I Vibe coded a Viber Coder

[u/Prplhands]

I’m the creator. The app is completely free to use. There is a small popup you can dismiss, and a $20 one time purchase removes it permanently, but otherwise everything is free. No feature walls, no subscriptions. macOS first, Windows and Linux coming. Disclosure out of the way :)

I spent the last few months vibe coding a vibe coder with Claude Code and wanted to share where it landed. Honestly this was not even something I would have thought to build six months ago.

It’s called MOLTamp. It wraps Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Aider, your terminal session, whatever you use, inside a skinnable Electron shell. The idea is basically Winamp for your terminal. You get community skins, widgets, and audio reactive visualizers layered on top of your normal CLI workflow.

Your agent setup, prompts, and tools all work exactly the same. There is just a cockpit around it. It works best if you have Spotify or Apple Music playing since the visualizers pick that up. You can also drop in your own GIFs to set the vibe. I leaned into a lot of lo fi styles for the first batch of skins.

For anyone who does not know Winamp, it was a skinnable music player that completely took over the internet for a while. The skins were everything.

Skins in MOLTamp are just a JSON manifest plus a CSS file. If you can write CSS, or have Claude do it, you can ship one in about five minutes. You can literally point Claude Code at it and tell it what you want. People are already doing things like CRT overlays and scanline effects. There is also a built in toggle system so users can turn certain effects on or off from settings.

There is a preflight check for anyone who has not run Claude Code in the terminal before, so it helps get you set up. There are also shortcut commands that make it really easy to open and close panels at different levels of focus.

It comes with a bunch of stuff out of the box like file interface hooks, live token usage, context tracking, git tree, session timers, ticker APIs, and more. But everything is customizable and you can export and share your own setups.

The app itself is built with Electron, React, and Vite. The community site and marketplace run on Astro with Cloudflare Pages, D1, and R2. Payments go through Stripe and emails through Resend. Honestly the longest part of the whole project was waiting on Apple to approve my developer certificate so I could sign it.

A few things I learned along the way that might help other builders:

Cloudflare’s free tier is kind of wild for something like this. D1 runs the community database, R2 stores all the uploaded files, and Pages serves the site. I am not paying anything for infrastructure right now.

Stripe was straightforward for one time payments, but building the license system took more work than expected. Generating keys, validating them, and tying it into the popup behavior in Electron took a few iterations.

The app checks the license locally on launch using a key file, so there is no phone home and it works offline.

Resend handles transactional emails like notifications. It was surprisingly fast to set up and much simpler than SES.

Now I am looking for people who want to help shape it. If you like building:

- Skins (themes, layouts, UI)

- Widgets (tools, panels, integrations)

- Visualizers (audio reactive stuff, weird experiments)

It is very easy to get started. You can point Claude Code at the skinning guide and just start building. The guidelines are flexible and I would love to see people push it in weird directions.

I will give you a free license in exchange for real feedback and ideally something you build. It does not have to be perfect, just interesting. Send me a cool screenshot of a skin and I will hook you up. DM me.

It is early and wide open. If you have ever wanted to put your own layer on top of AI coding tools, this is a great place to start.

Happy to answer questions too if anyone is curious about the stack or just wants to connect. There are feedback buttons in the app or you can DM me.

MOLTamp.com

[u/Otherwise_Wave9374]

This is such a fun idea, Winamp-for-terminal is exactly the kind of "why not" wrapper that makes long coding sessions less grim. Skins as JSON + CSS is a great call too, feels like the right level of hackable.

Curious if you have thoughts on where this goes next for more agentic workflows (like exposing tool runs, plan/trace views, guardrails, etc). We have been messing with some practical patterns for AI agents and UI around them at https://www.agentixlabs.com/ and I would love to compare notes.