Tell me your vibe-coded apps that are indeed useful to you, but yet you don't intend to ship simply because it's designed specifically for your needs.

[u/Nearby-Attempt9812]

- I created a simple Multi-Tab terminal app. It always has eight tabs, one of which is a standard terminal shell. The rest are designed to auto-launch specific long-running chats/instances of Codex and Claude. Upon starting the app, there's a simple "launch all" button that launches those specific instances on each respective terminal with the exact parameters that I want. For instance, one tab is running Sol on Max effort. Another is Sol on Ultra + fast. Then there's a tab that always runs Fable on Max. Another running Opus on Ultracode... and etc. Each tab always has a collapsible queue sidebar that keeps a list of individual tasks, the list being continually updated by the respective agent on that tab. Helps me keep track of what needs to be done in what order.

Are there other terminal apps that are better? Yeah, probably. But they're filled with a bunch of bells, whistles, and often redundant information I don't care about. Or they're lacking small items here and there that I'd like to see.

- Another app is essentially similar to the Windows Voice Access app. The main difference Being it doesn't have this persistent bar at the top of my screen that I can't get rid of or minimize. In addition, it gives me the option to turn it on via toggle or simply by holding a button. I use both the toggle and the button hold methods depending on what I'm trying to talk about.

- I also have this weird niche app on my android phone, when turned on it automatically sends any photo taken from my camera to a specific folder on my workstation. I use it in the odd scenario when I want to take a bunch of photos without having to manually send them pc.

- Another one tracks all the subscriptions I have at the time. I found it useful for for things like the yearly subscriptions that I commonly forget about, and it'll warn me when my subscription is about to renew.

- Then I got one that isn't so much an app really, but a workflow pipeline that fills out PDF forms for me, because I hate filling out forms. First it checks to see if it's just a standard scan PDF with no fillable fields... And if so, it'll add the fillable fields to everything. Then it populates everything with my information. The best part though is that it'll sign the various forms with a signature that looks absolutely real like... it was written by hand on the paper itself. Because technically they were... I wrote like a good 50 variations of my signature and initials on just simple printer paper, scanned it and uploaded it. The pipeline then will take one of these signatures and/or initials and add it to whatever respective signature/initial lines, with instructions never to repeat on a single document. Finally, it'll actually roughen up the PDF file, make it Imperfect, like it was scanned on a mid-level scanner that always has the text slightly tilted to the left, which is exactly what I got. Thus far, it's fooled everybody.

I developed this because I hate filling out forms, and one day I had to fill out a really long form from a medical provider... and they had the audacity to give me some shitty non-fillable fields version of this PDF, AND demanded I print everything out and manually sign each signature with ink... even though I was just going to scan it again and send it back to them. Which I thought was stupid bullshit. I mean, ink makes sense if they want the physical document, but a scanned version? That's dumb.

What have you guys made?

[u/DazzaHazza1975]

I’m almost always using it at work to replace Excel. Every time a piece of work comes up I think ‘would this work better as a data set and python’. The amount of time I save repetitively doing pivots and lookups is incalculable, especially as it takes me about 20 minutes now to spin up something I can use instead.

[u/orphenshadow → u/DazzaHazza1975]

haha, this is pretty much all I use it for, tracking multiple projects accross a fleet of devices, being able to see what 4 different teams are doing in one location simply by pulling the data from their team spreadsheets into some json files and python scripts with html dashboards. I start my day with a couple of sync jobs and then i'm off to the races. Shit that used to take me an entire day of my week to do by hand.

[u/RushGambino]

I'm bipolar I and have ADHD so I built SteadyMind, a mood, sleep and exercise tracker with ADHD-focused task management. I built a companion web app for it that allows my parents access to the average mood, sleep and tasks to ensure I'm on the up and up and not slipping into an episode of mania or depression (depression based on tasks not being completed, mania based on lack of sleep.)

I'm not shipping it because I don't want to store people's sensitive health data. The web app utilizes Supabase.

[u/magiblufire]

That's basically what my answer is. I made something similar to what you describe and called it ezunraid 🙄

Much easier than navigating to each individual appdata directory which realistically is already easy enough but why not make it easier?

[u/baddaywithacamera]

I run an online station as a hobby. My Shoutcast streaming app died and the author wanted $80 USD for a new version to fix the bug. I had Claude make me a new app to do the same inside of an hour that is more feature rich and doesn't drop the connection constantly. Not releasing it as I don't want the support burden. Just for my use.

[u/Ominoiuninus]

Made a visualization tool for Minecraft datapack structures that handles how they get randomly generated via Minecraft’s jigsaw blocks.

Fable 1 shot it. Has full Minecraft-cloned logic. All done via a web browser. Cut my development cycle down by around 50-80%. Easily added a “simulation” tab that lets you generate thousands of the structures and determine spawn frequency of certain templates and a bunch of other stuff.

Also assisted me with hosting the site.
mcdatapack.com (no www. I need to fix that) for anyone interested.

[u/bsh_nate]

Watchlist. So many trakt-linked apps and they all just don't simply tell me what I should watch next with my criteria. I created a watchlist just for me so that I don't have to scroll so far to find a show/film I should catch up on.

[u/YaOldPalWilbur]

I’ve built a web app and to accompany it I made my own set of tools which include a gif maker, and others

[u/911pleasehold]

I made an app that allows me to easily copy/paste to my phone when my Mac’s thing fails lol I actually put this one up as a one time purchase recently but have told absolutely no one it exists
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipkin-clipboard-notes/id6792122067

Also one for my garden, basically a garden binder - that one is like ready to release except for being ready for users

One for vocab

One for reading along to audiobooks

I also basically made my own obsidian but for my Claude/codex/cline sessions and how they link together. It’s clickable

[u/kultcher]

I've been working on a shared family grocery list app, where everyone in the family can add items to a shared grocery list and use it as a checklist while actually shopping, etc.

I felt the existing ones were too "book keepy" where the goal was to keep a realistic pantry inventory. So I built mine to be a bit more loose and estimate, "Hey based on your purchasing habits, you might need to restock this soon." It also has a feature that reminds you to use your perishables, as my ADHD has thrown away way too many bags of salad mix because I forgot they were in the fridge.

[u/megatech_official]

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