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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Ovren
Mine was Get Post AI 📱
A simple iOS app I built to generate social media posts faster.
The hardest part wasn’t coding, it was making the UX clean and the results actually useful.
Live here if curious:
https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/get-post-ai/id6474195231?l=pl
Great question! My first vibe code attempt was actually Anthos Adaptive Learning — an AI-powered homeschool curriculum platform I'm building with my wife Nicole, a certified curriculum designer.
Tool used: Claude (via Claude Code) as my primary coding agent inside of VSCode for local editing. I am also using Claude Cowork to plan out the full stack and scope out the requirements before it creates the build.md for the project.
Most difficult part: Honestly, learning that vibe coding isn't "describe it once and walk away." The real skill is learning how to communicate architecture decisions clearly enough that the AI doesn't make expensive mistakes mid-build. Writing good specs and understanding how the backend infrastructure works turned out to be more important than writing code.
Did I earn money? Launching on Product Hunt on Monday, so ask me again next week!
What surprised me most is that 20 years of IT infrastructure experience actually transferred really well. I dabbled as a script kiddie in a lot of roles for many years before AI, putting together Powershell scripts, bash scripts, etc. I didn't know React before this. Now I have a production platform running on DigitalOcean with Stripe, PostgreSQL, and a full AI content pipeline. Vibe coding is real, but it rewards people who understand systems thinking, even if they can't write syntax from scratch. That systems knowledge, living in it every day knowing how other people's software breaks, is beneficial when you start coding and your software breaks. The only difference now: I control the code and can make changes faster than any company can.
The first thing i vibe coded was Contentify, my tool to create a Youtube video with AI
What tool did you use?
I used Claude Code, mainly using Sonnen model, sometimes i used Opus, when things were complex
What was the most difficult part?
I'm not sure about the other vibe coding tools out there, but with Claude Code is pretty easy. Maybe it's because i'm a developer myself and knew hot to guide it well, but I honestly can't think of getting stuck on some requirement.
If I have to name one thing (with the version i worked of Claude at that moment), i had to be the mediator between the backend agent and the frontend agent, there was no feature that allowed you to connect the agent together. I think Claude is working on having that or released something of the kind already, not sure.
Did you earn any money with that?
No, not yet. It's the idea, but I have to get people to use it
At first I was very skeptical, but working with Claude Code was ideal for me.
I sound like a seller from Anthropic, but no xD.
Just to prove it... it was a bit annoying to not be able to continue working because i ran out of credits, and buying extra credits is quite expensive.
@solal_aegis I successfully prototyped an Android app using Claude Code inside of Android Studio. I used to develop small apps back in the early days of Android when Google Play Store used to be Android Market and Honeycomb reigned supreme. Although the syntax is no longer the same anymore, I was surprised to find a lot of the same structure still existed for Android apps so it made it easier to plan, build, and troubleshoot, even if I didn't exactly know the code. Android Studio consumes a lot of tokens fast because I got the best results on Opus. It couldn't get anything right on Sonnet and I wasted a lot of time running in circles over a simple bug that if I spent 20 minutes, I could have figured out how to fix it.
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.