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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 , , or

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 by

– 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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Honestly the one I'm proudest of is also the most ironic 😅

I vibecoded a tool called Windorion in a few days with AI — it scans

Hacker News (Reddit next) for people already asking for a product like

yours, scores the buying intent, and drafts a reply.

The irony: I built it because of the exact wall every vibecoder here

knows — AI turned building into a weekend thing, but then I had no clue

how to find the first users. So I built the tool I wished existed for

that step.

Still super early and figuring out distribution myself (cobbler's kids

have no shoes, lol). What was yours — and did you hit the same "ok it's

built… now what?" moment?

 I agree with your philosophy. I'd like to try this tool out! Sounds like something me and my buddies would need.

I had the best experiences with just using claude inside Cursor.

The full generators provide so much bloat. I guess its all about knowing exactly what you need.

 Me: I am using Claude in VS Code. What is the difference here?

 Cursor has like their own llm and agent highly optimized for the IDE. I don't really know about VScode, been a long time :)

Why did you abandon it instead of pivot or something? :)

Mine was actually similar,


I didn't abandon, but I moved on to other things. Plan to give it another shot soon though.

 okay, I abandoned it because it wasn't a thing anymore – I mean: it started being less popular on the platform :D

BTW, interesting concept – is it a directory too? What will be the monetisation model?

Back in March, a former colleague asked me out of the blue:

"Andy, what are all these OpenClaw-like apps everyone is talking about?"

At the time, I was fully focused on my language learning app and hadn't paid any attention to OpenClaw. I told her, "Honestly, I'm not really sure either. I guess it's an AI that can operate your computer once you give it permission."

And that was the end of it.

In AI, new concepts appear so quickly that there's a popular joke:

If you learn AI slowly enough, eventually you won't have to learn it at all.

Today, AI is everywhere—in our work, our studies, and our daily lives.

At the same time, I kept seeing posts on X where people celebrated finally understanding what MCP, Transformer, or Agent actually meant.

Ignoring AI altogether doesn't really feel like an option anymore. Burying our heads in the sand like an ostrich isn't exactly human nature—especially if we're naturally curious.

So I started wondering:

What if there were a way to understand every important new AI concept with almost no effort?

Not by reading research papers.

Not by watching two-hour YouTube videos.

Just enough to answer three simple questions:

  • What is it?

  • Why does it matter?

  • Where would I actually see it being used?

I don't need to understand the mathematics or the academic papers behind it (to be honest, I probably wouldn't understand them anyway). I just want to keep up with the AI world without it feeling like homework.

So in May, despite having zero programming background, I started building.

Using Claude Code and a lot of vibe coding, I spent 38 days designing, building, deploying, and launching the core features of AI Rookies.

For me, that feels like a huge personal achievement. It was something I'd never attempted before—and somehow, I pulled it off.

Today, AI Rookies lets you:

  • Today — Receive a daily roundup of the newest AI concepts that emerged yesterday, explained in plain English.

  • Explore — Search for any AI concept you're curious about and get an explanation that actually makes sense.

  • AI World — If you're curious enough, explore the bigger story: why AI suddenly became so capable, and how all these concepts connect to one another.

AI Rookies is a place where AI finally makes sense.

It explains AI concepts with humor, plain language, and connections between ideas instead of isolated definitions. Every concept becomes part of a growing knowledge map, so even complete beginners can naturally keep exploring.

It's still a work in progress, and there are plenty of features I want to build. But for me, it's already become the software for one that I wished had existed.

If you're curious about AI but don't want to spend your weekends reading research papers, I'd love for you to give AI Rookies a try.

And if you have ideas or feedback, I'd love to hear them. Every conversation helps make AI Rookies a little better.

 Wow, that's pretty extensive. Will you launch it here too?

 of course, Nika. I've launched it here already. Here is the page screenshot:

 Do you have a link too? :D

 I found it and supported :)

I vibe-coded an Apify Actor:

This is quite easy to do as Apify has a ready to use claude skill for Actor development:

So far it has generated $0.32

 How long has the project been live?

 2 months

 It just needs more marketing/distribution! :)

Mine was actually ArchiKist! 😄 I'm not really a developer, so AI made a significant difference for me. I initially started with the idea of building a few useful calculators for architects and DIY enthusiasts, and it unexpectedly turned into a whole toolbox. There’s no subscription, no sign-up. Everything is free, and the purpose is to enhance learning and improve everyday tasks.

I utilized several AI tools along the way, rather than sticking with just one. The funny part is that getting something to work was often the easy part! 😂 The more challenging aspects were figuring out what to build, verifying whether the calculations were accurate, fixing the odd errors that AI introduced, and ensuring the user experience felt like a real product rather than something that was simply "AI-generated."

I launched ArchiKist on Product Hunt about 16 days ago, so I’m still very much in the “building, learning, and fixing things” phase.

I’d love to hear from other Product Hunt makers as well, what surprised you the most about the first thing you built with AI?


  • This is my first web app that i used vibe-coding.

  • And i used antigravity and Claude.

  • The most difficult is I could not like satisfy with my site UI, some tools bug took more time to fixing it and SEO, and I'm not getting traffic.

  • No i have not earned a single cent yet.

A waitlist feature with I had used lovable to make a landing page before but solar let me throw in some enhancements and gamification quickly. I wish I had something else to build just to have another example for you.

We built our entire website in for , would love any feedback.

Maintenance and updates without burning through credits became tricky. Have started using more and love the new release of !

 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.

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