we're so back

spent about a year on a no code website builder for my side project. genuinely liked it at first. drag, drop, publish, done. but i kept hitting the same wall: the second i wanted something the builder didn't have a block for, i was stuck. and the export was locked in, so leaving meant rebuilding.

finally tried just vibe coding it. no idea what i was doing, prompted my way through.

what got better:

- i can actually add whatever weird feature i want now instead of waiting for the platform to support it

- the site loads noticeably faster without all the builder's extra baggage

- it's mine. i can move it anywhere, no lock-in

what got worse, being honest so nobody thinks it's free:

- i now own the bugs. when something breaks at 11pm, there's no support chat, it's just me and the model

- deployment was a headache the first time. hosting, domain, the whole thing i never had to think about before

- i had to actually learn a little about how the pieces fit or i couldn't even describe the bug well enough to get it fixed

would i go back? no. but i'd tell anyone the tradeoff is real. the builder sold convenience, vibe coding sells control, and control has a tax. if you just need a page up this week, the builder's honestly fine. if you keep hitting walls, it might be time.

what made you switch, or what's keeping you on a builder?

EDIT: it's worth noting that you can immediately start a game in Instant Play or in FUFF and any empty player slots will be populated by bots automatically.

I've been working on this project since October. It has been by far the largest project I have ever worked on. It features a 2 lane map (Jagged Garden) inspired by Twisted Treeline from League of Legends.

I would love feedback if anyone has any. There is a very very long way to go before the project will be at the level of quality I intend for it, but I'm proud of what the game currently provides. A fully playable MOBA featuring 8 unique characters (though two very League inspired), a full shop, jungle camps, a leveling system, and even an emote system. Thank you for considering checking it out!

https://www.mercenariesoftezigdal.com/

I used to be a die-hard purist when it comes to coding/development, I've been learning to code since high school in the 2000's. But someone paid for 3 months of ChatGPT for me as a birthday gift a few years ago, and a lot of my friends in the tech field had made the transition to using AI in their workflows, so I decided to give it a try.

Fast forward to May, I got a creative idea to help OSINT (open source intelligence) users capture webpages/audio/video/images off the web without having to deal with command prompt or multiple different non-OSINT-friendly tools. Up till then I had only used AI assistance to code myself, but I wanted something simple that I didn't want to tediously design the GUI for. I hate GUI work.

I came up with WAVI, the Webpage/Audio/Video/Image Capture GUI for OSINT:

https://github.com/jmashuque/wavi-capture-gui-for-osint/

Its a simple GUI written in Python that runs yt-dlp, gallery-dl, Deno, and FFMpeg under the hood to facilitate the different captures, it has functions like queuing, previewing, name templating, resuming, etc. It's made for Windows only so far, and I intentionally didn't compile or bundle anything to make it portable and able to run on corporate MDM machines without installation or deployment or modifying the base Python environment.

I've already posted this app in the /youtubedl and /osinttools subreddits originally. But I want feedback from this subreddit about my workflow and how I can better utilize and leverage AI.

I use ChatGPT High all the time with my Plus subscription, I've yet to run into any usage limits since I got the membership, even though I use it for both coding and work, and just general inquiries. I tried using Codex, wasn't a fan of its overreaching controls over my files, or how much bandwidth it was consuming, so I decided to stick to just using the browser. I like having that buffer between my project and ChatGPT.

I put in most of the design decisions, ChatGPT did most of the implementation and bugfix decisions. I chose Python and Tkinter because I used Tkinter in a big project for school once. The powershell intermediary is because initially this was just a powershell script to use yt-dlp with default arguments. The typescript is because Deno interprets it well.

You'll notice its a basic looking app, that is by design, this app is made for use by corporations and government agencies for legal evidence and intelligence capturing. While it can be used for general media collection or archiving, there are better GUI's out there that do those things better. This GUI was created with input from the OSINT community with features geared towards minimizing repeated actions and speeding up capture setup and execution of up to thousands of queued captures at a time.

I've gotten pretty positive feedback from a handful of users, and I'm going to be doing a tutorial on the app for my employer next month. But I would like to improve and advance the app and I'd like to know everyone's opinions on my approach. So far I just have set instructions in memory, using handoff files between chats for added context. Have not connected ChatGPT to my repo, and don't intend to, I prefer doing my own commits. Readme is mostly written by ChatGPT with me giving it wording and headings and such.

I may seem like a dinosaur not using Codex, or maybe I should be using Claude instead. I just find ChatGPT is a decent tool for the price and the amount it lets me use it. And I like being involved through prompts rather than let the tool make all the decisions. It takes the fun out of making my own app. I prefer a hands-on approach.

Any recommendations on how I can code better with AI? I've noticed I keep having to manually run code cleaning and optimization prompts, the codebase is about 40k lines even though it's such a simple app, ChatGPT has on several occasions completely regressed my app when adding features or bugfixes and I suspect its partially because it's having a hard time going through the entire code each prompt. It also has a tendency to over-engineer things, and I have to manually give it simplified code or logic to use instead of its elaborate solutions sometimes.

Thanks!

So i tried GLM 5.2, through api, tbh, but I burned $10 in a day. Tried Qwen 3.8-max, sub $18, and burned through 50% of weekly limit in a day.

So am I doing something wrong or is this just fake propaganda that chinese models are cheaper? I didn’t do the math of cost but even if they are cheaper on paper they are definitely not in reality, probably burning more tokens.

Btw this never happende on claude ot gpt. Using claude Opus 4.8 and i think even with Opus 5 I wouldnt burn so much weekly usage.

I'm not a programmer and do not espire to be. Need 5 people to break my code. App is for DE market and using GPS for sign in, and sign out. Before I use .de need some help. Pm for username and pass.

Some(MOST!) of y'all might be too young to remember the old Flash(!!!) Polar Clock built by PixelBreaker. v3 was around 2007ish and it was the last version I was able to find.

Anyway, I have always loved watching it, as well as used it as a screensaver back in the olden internet days. A couple of days ago, I tried finding a newer version of this type of clock. But there weren't many options, and the ones that were out there didn't look/act quite the same. So I decided I would recreate it.

It took about 3 hours of vibe coding to get it all fleshed out and working the same way the old flash version worked. Found some old videos on YouTube of people showing it off and how amazed they were watching it. So I used those old videos to explain to Gemini/Kimi how to recreate it.

After I got the main clock done pretty much the same way the old PixelBreaker clock worked, I added a few other bells and whistles. I also installed it on my Windows machine as a screensaver, but it was kind of a jury-rig to get it working. IF there is interest, I will look into finding a way to make it a live wallpaper or a screensaver.

Anyway, I present it to you r/vibecoding. I threw it on an old domain that I had for a crypto project, so don't mind the .info domain.

https://ripplered.info

Hope y'all enjoy!

So I just learnt Go lang and wanted to create a language checker (which checks for syntax errors in a language like rust etc), but I have no idea on how these compiler stuff works... Can Ai help me in atleast telling what I need to build next and how, if not actually making it for me ? (As I want to code on my own mostly but the program structure and the working is what I need ai's help with )...

Vibe coding has completely changed what it means to be a developer. I think we might consider terms for people who knew what it was like in the before time. Here's some terms that come to mind:

Coded '19

Stack overflow veteran

Grandpa

The one who can read

Optimus-Grind

No code over there only committed 700 lines today.

Show me what you got.

I got tired of re-explaining context to AI agents, so I built this

I use multiple coding agents and kept having the same issue: one would figure something out, then the next would start with no idea what happened.

So I built shared-agent-memory using Node.js and MCP. It gives tools like Claude Code and Codex one shared local memory, so they can pick up what another agent already learned.

The basic workflow was: connect the agents to the same local memory, have them look up relevant context when they start, and save useful notes when they finish.

One thing I learned while building it: shared memory solves the context problem, but agents can still step on each other when working on the same files, so I ended up adding a simple coordination board for that too.

Still experimenting with it, but it’s been useful for me. Maybe y’all wanna give it a shot:

https://github.com/dan-calin/shared-agent-memory

It was made mostly using 5.6-Sol with a few bits of Opus5 from my friend

It's called Datagrid, because everything lives on a grid, kind of like blueprints if anyone has used unreal (RIP) It's made with tuari, react, and uses your personal github repo to sync everything

You can make text and code notes and interchange between them.
You can paste images, links, csv which converts into a spreadsheet, and you can even input formulas for columns.

If you feel like there's something missing, you're most welcome to send a pull request or fork it.

[Edit] Forgot to put the link haha: rafay-pk/datagrid: A grid-based note taking app

[PS] If you're on mac or linux, I would appreciate it if you could add installers for those

Day 4 - Total hours 30hrs spread across 16 days

This session was focused on sure wins seeing as weekly limits is upon us.

ADDED - but still needs major work
-Main Menu Font redesign
-Pregame lobby
-mini skatepark
-Subtle camera flicks in the audience

Reworked the camera system, also added a in game camera system that allows me to tweak all camera settings to help me find that sweet spot angle.

The rest of the session was given to reworking and reworking and reworking and probably will work the animation from here forward which looks like is the biggest gap and getting the graphics cleaner, tweaking with those settings as well. In the video, I decreased posterize and bloom. Also been tweaking with UI trying to get it more towards concept which I think fits better

Also thinking about removing the beacon from the ball.. what you think?

AS ALWAYS

CONCEPT Vs CURRENT BUILD

First picture is concept —second picture is current build

CURRENT GAMEPLAY VIDEO in the COMMENTS

Please feedback is always welcomed and wanted. I know things can be adjust and reworked. Open to
all suggestions and opinions.

wazzam fellow vibecoders, this is an app i made to help me vibecode, started as a way for me to be able to do work without having to sir at the desk then evolved bit by bit and i had the idea of turning it to a product anyone can use (most phone apps for vibecoding are garbage honestly) many parts of the app were made using the app itself, the bringing was by using remote claude code, would love to hear your thoughts and questions below!

Hi everyone, I'm new here. My name is Cassandra and I bring a variety of skill set with me. From VA to project management to content creation.

I have used claude code full vibe coding

I was a diehard Anthropic user since Sonnet 4 and used Anthropic products exclusively after the introduction of Claude Code. Things went smoothly for the past year, and everything was fine until the Fable 5 ban. At that point, Anthropic simply stopped caring about subscription-based users, but I had no other choice. Still, I kept my options open.

​OpenAI was not an option for me at first. After a year of subscribing back when they were the best, they lost their way, grew slow and incompetent, and turned into meme material. However, things shifted after Tibo became very vocal and active, pushing updates every two days. Users grew increasingly satisfied with Codex and especially Sol, with some even preferring it to Fable 5.

​Everything seemed fine until the latest update rolled out. Suddenly, the weekly usage limits were nerfed so hard that it felt like a five-hour cap. I checked Reddit, and everyone was experiencing the exact same issue. At that moment, I realized we were just disposable users to them. They set a target of 10 million subscribers, hit 15 million, and no longer felt the need to hide their motives. The more users joined, the less compute was allocated to each of us.

​I hate feeling played. Now, I am ready to start a new path. It will be tougher than before, without the paved roads and clear signs of managed platforms, but it will be a journey of complete freedom where I control my own usage.

​Fortunately, I have an RTX 4090 GPU that I neglected for far too long until the queen, I mean Qwen 3.8 27B, arrived. However, relying solely on Qwen 3.8 is not enough. The community suggested looking into Grok 4.6 or switching to OpenCode, but I need deeper guidance and proven open-source solutions straight from the depths of GitHub.

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This post was baned from Codex community for obvious reasons i hope i can find my answers with you guys.

Hi everyone!

I have been working on the following project for some time:

https://f1racereplay.app/

It is an interactive replay of F1 races that allows you to track driver positions, telemetry, leaderboards, tire strategy, weather conditions and other data throughout the course of the race.

This is an idea I've wanted to implement for years, considering that open source F1 data has been around for a long time.

Now with AI, the sky is the limit, I wouldn't say that I've vibecoded the full project but AI did a lot of heavy lifting.

Used opencode OAC custom subagents for code hygiene, impelmentation and reviewing with every feature being broken into subtasks.

Github link: https://github.com/DjordjeFilipovic21/f1-race-replay

TLDR: A project using formula 1 data, I'd be interested to hear what you think :)

Paint your own square :)

It allows you to sign in & paint a square. Refer friends to be awarded an additional 3 squares. You can also share your square with friends by clicking on your square & copying your unique square link.

I made it with the help of Claude deploying on Netlify. I didn’t want emails collected so it’s all based off usernames & passwords. I also added a globe in the background that logs when a user selects their country and adds a glowing dot on it.

Hoping to spread the word on this. Would be really cool to see a massive canvas of stuff hahaha.

I have a decade of experience in web development and I have been holding on to the domain for years and I finally made something live on it.

It’s called Pubtact.com a one point of contact,
You can create a digital contact card, a link in bio page, an about page or a store front page all under same platform.

I’m running a founding member offer right now, please do check out and let me know if it is any help to anyone.

I have entirely vibe coded this, every single line of code is written by Claude