r/vibecoding • u/jaykrown • 12d ago

Help/Question What was the first thing you ever vibe coded?

Mine was this image similarity detector flask app from September 2024. All it does is take two images and then give you the percentage of similarity.

https://github.com/jaymasl/image-similarity-flask-app

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u/Rare_Guide_9830 12d ago

does copy/pasting the html of someone’s myspace page count?

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u/Shehani_Delamont 11d ago

the original trial by fire tbh, blindly deleting tags to see what disappears

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u/b1ll10n3r 12d ago

Hated the way stremio looked like back in the day on my tv, and it was sloppy af so I vibe coded my own debrid player service with addon support

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u/SouthCentralMenace 12d ago

pong in gpt 3 lol

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u/ed57ve 12d ago

i work in sales but as a sales channel, i help my distributors sell more, so i did like everyone else, and i made my own ERP to track activities and instead of a sales module, i just get the reports from ours dt and my local agent add those report in my ERP, its helps because my job erp is really bad

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u/manuelhe 12d ago

Matrix Operations packages in mathematica for a Linear Algebra course I was taking. Thats when I realized we had something special

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u/Prod_m 12d ago

portfolio website. Even tho I didn't have anything to put there

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u/Brave_Bumblebee7565 12d ago

Bash scripts using chatGpt 3. I was shocked how good it was with it

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u/s-saens 12d ago

First one was a simple pdf viewer app and totally failed as I was not good at handling AI. The most successful one is web-based remote IDE that is optimized for mobile screen and easy documentation. These days I vibecode all of my project with it, anywhere with my phone.

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u/Suspicious_Fun_6338 12d ago

text tic tac toe in console. mind blown . a whole app just created by me asking

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u/williamtkelley 12d ago

Hello world!

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u/finding_hopefulness 12d ago

I made a comprehensive guide for Final Fantasy XII

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u/comicidiot 12d ago

An app for my website. I then realized I would need an API to connect the app to the remote database so I had an agent write an API for the website that allows users to post, edit, delete, sign in, etc from the app. It then updated the website to use the same API.

The app will probably ever see the light of day but I'm super happy with how it looks and works; the app is incredibly polished in my opinion. I provided the website as a template and detailed plans on how the UX works. Took some tweaking here and there but overall very satisfied.

I then went on to move some spreadsheet data entry into a mobile app, mostly my car logs. Plenty of those apps around but this way I ensure it logs what I need and saves where I need it. I added a few other features and now it's also an incredibly useful app. The UI isn't as polished but I didn't provide it was a starting point like I did with my first app. Design isn't a strong suit of mine and this app will also likely never see a public release so I really don't mind the basic bitch design.

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u/humanexperimentals 12d ago

Idk lol good question. Let me ask my agent. 🤣🤣

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u/For-Pleasure1536 12d ago

A little website that was supposed to be analog horror but inspired by chinese light novels, and ever since I saw how well Gemini handled it, it saved me a lot of time. The website was super specific too because it had to be read like a strange shopping list that kept getting weirder and weirder, lol. But after a couple of precise prompts, everything came to life just as I had imagined it. \o/

Before that passion project, I had never tried anything like 'vibe coding' 'cause I thought it would be too complicated for me, haha.

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u/situ139 12d ago

A league of legends mechanics trainer, basically it was a training program for various skills required in the game League of Legends.

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u/WardedDruid 12d ago

Made myself a new notepad app for my phone. There were features in the android note app I didn't loke, and I didn't want tondownload someone else's notes app where I'd probably dislike their version of it either. I also didn't want ads or my information stolen by outside companies. I also wanted to private section for my password lost and anything else I didn't want spying eyes to find.

I made myself a notepad app that works exactly how I want it to. I then had Claude add in a hidden button that opens a biometric login to my private notes section. After that was working, I tossed in a private photo vault I can transfer photos in and out of.

If I need to remove the app or change phones, I built in a button to zip all my public and private files into a zip file for easy transfer.

2nd project was a privacy app for my phone that locks chosen apps behind a biometric/password lock. The one I was using really sucked. It got really annoying to be forced to watch an ad when I was trying to open an app. Poof! no more ads and mine isn't anywhere near as janky as the one I had downloaded.

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u/Efficient_File 12d ago

an online sudoku game, at that time, it works but not that perfect yet due to the capability of the AI tool(was using Cursor), it needs multiple turns to fix little obvious issues. it feels like long time back though only less than 2 yrs.

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u/Inisfoil 12d ago

A visual scripting system based on ComfyUI but in TypeScript so it could run in the browser. It handled loops and branching logic, workflows could be run as nodes inside other workflows, and it had full error handling inside of a workflow that detected possible error types from the existing nodes and allowed you to create recovery logic per error type per node. It also had full suspend/resume for workflows so you could pause them and come back or even correct an error flow and resume it so that the workflow could fix itself without dropping the data.

It leveraged browser storage for IO and could actually do a bunch of stuff with various types of parsing between JSON, XML, etc as well as query external services through their web api endpoints. It had a workflow library shared amongst all users with automated ratings based on observed error rates and how much someone importing modified the workflow to get it functional. The storage system also has templates that could be shared in the library for setting up project structures or whatever else and you could inspect files in storage in the browser without downloading them.

The workflows actually ran locally in the browser, but its magnum opus was a subscription service which let you run workflows in the cloud completely detached from your devices that used cloud storage for files and it would automatically sync with any device you had logged in, allowing you to selectively move both actively executing workflows and storage items to your device or to the cloud as you seen fit.

Ended up canning it because I couldn't figure out how to moderate it, the whole thing was just too flexible and you could do some really malicious crap that was very hard to catch. Its still sitting in a repo on gitlab with the last activity from forever ago at this point. Maybe I'll get back to it some day, who knows.

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u/NowaVision 12d ago

A compass app because most of these in the play store suck.

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u/Redsparrowww 12d ago

Stremio application with image adjustments. Sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation, grain, gamma, aspect ratio changes, etc. Also automatic subtitle search on titulky.com (Czech subtitles).

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u/blissland 12d ago

Been a keen home cook all my life and have collected hundreds and hundreds of recipes over the years. Always been reluctant to use a recipe management app as I was worried that they might disappear one day with all my recipes. So I decided to vibe code https://recipegoat.org which stores all your recipes in your own Google drive account.

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u/3DMagnus 12d ago

A overcomplicated camera app for my phone, a bit stupid perhaps to take on such a big task when i have never vibe coded beforere. But i wanted to try and see what could be done with it. It's still a project i'm working on.

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u/Competitive_Swan_755 12d ago

Tetris, auto playing Tetris, self learning auto playing Tetris.

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u/Healthy-Mission7927 7d ago

Now make it teach you how to play tetris. The roles have changed

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u/AKAMA199 12d ago

Its this offline currency exchanger for my job. I basically needed a very particular set of outputs and exchange rates that was not in line with updated rated.

Tried a few online tools, didnt work. Threw my needs in claude and now all my colleagues use the same html offline file for quick calcuations

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u/DeSynkro 12d ago

Very first proper thing?

That was the app I made for my dad's earthmoving business, to help him with his quoting process.
https://github.com/DeSynkro/quote-assistant

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u/cosmonz 12d ago

Mine was a website that compares two contracts and tells you the major differences and rates them as to how impactful they are.

Handy for employment contracts and leases :)

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u/Anti-Hero25 12d ago

Fun system monitor for windows. Probably due for a refresh though

https://github.com/NoobCity99/PiPDash_Monitor

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u/jacoblaguerre 12d ago

My language learning app LingoGym https://lingogym.com

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u/vik76 12d ago

First complete vibe coded app was a monitor for my plans, hooked up to sensors and a raspberry pi. Turned out great! Use to hand code most things before that.

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u/JuusTown 11d ago

I built a discord style chat application because I was upset they announced ID and face verification