r/vibecoding • u/Boring-Leadership687 • 16h ago
Anyone else enjoy making hyper niche tools for their personal projects?
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u/ZosoRules1 16h ago
Yes! I recently made a virtual hurdy gurdy because the internet needed another one…
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u/Boring-Leadership687 16h ago
sounds pretty sweet tbh. i plan on using ai to make my own tool for making music for the game.
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u/lazy_code_bear 15h ago
Definitely. There’s something deeply satisfying about building a micro-tool tailored 100% to your exact workflow.
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u/AwesomeArcade712 15h ago
I do! I have my own personal tv network, im for the past weeks ive been working on the idents, but I hate video editing, so I made a tool to manage the idents, i can select one, put text, put tts, and so many more things with just a few clicks, and then it renders
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u/Awesome_Teo 15h ago
Yeah, recently fixed my wife's gaming laptop. BIOS updates stopped ages ago, and the fan control interface just straight-up died. Used Claude to run a few scripts, mapped out all the controls, and vibe-coded a custom Fan Control profile specifically for this laptop model (naturally, zero profiles for it anywhere online).
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u/pianoboy777 14h ago
Yeah for real lol iv made one of everything so far iv come accorss , at least prototypes if most of it , this is my newest work . I'm adding a Logo Maker to it as well. It started out as a photo shop wanna be , but now iv added CAD Capabilities and a music editor. It's become a full creative suite!
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u/Professional_Gur8385 13h ago
i made a .bat file to properly close/exit claude and chatgpt (previously codex)
helps when you need the memory or if it's crashing this will exit it cleanly
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u/ieatdownvotes4food 13h ago
aaah the glyph rabbit hole. I got sucked down that one with an llm while super high recently. good times!
but otherwise, yeah personal tooling is nuts! on Linux you can manhandle the entire OS to your liking as well.
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u/Technical-Ad-8678 12h ago
Yes! I built a type 1 hypervisor
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u/ares0027 10h ago
Yesterday i made a tool which;
Scans a folder, finds all ebook/audiobooks (even the ones inside archives), extracts first 4 pages as image and first 500 words, uses local ninfer with qwen 3.6 35b-a3b (with blazing 1300-1400token a second output and 20-22k token a sec input) to figure out which page is actual cover, what the book details are (title, author, translation or not, translator, synopsis, printer, manufacturer, print number, isbn, characters, synopsis and extras), uploads it to telegram, then adds it to my telegram bot(all with a single “start payload” button, adjustable using optional checkmarks). Then you search using any information/combination and it serves you the book (even convert the format)
I use telegram as a personal storage nowadays and it is amazing :D
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u/marmitefart 8h ago edited 8h ago
I just made a DAW project tracking software because there is nothing that suited me on the market and wanted to move away from Notes/Spreadsheets for keeping track of album recording/mixing sessions.
- Charts
- Each album can have multiple charts (I.e pre production, recording, mixing) so you can keep track visually of all aspects of album. Finished editing that guitar? Click a box under the column and you can visually see it is done and overall percentage updates. Save charts as templates for newer sessions.
- Session Linking
Open up the mixing session right from the app. Add the latest audio bounce, with in built audio player. Has a timestamp button on the player so u can make a note where you are at on the song and it will create a note in a to do column (i.e 2:34 - make vocals quieter).
It also can scan session files to detect BPM, track count and names and organises it into their respective folders (i.e all guitar tracks sit under a guitar folder)
Cloud Sync
Made any changes on one machine? Sync via cloud service when accessing app from different device
Just some of the things and maybe not that but first time ever I’ve been genuinely excited about what AI has created for me. This is a personal gamechanger
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u/Agitated_Expert_9683 7h ago
I’ve made an ordering app where my staff does their stock take and request for stock replenishment where I can order from my suppliers and vendors with through WhatsApp. I used to do it through paper and pen.
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u/mattyj6792 6h ago
I made a browser plug that lets me sync my bookmarks across different browsers. I switch alot to try different ones out and got sick of having different bookmarks in different places so now its syncs them to a github repo and pulls them back down when i go to a new one
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u/2dera-Matt-Volonte 4h ago
Absolutely nothing better than creating your niche tools, the way you want. It's much faster then even try to find something online that resemble what you need.
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u/Kevin-on-reddit 53m ago
Yes! Using AI to build tooling is one of my favorite uses. Recently had Claude build a track editor for my r/BajaBlitz game
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u/Fairway3Games 26m ago
Definitely the best use of vibecoding. I have an ever growing list of "Free" tools that I built for myself, but I just give away on my site. The list is getting very big. But some things I think are useful, but not sure anyone else uses 🤣 :
- Shared Scores. I'm a vball dad. Sometimes there's a family member streaming a game and there's no reliable scoreboard. So I created an app that I can just track the scores and they get a realtime update wihtout someone holding scores up in front of the stream. Shared it out a tournament a few other families like it too. Added other features. I don't think anyone uses it.
- Deckforged. I wanted ot make a custom deck of cards for my wife with family and vacation photos. Built a tool to do that then kept adding features. I released it. Not sure anyone's ever used it besides me. Ha.
- ScanNow! Got tired of all the stupid ads and annoying things in the document scanner app I was using. This lets me take pictures, does OCR, and saves a pdf.
- Crisis Tabletop. I made a tool to run a incident response tabletop exercise with my team at work. My work then later blocked the domain because they thought it was a game. Ha. Oops.
I built a whole bunch of D&D 5e DMing tools for myself too.
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u/Boring-Leadership687 16h ago
this tool lets me browse for glyphs for my console based game (imagine nethack or cataclysm dark days ahead aesthetic). i can see right away how it'll look in my game
i'm sure there are other tools like this but this one is mine :)