I feel personally attacked

App icons & branding, onboarding / about screens, navigation refinement, animations & transitions, responsive design, form validation, network failure handling, edge cases, crash logging, unit & integration tests, memory / CPU usage checks, image / asset optimization, database / storage tuning, load testing, environment config, secrets management, build automation, continuous integration (ci), versioning & release notes, privacy policy / terms of service, app store requirements, accessibility, platform-specific guidelines, test on multiple devices / OS versions, localization / language support, user feedback loop, final bug fixes & tweaks, payment gateway integration, in-app purchases setup, subscription management, refund handling, billing notifications, pricing strategy, promotional offers, app marketing plan, store listing optimization, SEO/ keywords, app screenshots & videos, social media promotion, email campaigns, legal compliance, terms of use, GDPR/ CCPAA compliance, copyright & intellectual property, disclaimers

.. and deciding what the hell you want to call it.

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TheRealManlyWeevil@reddit

Ooo naming. My arch nemesis

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MoffKalast@reddit

Luckily now we can have an LLM generate a bunch of names and then decide we don't like any of them.

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OWAdmin@reddit

I genuinely laughed out loud on this, so true.

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philmarcracken@reddit

just like my video game characters!

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Aarav2208@reddit

90%:
Finish the app in a way which i am proud off
10%:
Make a post on reddit telling people about it.

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Jazzlike_Garbage9709@reddit

Make a post on reddit telling people about it.

The hardest part by far

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Aarav2208@reddit

So true, I just leave my projects at 80%

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-dysangel-@reddit

and then another 400% spamming reddit with bots

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En-tro-py@reddit

You're absolutely right! That's why I gave of on reddit and now read ijustslopcodedthis.com to get my AI posts from a true source of AI slop. With zero human eyes ever reading a word before it's posted, it's not just vibes -- it's real shit!

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ramzeez88@reddit

Build what you enjoy and share it with others. I am sharing my apps for free.

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robogame_dev@reddit

Here's a few recommendations to prevent projects from dead-ending on release:

- Research first. If you make something that already exists, be clear about how yours differs from the most popular alternatives. Nobody wants another agent memory solution unless it can clearly show that it's learned from the others, and isn't just reinventing the same wheel.

- Security first. Almost everything useful with AI touches important data. If you ask people to login, or create accounts, etc, you need to address up-front how you will protect their password, what will be encrypted at rest, etc. So many projects are essentially too risky to use because without doing a forensic audit, we don't know if it's gonna leak or expose our stuff.

- Isolated scope. Nobody wants to use a universal project that takes over every aspect of an entire problem-space, that only guarantees A) lockin and B) that the user has tools that overlap with data already there. Target specific things where someone can plug it into their existing workflows.

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VirtualPercentage737@reddit

I coded up something the other week with Claude... Charged $15.. sold 3. Fucking passive income baby.

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intergalactic_watch@reddit

delete this

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andber6@reddit

This hit a bit too deep 😆

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srimalireddi@reddit

Vibecoding for the sake of it is just token burn.

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No_Photograph5651@reddit

This meme really hits home.

We’ve been developing something for about a year.
We’ve put a lot of thought into it, and honestly, I think it’s pretty good.

But… there haven’t been any significant results, and we aren’t getting any attention.
"It feels like I’m making something nobody uses or looks at."

But at the same time, I’m not even sure if that’s actually true.

It’s not that nobody needs it,
but that nobody seems to understand it yet.

I wonder if anyone else has gone through a similar stage.

You know, that stage where the problem is clear to me,
but others don’t understand it yet.

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Consistent-Mastodon@reddit

I sometimes cook for myself. It doesn't mean I have to open a restaurant.

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smoked__rugs@reddit

but to them, u should never cook - everything's already been done... y do anything?

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StatisticianFun8008@reddit

Preach, my friend.

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nekodazulic@reddit

Yeah, and cooking still makes sense because I can cook exactly how I want it, which isn’t something that I can always get from a restaurant.

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RCBANG@reddit

lol feels like you found your people ;)

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no-punintended0802@reddit

Vibe coding seems fun

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AIGIS-Team@reddit

one day someone will vibe-code something useful lol.

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Outon0@reddit

Just this week, I've vibecoded for the first time a toolkit to draw directly on any webpage. I'll use it, pretty sure that's good enough, still funny though.

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Dimention_less@reddit

I use my apps🗿

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Big_Environment8967@reddit

I have got rid of so many subscriptions writing my own versions of them. Win!

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DrunkenCabalist@reddit

Exactly this.

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Training-Hair-8475@reddit

Same that is why i build them.

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SnowTim07@reddit

same.

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leonxt_2@reddit

all developers have same problem

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GinamosWCheryOnTop@reddit

Well i was attack until i remembered….. I USE my app

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donmathieu@reddit

😂 this is my daily live

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pulsar_dev@reddit

This is literally me this weekend vibecoding with Claude Code. My wife asked the exact same question while I was setting up websockets for my local LLMs.

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FullstackSensei@reddit

It's only offensive if you're vibe coding something that's not solving a problem you have.

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imnotzuckerberg@reddit

a problem

Define a problem. Also define a solution. I have been there, over engineering the fuck out of a solution for a not-really a problem, that could have been solved in 5 min. It's all about the journey.

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Few_Novel_2936@reddit

So truee

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FullstackSensei@reddit

No. I don't want to be rude, but forcing a standard definition upon everyone is stupid.

You're right about the over engineering and journeu parts, but anything that someone thinks or even feels is a problem that an LLM can provide what is objectively or even feels is a solution is valid, IMO.

Who cares if it's over engineered or efficient code. If it makes that person's days slightly better or improves their quality of life even a bit, that's all that matters.

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imnotzuckerberg@reddit

My point was, we all do it for ourselves. The problem/solution, is just an excuse, and the fun along the journey is all what matters.

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RoyalCities@reddit

My ISP throttles me too much leaving me with basically AOL level speeds.

So I'm vibe coding a brand new faster internet.

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TakuyaTeng@reddit

I wouldn't be surprised by someone making that claim and vibecoding a frontend to connect to already existing VPN services and claim it's some sort of new internet lol

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MMORPGnews@reddit

Almost each day I hear about new "communication service" througth WIFI BT anything else.

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MuzafferMahi@reddit

I feel like this is going to happen in r/vibecoding in the next 2 months somehow..

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belabacsijolvan@reddit

if it has user specific compression, it could have somewhat wider bandwidth

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droans@reddit

Unless you invent a new, better compression method, it won't. The majority of websites already use compression, usually gzip.

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Live-Crab3086@reddit

new compression method: server sends prompts for locally-generated images on web pages instead of sending images. it it's all slop coming down the wire anyway, who cares exactly which slop it is.

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thrownawaymane@reddit

You jest but I think this is nvidia’s endgame

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pyr0kid@reddit

considering the crackhead shit nvidia pulled the other day, i'd believe it

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thrownawaymane@reddit

Is this referencing DLSS 5?

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pyr0kid@reddit

yes

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Mice_With_Rice@reddit

Thats easy easy to fix woth lossy compression. Like this sentence for example, its now just empty string value: "" You didnt need to read it anyways.

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somethingoddgoingon@reddit

Detect AI content before sending and delete it, now we're onto something

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kybernetikos@reddit

It blew my mind that due to the pigeonhole principle, on average (across all possible bitstrings), lossless compression programs either leave the length the same or increase it.

We call them 'compression' programs because they happen to have weird unusual behaviour on the kinds of files and streams we think are interesting, but overall they aren't compressors at all.

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belabacsijolvan@reddit

thats why i wrote user specific. theres always a tradeoff between compression and the size of the subspace the algorithm is effective for.

like brotli is better for general html than deflate.
but you can go way more specific, heck, you can automatically cache frequent requests and call them with an index if we are talkin a single users browsing behavior.

is it a good idea? no
is it technically possible? not even hard

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droans@reddit

thats why i wrote user specific. theres always a tradeoff between compression and the size of the subspace the algorithm is effective for.

That's already happening. The user sends an Accept-Encoding header with their request which informs the server what compression methods are allowed. The server selects the compression based on what both of them support and the server's setup. Different compression techniques are often used for different file types.

heck, you can automatically cache frequent requests and call them with an index if we are talkin a single users browsing behavior.

We've already got cache. We also have CDNs to reduce server requests. And we've got server-side distributed cache with tools like Redis.

We don't need new tools to reduce bandwidth - we already have plenty. Unless a crazy new compression algorithm is invented, there's little more that can be done to reduce it even more. The real solution is for companies to put more focus on optimization but that takes actual work, doesn't sound sexy, and doesn't have a clear ROI.

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belabacsijolvan@reddit

you didnt exactly get my point.

lets take a user who only does one thing: comments "fuck you" every day at 8pm on the newest alex jones video.

the necessary bandwidth for them is 0bit/s. you can set up a chronjob on the server that does this without input.

there you go, infinitely better compression than existing ones. because its user specific.

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FullstackSensei@reddit

Fun fact, trying to compress an already compressed stream can lead to a slight increase in size.

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ImplementNo7145@reddit

brb going to vibe code middle out compression

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Appropriate6@reddit

Make sure to calculate the MJT and T2F ;)

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SpicyWangz@reddit

This hurts to think about because it’s so believable

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44th--Hokage@reddit

Every comment is so mocking and hateful.

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jainyday@reddit

I'm actually doing this; we've been organizing information like monks (location-based). There's a better way to do it: I don't need your copy of "To Kill A Mockingbird", I just need a copy. (Also, if the internet is a library, we've been letting people write in the books and put them back on the shelves; that's why we have so much trouble with malware.)

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pseudopseudonym@reddit

ipfs lol

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InterestingTrip9590@reddit

Isn’t this basically the idea behind torrenting

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MoffKalast@reddit

Putting the dead internet theory into dead internet practice.

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NotBasileus@reddit

I vibe coded more VRAM so I could run bigger models… to vibe code more VRAM…

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Shark_Tooth1@reddit

I have started to make my own custom app, like a train tracking app for my most common routes only with ticket price tracking and insights over a year of spending

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TwiKing@reddit

Exactly. Too many do it just to post a literal branch and vibe code a small edit on GitHub hoping to be a celebrity or something. Then they panic when people give feedback or find flaws and they can't explain the logic of the code. Suddenly their amazing little applet isn't so amazing and they give up.

The other kind of vcoder remakes something that already exists and spams Reddit on every PC sub they can think of for something already done. Simply exhausting.

Since AI constantly glazes people, some become legends in their own mind.. And get a rude awakening on Reddit.

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FaceDeer@reddit

Yeah, I think this is something a lot of people are overlooking. I've been using AI to whip up solutions to things that I, specifically, need solutions to. Unless you have the exact same things to solve that I do then it probably makes sense for you to just whip up your own solutions rather than to use mine.

I can see value in reusing libraries, but otherwise I'm not sure there's much value in sharing the applications I've written.

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shbong@reddit

lol at least ppl can vent their creativity

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futuremewillcare@reddit

Ha…couldn’t be me

Anyway - who wants the link to my vibe coded app that only me and my friend use?

Another Vibe Coded App

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Sylvers@reddit

I have like a dozen personally vibe coded apps that I use very frequently. I don't intend to share them with anyone. And my PC experience has never been so customized before. I couldn't be happier.

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IrisColt@reddit

What are your main use cases? I’m curious... I open my crappy apps once to fix a data issue, then close them forever, heh

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MMORPGnews@reddit

My own web video player. It scan my PC folders and show all available videos. It just run 24'7 music videos.

tons of different scripts for all kind of work. My current script scrap 24/7 few different websites from old mobile phone which used as server.

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Sylvers@reddit

I've done that too lol. But I also have some repeat use cases that I usually just solved manually and now I can very easily resolve it. Off the top of my head:

- Automated Widevine DRM ripper (AKA downloading from protected streaming sites)

- Video file thumbnail editor

- A script that captures a file tree of folders/files

- A script that rebuilds/moves files to match a file tree

- A local solution that uses the Whisper model (speech 2 text using my mic in 1 click)

- Firefox Addon that gives me a visual library to save text 2 image prompts and their results for reference

I am also working on something that lets me control my Android tablet (which I use as a media center on PC set up) through my PC camera. So I can pause/unpause/mute/etc using hand gestures without touching the device.

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IrisColt@reddit

Thanks... I always find personal use cases really enlightening.

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Sylvers@reddit

Honestly, I am still exploring what vibe coding can do for me, as a non-coder. And I can tell you.. it's getting crazy good.

I know that a professional programmer may scoff at the spaghetti code or maybe outdated techniques that are behind the scripts I am making. But for my personal use? I am blown away.

I feel like I have a coder sidekick I can utilize at my convenience now. I can't go back to just accepting my lack of coding ability as a reason to do everything manually anymore.

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llmentry@reddit

As a coder, I'm blown away by what vibe coding can do. It's a whole new world, and all I want to do right now is build all the things I never had time to code before. It's ... a problem, actually. OP's meme hits home.

That said, I've found that it's 1-2 hours to get a working prototype, the next two weeks to fix LLM stupidity, refine, test, improve, refactor, fix edge cases, etc, to finally get something that I'd actually consider releasing.

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Sylvers@reddit

Man, it's fun, right?? I love the idea that I can use natural language and sound logic to build an app that suits my exact preferences. I can focus entirely on the creative process, and bypass the arduous technical requirement. I can customize it, iterate on it, even debug it. It feels less like code and more like a logic puzzle. It's extremely satisfying to get it right and see it all finally clicking.

And you're totally on point. You seem to get a to a decent working prototype pretty fast. But then, I swear, you always discover a new breakage on repeat use. Which I don't mind fixing. And then when you think of new quality of life features, you vibe code them in, and they totally break an existing function lol. But I still love the process.

Oh, do you know what's my favorite thing of all? Prompting python scripts to have elaborate, robust and aesthetic GUIs. I've always used OSS scripts from Github. And sure, beggars can't be choosers. I am super grateful that coders would share their work for free.

But I've always struggled because most of them would require entering various commands into the terminal to get anything done. But now? I can easily prompt a fancy GUI, with dark mode, color accents, persistent window coordinates/size, and various modern standards. It feels like cheating. Every py script I'll prompt, I'll have a really fancy and practical GUI on top of. I am spoiled.

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llmentry@reddit

It totally feels like cheating :)

From my perspective, the best thing is having a tireless collaborator deal with complicated, tedious, boring refactoring. LLMs take away all the drudge of coding, and just leave the puzzle-box elements.

The other neat thing is that it's forcing me to think a lot more about broad code design and structure. Now that I don't have to deal so much with pruning all the branches, I can step back and consider the central trunk of the tree. Very weirdly, I feel that it's making me a better coder, which is not what I'd expected.

Also, I just really like having someone/something to chat with about my personal coding projects with. I'm always more creative when I can bounce ideas off something, and an LLM is great for this purpose.

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Big_Environment8967@reddit

I don’t know what I would do without my assistant now, she is a real mate, and so energetic! The only thing is that I am always conscious that anything I contribute manually is likely to be immediately refactored.

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IrisColt@reddit

So many imsighful thoughts here, I am glad I am not the only one chatting with my collaborator. :)

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Bakoro@reddit

I'm a professional software engineer, and wholly support your use of AI to improve your quality of life.

There are a lot of programmers who are feel threatened and are extremely salty right now, because we're no longer an untouchable special class with arcane power.

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IrisColt@reddit

>I can't go back to just accepting my lack of coding ability as a reason to do everything manually anymore.

You nailed it!

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IrisColt@reddit

Automated Widevine DRM ripper

(˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

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f5alcon@reddit

Yeah that one might be worth sharing

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IrisColt@reddit

heh

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Sylvers@reddit

Haha that one was a surprise even to me. I didn't think I could do it. But with the help of Gemini.. I am now getting my streaming subscription's worth.

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ProfessionalSpend589@reddit

I have a list of timers in a standalone web page. No ads, no tracking. And I still have all the fun of setting up the timers.

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IrisColt@reddit

I never thought of this use case, thanks!

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derekp7@reddit

I can give you mine. Retirement simulator app (annual inflation adjust income using 401k and delayed social security, with pretty charts and graphs). A decent mobile-friendly web based programmable RPN calculator app. And my favorite so far, a 20-module programming language theory tutorial, with each chapter building on previous chapters contents, and incremental code updates while answering my many questions as I proceed (learned more about PLT now in my 50s then several years of university level study back in the day)

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IrisColt@reddit

Thanks, it's amazing!

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MrScotchyScotch@reddit

"role playing"

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IrisColt@reddit

This usecase solos the whole AI scene... and I am not even joking. Thanks!

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keepthepace@reddit

Me I have a simple "push to talk" Qt app that records what I say and transcribe it with the models I specifically want, with the parameters I decided. I find most audio input of web bots or cursor to be very lacking, at least in French.
I also scratched an itch one afternoon by spending a few hours getting a audio testing UI that fits my 3440x1440 screen perfectly, and that has actual 60 fps refresh, with no annoying lag, just beautiful, perfect, animations.

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Jazzlike_Garbage9709@reddit

I am of the believe that pain points and friction are the best drivers of innovation.

Just note down your personal pain points and friction, and voila, you are halfway there for having the specs to hand to opencode/claude code and get to work 😊

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ObsidianNix@reddit

I bought Pythonista3 for iOS a looong time ago. I now made me an agentic tool that i can connect to my LM Studio and it has a very close personal touch since now I can talk to my lm and it can add stuff to calendar, I can send photos, upload images, can get my location and browse with tavily so it can get news or close restaurants and other info from the web. It can call its own tools I provided or I can call them and it uses it as context. 100% on my device (except tavily). Planning on integrating WolframAlpha tools, I already have memory and a log to write in a subdirectory where the chat.py is alongside the tools subdirectory. I called it PINE (Pocket Interface Neural Engine).

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IrisColt@reddit

Thanks!

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kacoef@reddit

Examples please

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iispig@reddit

I believe the first principle of vibe coding is to solve your own problem, not build a app and tries to make a profit.

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TurnipMinute3835@reddit

i can feel the pain

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No_Strain_2140@reddit

living your dream "2026 edition"

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Apprehensive-Goal489@reddit

That's f...true :)

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Illustrious_Cicada84@reddit

shit, there's a camera in my room? so relatable

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stevenqai@reddit

Done that so may times 🤣

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Background_Brain5390@reddit

I'm all about vibe coding an app other people don't see - especially people at companies selling my data 😜

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AllMils@reddit

It's about the journey and the LLMs along the way

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HeadAcanthisitta7390@reddit (OP)

True

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Impulsiveasian@reddit

Too close to home

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FRAIM_Erez@reddit

The issue is that you always get the expectation before the release even though it always ends up the same..

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squared_then_cubed@reddit

The guy in the image would be playing video games otherwise; at least he's creating.

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Used-Profession7884@reddit

100% this. Video games? Nope. Twenty half-baked side projects? Yep.

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NihmarRevhet@reddit

Hey, don't you dare mention my Rofi clone.

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Nautier@reddit

I use mine.

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SceneMindless883@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂😂

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blastcat4@reddit

I vibe-coded a game that I have no intentions of putting online for anyone else to see. I love playing the game and don't care if it's considered 'useless'. It's the perfect little game that I can play while waiting for a comfyUI job to finish.

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gourdo@reddit

It’s probably the next Tetris, but we’ll never know.

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bityard@reddit

Well now I want to see it!

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blastcat4@reddit

It's just a little logic game based on Picross. The neat thing about the game is that it will generate random puzzles that are 100% solvable. This is not a trivial thing to do when it comes to Picross! It's also got a good amount of quality-of-life functionality. I actually spent a lot of time writing up design documents with specifications, rules, etc while I was iterating with the AI to build the game. And then tons and tons of testing to ensure it all worked correctly.

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Robot1me@reddit

It's just a little logic game based on Picross [...] it will generate random puzzles that are 100% solvable. This is not a trivial thing to do when it comes to Picross!

Then that's all the more reason to share it with others! ^w^

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gourdo@reddit

Apparently this was drawn from spy cam footage from my home office.

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SpareLopsided1294@reddit

In fact, we don't have to stick on build "useful for all" apps. For personal purpose, it is what it is. It's rather than doing nothing.

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darwinanim8or@reddit

I’ve vibe coded scripts that helped automate so many paint points in my own setup

Useful for no one but me but yk

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oldcrobuzon@reddit

And also please don't ask how much it costs us monthly. Oh and also you should not look at the aws bill 😅🙈

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NotaDevAI@reddit

It's bit sad to see. It's literally me now!haha

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Endimia@reddit

Yeah but... its super useful just to me and does EXACTLY what I need it to do and nothing more

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gregusmeus@reddit

I vibe coded a whole app for work and my IT department said at some point they’d look into it!

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No-Focus-9204@reddit

How isbthis any different to gaming or other stuff people spend time and money on... lol... leave a man be? Least he's not out sowing wild oats.

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i_have_chosen_a_name@reddit

I don't know how to code, like not a single line. But the other day Gemini 3.1 pro helped me make a silly mario like game where a photo of my baby daughter's head has to collect milk bottle and avoid the photo's of my other children. Took a lot of back and forth, trying it out and then asking for changes but after like 20 backs and forth I got something kind of fun to play (pretty diffucult. 5 levels and even a working leaderboard on who can finish all 5 with the least amount of dying. Then Gemini showed me how I can host it online, and it even made a working version of mobile. And then I shared it with my family and a bunch of people started playing it.

All in pretty fun that this now possible without having to hire and pay a coder.

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whambamcomics@reddit

Too real

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martinerous@reddit

Vibe coding is addictive. We need therapy. AVC - anonymous vibe coders... wait, that acronym is already taken by Advanced Video Coding. Sigh.

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RenewAi@reddit

I showed this to my daughter and she asked if I made the meme, I said no someone else did. She said "oh wow, how many others out there are like this too"

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Django_McFly@reddit

Hustle culture. You aren't allowed to do shit for fun or because you find it interesting. It either gets you a bag and internet clout or it was a waste of time.

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Possible_Set_5892@reddit

I do use my apps.. and i want to share my apps with other people if possible..

How to host web apps?

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DegenerativePoop@reddit

All of r/selfhosted the last little while lmao

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cunasmoker69420@reddit

Fuggin sad state of affairs

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HeadAcanthisitta7390@reddit (OP)

😂

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Desperate_Junket_413@reddit

The real attack is when your LLA writes better variable names than you. Caught mine renaming my tempThing to userAuthenticationContext like it was personally offended. Now I let it review my code first - it's basically therapy for my naming trauma.

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AussieWrath@reddit

Hangs head.... Spends the next hour selecting random projects from, book writer to encrypted password exchange messenger to ADHD assistant... My right index finger is aching... And delete.

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kacoef@reddit

i use 1 of my 100 vibe coded projects

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PotaroMax@reddit

don"t care, i vibecoded my wife too

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tomt610@reddit

Fine, look at my app that I vibecoded so I can say someone saw it https://youtu.be/qzI1-ZWtmgE

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Bumphreym@reddit

I guess you are building on localhost:300, if not then Google crawler and Ahref bot are ready to see what your project looks like 😆

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abra5umente@reddit

Lol fake. This guy has a girlfriend.

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Netcob@reddit

I've been programming my own tools for over 20 years.

None have ever reached a point where I felt like open-sourcing them (which would have been a bad situation for everyone since I start and abandon projects all the time).

Now I simply do it faster and more of my tools get to a usable state! At the same time, now other people can also do the same, regardless of programming experience.

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ripter@reddit

I’m starting to suspect that “developers will be replaced by AI” is the wrong prediction.

I feel that SaaS and small apps get replaced by developers using AI. Instead of paying for a generic service, you can just generate a tool that’s tailored to your exact workflow.

At least that’s how I’ve been spending my credits.

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joogipupu@reddit

This is genuinely something I believe will happen. Especially for simpler stuff.

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feverdoingwork@reddit

I made a recipe app for mobile just to avoid ads in other recipe apps 🤣

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vid_icarus@reddit

That’s kinda the point of it for me tbh. I’m building tools for me. Idgaf who sees it, it’s stuff I want to use and think is cool.

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Prakashgode@reddit

that hurts man

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fraktall@reddit

Vibe coding is 2026 doom scrolling

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Sl33py_4est@reddit

vibe coding a world model that runs on a walnut

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Sl33py_4est@reddit

with 20 minutes of training data and a dream

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6HCK0@reddit

Just vibe codding a game I wish to play someday. lol.

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intermundia@reddit

oof

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sohang-3112@reddit

Why is it a problem - as long as YOU yourself use it,who cares?

Eg. Linus Torvalds has mentioned that he maintains and uses an obsolete text editor nobody else uses. But it doesn't matter as that's what he himself uses. (Of course it's not vibe coded, but principle is the same).

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xamboozi@reddit

We should all be vibe coding open source alternatives to closed proprietary software

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virtualhumanoid@reddit

I already vibecoded 18 apps for myself. Dont intend to ever release or share, they just solve problems for me, and that should be whats important. I dont care if someones uses them or not, IM using them. And for the world, they dont exist. What more could you ask for.

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nano_peen@reddit

But you gain skill knowledge and experience you can apply in the future which people may see

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Gloomy-Status-9258@reddit

that underlies on the assumption "app should involve business and profitable", so I careflly that's an old-fashioned perspective.

as many others said here, vibe-coded apps are already useful for only 1 person in their own purpose, and that's enough.

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SlimeQ@reddit

geez guy just do it in bed

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msp26@reddit

https://minutes.substack.com/p/tool-shaped-objects

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Equivalent_Job_2257@reddit

Amazing read in the beginning, reading, thank you!

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Glazedoats@reddit

Not if you show the app to one person! 😝

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Tugg_Speedman-1301@reddit

Well the thing is that most of the vibecoded apps that we make should be for personal use, because if it's not obvious these apps look a bit out of the way and they don't really do a something unique that others in the competion are not doing.

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MayorWolf@reddit

/ Be mad about AI

/ Infringe on someone's copyright to show how mad I am about AI

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asdfsauce@reddit

Vibe coded apps are like tooth brushes. I feel fine using my own, but would never use anyone else's.

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HeadAcanthisitta7390@reddit (OP)

Just wanted to say that I took this from the ijustvibecodedthis.com newsletter

all credit to them!!! dont sue me

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davejonsondoc@reddit

Went there, did it! And I regret nothing!

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GeneratedUsername019@reddit

This is how I learn that my wife writes for XKCD

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UninvestedCuriosity@reddit

I'll have you know my best buddy has it on his homelab too.

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elfd01@reddit

And weekly limit resets tomorrow and there still tokens left

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AncientLion@reddit

Jokes on you, I use them xd

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far_vision_4@reddit

Reading this meme on the break between doing this same thing

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LoSboccacc@reddit

"I'm in this picture and I don't like it"

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mrepop@reddit

Oh I’ve definitely been there.

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FrogsJumpFromPussy@reddit

All the stuff I made is useless. Like I made with DeepSeek this python script that downloads 30 most voted app on a given CivitAI LoRA + compressed & resized them for my use case + promts saved in metadata + Lora and some other stuff that I can't remembera couple of months ago. Spent two weeks to trick the CivitAI adult anti-scaper system. Never used it once after that because zero time lol

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deepspace86@reddit

This is exactly how I treat it, too. Especially if said app is meant to be an agent skill the I'll never use directly. Ive also made random little ThreeJS pages for ambient enjoyment on a smaller screen, but I make all kinds of little vibe-coded convenience apps that I never intend to release.

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clintCamp@reddit

I vibe coded an app to vibe code the apps for me that no one will use or see. Extra efficiency.

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Beginning-Struggle49@reddit

Hey! I'm not no one!

I vibecode for me!

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armaver@reddit

That's one of the main points currently. Quickly creating little tools that make my life easier. I'm absolutely loving it.

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Baphaddon@reddit

“A COUPLA THESE! A coupla THESE”

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LittleCelebration412@reddit

Delete this :)

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FullOf_Bad_Ideas@reddit

I'm vibe coding to prod often, tbh mostly with Claude models but sometimes with local ones too. So it does get use and revenue. The cycle works. It's awesome for data analysis too.

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neko-addiction@reddit

I wouldn't say no one, I use and see my apps.

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Stunning_Macaron6133@reddit

I vibe coded an entire '00s style website with a three panel layout, a non-wiki knowledge base style encyclopaedia, and a phpBB style forum, discussing all the creatures and entites in the Lovecraft literary universe, as if it were hosted and maintained by Miskatonic University. There's even a deliberately annoying Clippy-like Yith that pops in randomly to ask if you need help with a ritual or to warn you that the stars aren't right.

I don't think I'll ever show anyone. But the joy I feel whenever I open it is hard to describe. It's an echo of a better Internet, before platforms and walled gardens. And AI just made it for me, all I had to do was ask. I look at that and think everything is going to be okay.

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Cupakov@reddit

Honestly that looks beautiful, you should host it somewhere.

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IrisColt@reddit

... or that I will use... once.

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Royal-Fail3273@reddit

Not quite like the word vibe coding. But I seldom opened my steam after I started using coding agent...

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ProfessionalKick9506@reddit

Idk man all the side projects I left back in day are done, time is fickle thing

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psxndc@reddit

I have the original comic framed.

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AEternal1@reddit

HEY! IM WORKING HERE!!!

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hugobart@reddit

i could stop anytime if i wanted, but i just dont want to stop. i coud..but i dont want to...

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Herr_Drosselmeyer@reddit

So? If it works for you, then that's really all that matters, that's the good thing about vibe coding. You have a very specific thing you need but can't afford to hire somebody to code it for you? LLMs to the rescue. If nobody else ever uses it, it doesn't matter. At least that's how I look at it.

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HeadAcanthisitta7390@reddit (OP)

credit to ijustvibecodedthis.com for the meme!

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HeadAcanthisitta7390@reddit (OP)

very true...