trader to an AI builder. I built two websites in one weekend, and now I'm learning SEO through vibecoding. Turns out "vibe-SEOing" is a thing too.
Visionnaire - an AI goal coaching app. You set a goal, and Arcus (my AI coach) builds you a real plan with strategy steps, a first action for today, and mini goals to track.
I used Claude as my main tool, with Node/Express on the backend, Supabase for the database and auth, and Groq to run the AI.
The hardest part was honestly not the code — it was figuring out how to get people to actually try something new. Distribution is brutal when you're starting from zero.
No money yet — it's free for now while I focus on getting real users and feedback. Just launched today on Product Hunt actually.
visionnaire.onrender.com if you want to try it.
My teenage son built a full SaaS on Bolt with Claude. A property zoning tool. Hardest part was the data layer, not the code. Every US city has different rules. Bolt crushed the scaffolding but domain expertise still mattered. Yes it makes money. Vibe coding eliminated the boilerplate, not the thinking.
Just vibe-coded a menu website! Made ordering a breeze with clean design. The AI handled most of the heavy lifting. Still tweaking, but loving the process!
I stumbled upon a website for ios development and started fooling around. I created a task list and a mood tracker using react native and expo to get a feeling (both for free on the app store), but then figured I should use swift for ios development.
I am using Claude a lot, it's easy to prototype and the results are always great. I have many ideas for small helpers and games but being a developer for decades I know that I won't finish anything in time using my own skills only. I just prepared the launch of my sudoku game, my fourth project as a vibe coding supported indie dev. It would not have been possible without AI support.