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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Mine was a plugin to keep your figma files always fresh with auto upgrade from Design System. It's a consume time for a Design System Manager to keep every projets updated, so i build a tool to do it.
As a designer, i'm in love with the possibilities vibe coding offer. Yesterday we were stuck with development things and now we can make everything we can ! So i ask, in the futur how will be the market for Saas if everyone can make the tool they need ? (not everyone can build but IA become more and more native so...)
Then, actually i'm using Claude Code and it's fire. More freedom to build, more correct for the build and more business value. The only limit is economic, tokens is the new oil.
brightmybrand.com This is it: launched today, after an intensive month of vibing. I've developed several WP websites, landing pages before, but not the code... This was built as a tool to help or agency copywriting/branding but it grew... Hope it works well, and may need finetunning. What do you think?
mine was a dumb little CLI that scraped my browser bookmarks and tagged them with an LLM. used Claude + a janky python script. hardest part was getting the rate limiting right without melting my API budget. never made money off it but it taught me more about prompt design than any tutorial.
I can't remember the first thing I vibecoded, but the latest thing is a tool that i created to visualize btc value in real terms. I learned so much from doing this project
PictaBase is the first project I've built using an adversarial AI development loop.
The Tools: I used an adversarial model setup. Opus 4.6 (Thinking) handled the primary code generation, while Gemini 3.1 Pro acted as a "Red Team" auditor to review every line of code for security flaws and logical regressions.
The Most Difficult Part: Moving from "vibing" to actual engineering rigor. AI is excellent at happy-path logic but requires manual discipline to enforce PHPStan Level 8 compliance and strict typing across 38,500 lines of PHP 8.4 code. The hardest lift was using AI to hunt for specific race conditions in atomic counters and eliminating cross-tenant enumeration oracles.
Earnings: I am launching today on Product Hunt with a Lifetime Deal. The project is designed to be sustainable by solving the "LTD killer"—uncontrolled egress—through CloudFront-backed delivery and project-scoped signed cookies.
We are live today. If you value data portability and pixel-blind architecture, I would love to have you stress-test the result.
@PictaBase
Mine is actually the app I'm working on now: VoiStory.
I'm a solo developer, and honestly AI/vibe coding is what made this possible for me. Without AI, I probably would have stayed at the idea stage for a long time.
The app is for parents: personalized bedtime stories, voice cloning, and gentle emotional support in a familiar voice.
The hardest part hasn't really been building it ---- AI helped a lot with that. The hardest part is everything after building:
how to explain it clearly, how to promote it, and how to figure out whether it's truly useful for real parents or just sounds like an interesting idea to me.
I'm still trying to get it in front of people, still learning how to market it, and still not fully sure whether I should keep pushing harder or rethink the direction.
The first thing that i ever vibecoded was creating a telegram bot that sends me daily updates and news about AI. I remember how happy i was when I first did it and it worked! For context, Im not a technical person at all and having vibecoding tools is such a game changer for me! I haven't earned any money since the goal was to try vibecoding tools and create something of my own by myself. For this task I used Extella.Ai
Vibe coded QuickAnswer in Google Ai Studio, in result try connect firebase, and start learning backend, in the end understood QuickAnswer idea market not profitable and discovered cursor.
Somebody there started vibe coding with Google Ai Studio?
SaveForm.io
Building out https://saveform.io/, i wanted to have an easy way to receive form submissions on for example my personal website which is pure html/js/scss. I didn't think at the beginning, but i rewrote the app 2-3 times and we now have 200 users up and running :)
Vibe coding is genuinely powerful, especially if you're technical and want to ship faster. But it gets dangerous the moment you stop supervising it.
Learned this the hard way. When vibe coding first came out I jumped in, over trusted it, and ended up breaking work that was already done. It doesn't just slow you down, it can set you back.
Vibe coding is great. The blind trust is the problem.