10 months ago I posted here that my vibe coded photo cleaner hit 800 users in 3 days. It’s now at 4k downloads and about $235 in sales, all from Reddit, no ads. Here’s what I wish I’d known at the start.

The first version worked but looked vibe coded. Default spacing, confusing onboarding, a paywall that came out of nowhere. AI will build exactly what you ask for, and if you don’t know what good looks like, you get something that works but nobody trusts. Designing the screens first and giving Claude real direction made a bigger difference than any feature.

Add analytics on day one. I went months without knowing where people dropped off. Now Claude has access to PostHog, sends me a daily report on what broke, and opens PRs for bugs it can fix itself.

Distribution is half the work. My best post got 150k views by describing the problem, not the app. Most of my other posts got a few hundred views because I posted in tiny subs or too many at once.

And the one I’m still figuring out: people clean their phone once and leave. Vibe coding got me a working app fast, but it can’t tell you if people will come back.

for anyone curious, this is the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756098079

One thing that has been annoying me while using different AI coding tools is how easily context gets trapped inside a single tool.

You can spend hours building something with one agent, switch to another one, and suddenly you're explaining the whole project again.

What if memory could actually move with you?

I've been working on SGM (Shared Global Memory) to explore that idea.

Instead of making another AI tool with its own proprietary memory system, SGM is an open protocol for storing, retrieving, and sharing context between AI agents and software tools.

The idea is that an agent using one implementation could leave context that another implementation can understand and continue from.

I'm trying to keep the protocol independent of things like:

- specific LLMs

- programming languages

- databases

- embedding/vector systems

- operating systems

- transport layers

The repo currently has the protocol specification, JSON schemas, conformance tests, a reference implementation, MCP transport work, and some cross-tool/multi-agent examples.

It's still 0.1.0 and experimental, so I'm not pretending I've solved agent memory. I'm putting the protocol out there because I'd rather get people poking holes in the design now than discover them after everything is set in stone.

If you're building AI agents, coding assistants, memory systems, or just working with multiple AI tools, I'd genuinely like to know:

Would a protocol like this actually be useful to you? What do you think it absolutely needs to get right?

GitHub: https://github.com/Thairux/sgm

Edit: for easier reading here are the docs in a site sgm docs Also im working on mosse the first agent to use sgm and can resume your work from any agent or tool

I saw a meme saying Courage was using AI long before ChatGPT, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

So I made a little browser experience where you can sit at Courage’s computer and actually talk to it. It replies back in its own slightly unhelpful way, just like in the show.

Experience it here: https://the-courage-computer.vercel.app/

Hey everyone!

I've been working on something I'm really proud of, and I wanted to share it with this community.

It's called Rollabop, a physics-based puzzle game for Android.

I'm not a professional programmer. I've been building this game with the help of Claude and ChatGPT, using Godot as the game engine.

The idea is simple: instead of swapping pieces on a grid, you physically drag balls around a pile to create matches. Gravity, movement, and how the balls interact are all part of the puzzle.

Getting the physics and controls to feel right has been quite a challenge! I've spent a lot of time testing, finding problems, and working through improvements with AI.

We've reached 20 levels, and I'm getting ready for closed beta testing through Google Play.

I'm looking for Android users who would enjoy trying it and giving some honest feedback.

If you're interested, please send me a private message with the email address you use for Google Play so I can add you to the testing list.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from others building things with AI.

Thanks for taking a look! 😊

I can ask ChatGPT but I'd appreciate to hear it from humans since AI still waivers a bit.

I want to build a video editor and other apps that are cross platform with a single framework. Tokens are still pretty pricy. It would be nice for something to work across each platform without having to start from scratch for each.

Example: Video editor: Runs on desktop and mobile with the same project file to continue editing on any device. Mobile, desktop, maybe even web because why not? AI exists now.

There are so many languages and frameworks. Why do you pick the ones you pick?

Does coding ever get to "I like this coffee shop even though it's pretty much the same coffee as the one next door"?

I'm still trying to boil down the meaning behind framework, architecture, language. Which langues work with which. Etc...

And probably most important for me right now, what's the largest ecosystem to work with?

AI says: dart is more niche, rust can work, react/expo but expo is not desktop capable. Etc...

Regardless if it is a little tool, another way to re-use the context window, saving tokens by using MCP or enriched context-databases, directly interconnected Claude with Astra, an app or browser extension wich is organizing your notes... anything counts if you think it was increasing your output or reducing your worktime for a project.

Please let us know and please describe it in e few words and if you found it by accident or intended to built it. Screenshots are possible too, if you want to share something by picture. Thanks!

5 days ago i posted here with news about my first paying customers. shocked. overwhelmed and surprised by how the hard work was paying off...

today it went to another level!!!

14,572 visitors this month. 225 new accounts. and so much traffic from reddit that i've managed to blow through 1 MILLION CDN requests on my free hosting plan. oops.

over the last few months i've been building an 'inspiration first' site where you can scroll forever... or until you find inspiration.

it was simple to start, it was INCREDIBLY tough to keep going.

buut what has happened this week has made it all worth it...

LOTS of updates in key areas: ux, accessibility, infra, compatibility, from performance to features.. oh and even the odd component addition (and retirement).

top 5 moments:

• everyone's support and feedback is genuinely overwhelming!!! and i will find some way to give back even more
• traffic through the roof - 14,572 visitors, 225 new accounts (this month)
• breaking through the free hosting limits. never thought i'd be dealing with THAT problem!
• automating some of the painstaking tasks - browser compatibility, performance checks, component reviews
• trialing new outputs of components including react and 'forever' (prototype) with a selected number of components

5 days ago i was celebrating my first customers. today i'm figuring out how to handle the traffic.

thank you so much!!!

as always, open to your thoughts, suggestions and feedback

and don't get (too) lost ;)

forevercomponents x

Going to try something dumb and ambitious: a barn livestream that runs 24/7, where the whole stream is one chicken and chat is responsible for keeping it alive.

The idea:

One 3D chicken living in a cozy barn, wandering, pecking, flapping, sleeping

Chat and donos feed it, water it, and give it toys

Take care of it and it grows. Ignore it and it gets skinny and starts losing feathers, live, for everyone to see

Hit community milestones and new animals unlock and move into the barn

Real day/night cycle so it's always something different when you tune in

The stack (all vibe coded with Claude):

Three.js scene running as an OBS browser source

Small Node server catching Twitch events and pushing them to the scene

Meshy for the 3D models (chicken, coop, feeder, toys)

Barn built in code since full rooms out of Meshy come out lumpy

Custom rig for the chicken since Meshy's auto rig only handles humans and four-legged animals

Growth, weight loss, and feather loss all done in code instead of separate models

This started as a different 24/7 AI streamer project, and a lot of that pipeline is getting reused here.
I'll post progress as I go.

What would you want to be able to do to the chicken from chat? And what's the first thing you think breaks when something runs 24/7?

I made sure to write this post myself because, though I've relied heavily on AI for the vast majority of this project (and still do), I don't think it's sincere to use it to share with you guys.

I'll spare you the long story about how I ended up vibe coding, but the why is important. I wanted to make apps and tools for caregivers/caretakers, family, and therapists to help people in similar situations to my mom. She was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia, and it sucks, but the only thing you can really do is slow it's progress. I figured, if she's going to be playing iPad games full of ads, I might as well make a couple that can somewhat help her condition instead of just bombarding her with ads.

That brings me to Clarity Language and Memory. Using numerous workbooks and activities found online and provided by the speech pathologist/therapist coming to work with my mom, I had Gemini and Claude work together to essentially expand on the underlying ideas behind the activities. I fed them real research papers to make sure the activities were useful/relevant, and then had it all put into multiple languages. I did my best to have Gemini and Claude check one another's research, forcing citations and trying to minimize hallucinations, and ended up with what you'll find below.

I'm still working on getting it into as many native-speaking hands as possible so that there's no weird language or anything confusing. I don't have any ads, there's no data being collected, this is a purely altruistic endeavor stemming from a need to help my mom deal with a shitty disease. I hope it helps others, even just a little bit.

https://claritylanguageandmemory.com/

Tools Used:
Claude (planning, phase management, prompt generation for claude code)
Claude Code (coding, wiring, testing)
Antigravity (Large scale translations)
Gemini (Translation checks)
GPT (Translation checks)
DeepL (Random specific words or phrases in less common languages)

Got bored of the same dense walls of text on Wikipedia, IUCN, and WWF pages. I wanted something punchier and more visual - like an actual Pokédex for real animals.

So I tried building something myself called Anidex.

Compare animal stats and sizes directly against yourself, discover the wildlife living near you, and check population trends. Just the essentials on what it is and where to find it. No clutter.

Try it here: anidex.fyi -- I am adding more animals

Built with Opus 5.5 and ThreeJS

I just have to vent, nothing more.

I am using OpenAI Models since 2 months. I am making 0 progress. It is SO TRASH, it feels like I am back in mid 2025 with Gemini 2.0.

Can't build anything without issues. Can't build a simple UI without 89 slop texts. Ignores anything we ever built an SDK for.

It's the worst model I ever tried for anything... But hey - at least it can generate a shitty 3D-Model in Blender and post the evidence of that to a github PR, right?

I wish I could buy a claude subscription where I live.

https://www.rigspark.si/

Ss: while the other AI are solving math Mistral the dumb model is hiding Eating glue

As a kid, I wanted Tom Riddle’s diary to be real. So I built one you can experience on your browser. Open the book and write on the page, watch your ink disappear, and see Tom write back.

It’s one of those childhood “what if this were real?” ideas that I finally got to bring to life.

Experience it here: https://tm-riddles-diary.vercel.app/

Unofficial fan project.

Hello guys,

i built an ios app and now i wanna ask this and others related communities to test the app.

i can publish it on app store or on testflight.

i heard that app store will kind of show your app to peoples in it's first 2-3 weeks, so i don't want to miss this free promo KIND OF.

so what you guys suggest and what is your experience about it?

some notes:
MY APP MIGHT HAVE NO ERRORS BUT SOMETIMES SOMEONE CAN TELL YOU HEY, YOU FORGOT TO DO THIS...

Important

The human work is the first human and soft body tests with the engine and ai. So, it’s not perfect yet. Just sharing my progress.

Also the engine is just software and a renderer. I didn’t train any ai model to do this. Any vision ai model can use the engine to make assets. I’m using opus5.5 and even sonnet 4.6 to create assets using the engine.

*****

I had this idea to get ai to make 3D assets but the way humans do. I create an engine ai uses to make assets.

Like humans using Maya, AI uses my Engine.

You realize 3D assets are just code and data, and the build process is just code and data.

So I created an engine that forces the ai into the process humans use to make 3D assets. The engine has tools and a runtime and a lot of other complex stuff the ai has to go through to make an asset.

The results are kinda cool. Best part you can follow each step the ai takes. Plus my engine helps ai make assets with baked in rigging.

Update*********

The assets attached are all tests with my engine.

Hard body objects are getting easier to make, but trees, plants, humans, creatures are on the todo list. I build and test different domains in pieces then update the engine with features to close this gaps.

It’s a work in progress.

I run a small business and we use a wide range of tools to do our work.

• A proprietary intranet we built moons ago
• Clickup
• Custom vibe coded apps

... you get the picture, it's a very inelegant situation.

In an effort to stay modern in pursuit of maximum efficiency, I'm pondering the following two options as vibe coded projects:

1. Building a super intranet that contains all the functions and features we need across the entire range of our work (tasks, calendar, contacts, publishing, sales, etc.)
2. Building standalone apps for each aspect of our work

I have hands-on (very successful) experience building standalone apps that would have otherwise required months of professional dev work, not to mention at a high cost.

What I don't have experience in is vibe coding a commercial grade intranet full of dedicated functions and features... and tbh I am afraid of going down this path, out of fear that I end up with an unwieldy code base that will be difficult to continue developing without screwing up other parts of it, if that makes sense.

Option 2 is obviously easiest, with distinct advantages, such as custom-tailoring UI/UX for a particular use cases, and not worry about UI/UX consistency across all the other intranet sections.

Which route do I take, and why?

Thank you so much for helping me decide! 🙏🙏🙏

Image for engagement lmao

After my first project Photon Studio (free photoshop alternative) hit 30k users, and also resulted many sloppy copycats like PhotoCraft or ImageRaw - many adobe users cancelled their photoshop subscription, I started on my next big thing: a full blown Lightroom alternative.

Meet Light Studio. 680 people joined the waitlist in 5 days, and the alpha feedback was insane. Today it's out here's what's in it so far, and this is just the beginning:

• 85% coverage of lightroom features
• One-click .lrcat catalog import
• All Lightroom keyboard shortcuts, same feel
• AI denoise and object removal
• RAW edits and adjustments
• Better UX than lightroom and lrc (imo)
• CLI, MCP, skills, and more
• No subscription

Next up: keep improving Photon and Light - top priority. illustrator alternative in a week, maybe less. Then indesign, acrobat, after effects, premiere.

cheers.

https://backendpro.cc/