What was the very first project you vibecoded with AI?
On Product Hunt, I can see many people launching their products using "vibe-coding tools" like @Lovable , @bolt.new , or@Replit
I reckon many people who created something with them are usually developers who didn't have enough time for building a side idea before, but with AI, they could make it happen.
I am not very technical (know some coding/programming basics), but without the help of a tutorial or ChatGPT, I would hardly build a whole project.
Question not only for developers (but also tech newbies):
What was THE FIRST THING YOU VIBECODED?
Feel free to share the link or the picture
What tool did you use?
What was the most difficult part?
Did you earn any money with that?
Here is mine:
– It was supposed to be a directory of Bluesky tools– The most difficult parts were to define something + It also rewrote good parts of the code, so it was kind of a mess for me.
– I haven't earned any money because I haven't published the project. (I abandoned it. :D)
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Atlas
Mine was a meme generator! I post a lot on LinkedIn and I love using memes. So, when I compose one, I ask Claude to recommend about 10 memes. I read through, if I don't know what a meme looks like, i have to look it up. I finally decide on a meme suggestion, look it up on https://imgflip.com/ - type in the funny line, then download it... it's just a little bit tedious and I wanted the app to give me several image recommendations with the funny line already on there so all I had to do was download.
So, this project was built because of an internal hackathon. I was teamed up with @kyle_anne - we used @Replit and @Claude by Anthropic to help us write better prompts.
The purpose of our hackathon was to hook up our own product, @Atlas, in there to monetize our vibe coded project - to see how easy/hard it was. WOW... it took us over half the time to try and get pricing and billing in there. Monetizing it was HARD. Needless to say, we didn't make money off of it.
It's why we pivoted and launched an easier model a few weeks ago for the June 11th launch. It should be much easier now to integrate. @busmark_w_nika wanna try it with your app?
p.s. I didn't intend to plug our product in here. I just re-read your post and saw your prompt about making money. 😇
cc: @michaelthoy @smith_at_atlas @heyalper @clayminer
@kyle_anne @michaelthoy @smith_at_atlas @heyalper @clayminer @laura_cruickshanks MEME generator – it is enough to mention this one word and I am all yours :D But when it comes to trying it: Do I need to have any app? Because app I am collaborating with is not intended to integrate to something (it is a digital detox app).
Atlas
@busmark_w_nika you can try any app that you want to make money with!! do you want to sync up with the team to see what your needs might be? i'd love to work with you!
@laura_cruickshanks But does the app have to be developed by myself? Because at the moment, I do not have any app :D
Atlas
@busmark_w_nika oh, i see what you're saying. yes, you have to build something. it can be a simple prototype using @Lovable @Windsurf @Replit and then you plug and play!
Atlas
@busmark_w_nika @laura_cruickshanks Hah, I think the Meme Generator was my first vibe coded project as well. I'd used AI for coding tasks before, but not to build something new from the ground up.
Atlas
@kyle_anne @busmark_w_nika @michaelthoy @heyalper @clayminer @laura_cruickshanks the first project that I vibe coded was a twitter clone! I wanted to make some hybrid of wiki + twitter where there would be a word of a day, and people would have to make funny videos to define/explain the word! :'-D
@kyle_anne @michaelthoy @heyalper @clayminer @laura_cruickshanks @smith_at_atlas Did you finish it? :D
@busmark_w_nika
I think the biggest myth about vibe-coding is that non-technical people can build and launch full products just by prompting.
In my opinion, these tools work best as extensions for "good enough" engineers who understand the basics, know how to debug, work with databases and can reason about systems. For them (us), tools like Lovable, Cursor and Windsurf e.g. vibe-coding massively speeds things up to build, collect feedback and iterate.
Anything beyond that is mostly hype wrapped in great marketing. Just my 2 cents.
In future things may look different but for now, this is it.
@martyd I share the opinion that when a serious project is supposed to be vibecoded, only under the supervision of a professional because there can be many leaks when newbie is in charge of vibecoding.
Macaly
Trickle
I’ve been exploring a bunch of ideas using Trickle (our AI website builder), and it’s been such a fun creative outlet — here are a few things I’ve built recently:
🗂️ A simple task management site
📄 A resume template site
📸 A wedding photography studio landing page
🎨 A personal portfolio site
🧃 A retro-style landing page for a beverage shop
None of them are perfect, but building them without code felt so rewarding. Trickle helped me get from “idea” to “done” — and now I’m working on improving it for others too 😊
@ninaaaa0913 Wow, you are so effective. OKay, now, I can hide with my almost done one project :D
Trickle
@busmark_w_nika Haha you’re hilarious 😂 Love your energy!
@ninaaaa0913 Thank you! :D
You're not alone @busmark_w_nika, imho that "vibe coding" trend is just another fancy way to make non-developers waste time!
Ai is becoming the biggest trap of our present time and it doesn't look brighter in the future.
Experienced developers may love it, because it saves them time (and/or money to pay junior devs to make the annoying work), however in the end it always require a lot of technical knowledge to launch any project in a safe and effective way.
@terabitcoins Do you use those services to vibe code too? Or are you OG old-school? :)
@busmark_w_nika I tried some of them. And yes, I'm old... school! ;)
@terabitcoins Old school is the best <3
Velocity
@terabitcoins @busmark_w_nika I think it depends what sort of non developer you are talking about ; ) I'm a product designer and I use AI tools to help me prototype ideas fast and its been a game changer for me.
Atlas
Dadlines.lol
Built with @Lovable - Vibe Priced with @Atlas
Next up - building an allowance app for my kids where they can divvy out their earnings between the Bank of Hoy, investments and charity.
@michaelthoy I love how you teach your kids financial management at an early age. I would wish to have you as a parent! :D
Atlas
@michaelthoy @busmark_w_nika credit to @smith_at_atlas for dadlines too!
@5harath Is it like a "directory" for meetings?
@5harath I just signed up for the priority access! Would love to follow the journey here. - Tyler!
Haimeta
My first vibe coding project was an item management app because I had too many things and often forgot what I already owned. Using Windsurf and Cursor, I built a basic iOS app in about two weeks. The interface was super simple, but I never figured out how to publish it on the App Store. So, the project files are still lying on my computer, haha.
@gin_6078 I think that when you are publishing something in the App Store, you need to pay a fee.
Haimeta
@busmark_w_nika Yes, independent developers on the App Store need to pay an annual fee of around $100.
pickleball scoring app!
still yet to launch! i just have the code
@purvamjoshi At first, I had to look up the term "pickleball" :D Do you have any potential users?
@busmark_w_nika it is the fastest growing sport! and community is so big in US/India! clubs and courts are always full so yaa! i can approach clubs as potential pilot users
@purvamjoshi Yeah, some betting forums related to sport as well :D
I created this yesterday, for just over 4 hours. 🚀 Type Invaders – The Fun Way for Kids to Learn Typing
A space-themed typing game where players must type falling words to destroy them before they reach the bottom of the screen.
🎯 It’s not just a game — it’s typing practice in disguise.
https://www.typeinvaders.space
Let me know what you think?
@ajbatac Just testing it and love it! More games like this + also in different languages for learning :D
@busmark_w_nika thanks for trying :) I've updated it again today.
@ajbatac Thank you for creating such a fun game! :)
@chris_chapin So basically, do you learn to code, right? :) I am also on the same page.
UXDesigner.top
After a few experiments and personal mini-projects, the first real thing I vibecoded was LovablePrompts.app, a tool that turns rough product ideas into optimized prompts you can build with right away in Lovable. It even suggests new features to improve your concept.
I built it in just a few days using Lovable itself, Cursor and Open AI for prompt generation. No traditional code, just vibes and fast iteration.
The hardest part? Probably keeping things simple, I had to resist the temptation to add too much too soon. But it paid off: the feedback has been amazing, and I’ve actually already made money with it — a company reached out to sponsor the tool. Not bad for a weekend project! 😉
@david_martin_suarez I built a similar thing using Base44 I called ProductGuru. It walks you through a series of questions to help clarify your product idea, and then generates a robust prompt to copy/paste into an app builder. https://app--product-guru-32be2fa0.base44.app
UXDesigner.top
@thomascdaly Just checked it out — looks great! 🔥 Have you tried using the generated prompts across different platforms like Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor? Curious to know if they work equally well everywhere.
@david_martin_suarez I was messing up with the basic site for almost 2 months, and the guy had a weekend project. 😂 But cool, I appreciate that. I suppose you have a tech background :)
UXDesigner.top
@busmark_w_nika Haha I get that! To be fair, I’m not a developer either, but I’ve built quite a few digital products before, so I’ve picked up some tricks along the way :)
QuickAgent
I built @QuickAgent on Lovable and am very impressed by Lovable in doing so! It’s my first time using it and truthfully my mind was blown. I am also entirely self-taught as a developer and actually built my $1M ARR app on Bubble - so I don’t have an extensive technical background but I’ve learned over time.
I think it will be nearly impossible to stay longterm building solely on Lovable unfortunately - at least in its current state.
The more time I spent on Lovable, the more breaking changes AI made and sudden massive design changes that I didn’t consent to.
If you want to build longterm, you need a reliable source of truth to build upon without massive changes to the code occurring with every small update. Of course they thought of this, and that’s why they sync to GitHub (which is fantastic).
Building longterm on lovable without knowing how to dive into the code yourself and put things together could become a nightmare. I also knew the right kinds of questions to ask to get it to work exactly as I wanted given my experience building apps.
All that being said - I will absolutely be staying as a paying user on Lovable. It’s incredibly valuable as an AI assistant and spins out MVPs ultra fast. It also does more things right than it does wrong :)
@jacobseeger Did you build it during the past weekend when they had a promo? (They had tokens for free for the whole weekend to build things) :-)
QuickAgent
@busmark_w_nika yes I did!! And I entered into the Hackathon with it :)
@jacobseeger I think I didn't catch that, but who won it? :D
@jacobseeger Would you mind sharing how you build the video on the homepage? Love the look of that!
QuickAgent
@vxlabs Of course! I made it with @Screen Studio :)
Hi there 👋
I vibecoded this small SaaS https://prompt-manager.com
It's a tool to store your prompts and add tags to them so you can easily find and reuse them.
I used WindSurf to vibecode it.
The most difficult part was fixing a bug related to communicating with the Stripe API.
For now, I earn the huge amount of $0 😁
Thanks for reading :)
@gduale And do you have any strategy to market it? :)
@busmark_w_nika yes, I posted here ;)
Not really in fact...
I'm not very good at marketing, more skills in computer in general :)
I also posted it on Hacker News and X (twitter)
Thank you for your interest!
@gduale Who is actually your ideal customer?
@busmark_w_nika Anyone, as long as they find the service useful for them.
I'd say +1 to @busmark_w_nika as I've been wondering the same for quite a while now. Vibe coding is as exciting as it sounds, but the feeling of being stuck on a technicality hinders the creativity and the very purpose of building with a vibe-coding rush! Can't wait to read more on this thread.
@sanskarix If you have any vibe-coded project – feel free to share.
I use Claude agent for generating code and able to launch things much faster than it used to be. Recently launched two new projects.
ZenTutor.pro Initially created for my friend who is a tutor and was able to manage the tutoring effectively online manually so wanted an app where students can enroll for different lessons and can track the payments and allow paid students attend the calls, also ability to sell video only courses. He liked the product so much and gave an idea to make it a product hence launched here. The second product I have launched was
ThumbGenieAI.com This came out of my own use case as I write blog posts time to time used to spend more time to create suitable featured posts and wanted to comeup with one click solution to generate feature images for my blog posts. Thumb Genie generate images using the blog title and content as input, so the generated image is very unique and more suitable to the blog post.
@msnisha ThumbGenie looks interesting to me (as for a content creator) – do you have any users, or is it just for personal use?
@busmark_w_nika Started months ago, got less than 10 users for now. Expected to grow over time.
@msnisha Wish you luck with scaling :)
Built this directory for my SaaS localpanda.ai in literally a day - https://localpanda.ai/local-seo-tools/
I used Claude entirely to do this
@dhruv_bhatia Did you put those tools on your own there, or reached out to the makers? :)
@busmark_w_nika oops just saw this question. I put them on my own...
@dhruv_bhatia It is okay, no worries :D at least I know you are not a bot :D
@busmark_w_nika hahaha def am not :)
My first ever was a VTU application which I later took down the site for some reason I can't discuss, my official product which was my first lunch on Product hunt vibe coded using vercel's V0 was Vistatrack . And next was lots of other tools that I personally used but now I've complied them all in one tool platform that I just lunched today (also vibe coded) ToolRackly . I used to think the difficult part was the bug-crushing and development but I was wrong, marketing to get your first paying user is still currently the most difficult part.
@affectionate_code Have you monetised them?
@busmark_w_nika Yes, I’ve monetized them in different ways.
VistaTrack uses a subscription-based model, while ToolRackly runs on a point-based system — users can access premium tools using points. Still working on growing the user base, though. Marketing on a $0 budget has been the real grind!.
@eliza_pogorilska I understand it like writing the code by prompting :D it is my definition tho :D
I built my apps with @Lovable and@Vercel at the start, then when I saw the price was a costly monthly subscription as a freelancer, I decided to move to a Desktop app@Dyad All I had to do was get my API from Google Studio or Gemini and add it to the Dyad app, it's prefect, I would recommended it. I did many apps on @Dyad , this one of the recent apps SocialGet
@jalalnasser what does your project do?
Hi Everyone, I submitted it :) and added a leaderboard with some feature enhancements and optimization.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/type-invaders
Thank you for looking!
@ajbatac It is also good for practicing All 10 fingers method :D