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 built an LLM-powered surveying app, for a couple reasons:
They're expensive for reasons I've never understood
A static survey tool isn't the best way to get contextual answers to a research question
It turned out to be the perfect first vibe code app for the same reason video gen is so good at creating cat videos. There are petabytes of examples online.
@busmark_w_nika mine was SAAL, saalletters.com. you write a letter to your future self and it gets mailed back to you in 1, 2, or 3 years as an actual physical handwritten letter.
i am not a developer at all. like have minimal coding knowledge outside of SQL. i used cto.new to get the first version running, then Claude Code to build out the real thing with a proper backend, payments, Stripe, email delivery, API integrations for the physical letters, the whole thing.
the most difficult part was honestly not the code. it was learning enough to know when the AI was doing something wrong. you can vibe code yourself into a corner real fast if you're just accepting every suggestion without understanding what it's doing.
did i earn money? stripe is live and not in sandbox but not yet... 🙂 still pre-launch but people have found it.
the wildest part is i now genuinely understand how the codebase works. i couldn't have told you what a webhook was 3 months ago.
The first project was a projection-mapping of giant eyes for an art installation.
https://vibes.doublejosh.com/
Eventually, I vibe-coded a presentation on vibe-coding and told it to go off the rails.
https://eyes.doublejosh.com/
First thing I vibe-coded was ClipScript - a tool that takes YouTube transcripts and actually does something useful with them. Repurpose a video into a blog post, Twitter thread, email, whatever. Started as a quick experiment and ended up being the most useful thing I've built. Check it out if you're sitting on a pile of transcripts going nowhere: producthunt.com/p/clipscript-3
BobCA
The problem is that current tools weren't made for non technical users....Why? Because the people that built them are VERY technical. Software experts...Why would you expect technical developers to know the hardships of non technical people?
They always talk about how "Easy" their products are, or how "simple..." But in reality what may seem like baby food to them is actually Overcooked steak for average non engineers. It is possible for vibe coding to be for non-technical. It just needs to be something that doesn't have the fancy jargon, but instead words that 5 year olds can understand with technical resolution workflows that even grandma's and grandpa's can use.
I'm non-technical, but built this out for my wife and I to build SaaS products quickly...maybe might launch it one day haha.
P.s. It didn't take 19m tokens for this one app...I've made maybe 12 total apps and that's the toa from all of my projects.