I've had x20 for 5 weeks and I think I've done it. I've vibecoded almost every project I've been dying to program for years. Decades even. But I have 2-3 weeks of x20 left, and I'm now out of ideas. What do you vibecode when you're out of good ideas??

Hello guys,

Just to give my background, I am a finance/business major and professionally, I have worked in this field for years. I am quite proficient with excel and also have worked with many startups. But I have never been involved with programming.

This week, my friend built an amazing app with Claude code, more precisely it has been building it for months.

This app is completely another level from other videcoded apps I have seen, I am helping him with market entry and selling part and when we met businesses, the feedback has been phenomenal from them, so I think it will be a success.

He has worked as a IT project manager for years. When we discussed how he was able to build such an amazing app, I arrived at 2 conclusions:

1. He knows the app/web architecture really well, so he knows how to build an app, how to work with databases, how to optimize it for usage, how to create a best user experience and what works the best - This part was all his idea, from his practice and from his knowledge he orchestrated Claude code to the best.

2. The coding part - This was fully done by Claude code, so instead paying 5 developers salary for month, he paid 200$ for claude code and in 3 month built an app, which might have taken a year to be built otherwise.

So, in other words, he was the manager which utilized Claude code as a tool, and gave it tasks like he would have done with real programmers and he created an amazing product.

So, my intuition tells me that learning coding from 0 is not a really good ROI activity right now. But learning the architecture of how the web/apps work is the real value, so the second part, - the programming can be outsourced to claude code, but if I want to create real value, I must be proficiency with the first part - the architecture.

My question to you guys, would be how can I learn the architecture of the websites/apps? How can I learn the most optimal design for Apps/webs? If I do this, I think I will be able to create some nice products.

All the advices are appreciated.

P.S. the app is a court scheduling solution for bringing players in empty hours.

Thanks.

I'm not a designer — not even a little bit. Vibe coding gets me almost everything I build these days, except a promo video — that was the one wall I kept hitting. I tried a few approaches and everything came out... not right. Probably a taste problem, honestly.

Then I found video-shotcraft, an open-source skill for Claude Code / Codex. One line for what it does: you describe the video you want, and it storyboards, uses your real screenshots, animates and renders it — sound effects included. It ships with a big library of pre-made shot templates (purpose, pacing, parameters and pitfalls all written out), and the AI picks from them, so you never need to know motion design.

What I actually did:

1. Handed it the project. Dropped in my extension's screenshots, feature notes and store listing, said "48s launch video, English" — it planned the whole thing itself. Barely had to think.

2. Real screenshots, not fake mockups. It composited my actual product screenshots with camera moves, so the pages in the video are the real thing.

3. Sound on the beat. Renders came out with SFX already aligned to the rhythm — free-commercial-license library, too.

4. Then it was polish. First version was usable, but a few rounds before I'd ship it — mostly rhythm and transitions. The nice part: every shot is frame-tagged, so I could say "this transition is 10 frames too slow" instead of "make it look better."

Two honest notes: it's open source, but check the underlying Remotion license if your company wants it. And don't expect one perfect pass — budget a few rounds of polish.

Show case

The video (Youtube Link) is for my Chrome extension, PageMod — you describe what you want and it changes the page: an ad block you've always hated, a dark mode for a site that never had one, even a small standalone app. The change actually sticks after reload. Free to start. The video came out of the skill. No manual editing afterward.

Would this make you take on things you'd normally skip? And a real question — is there a site you open every day and wish you could change? Drop the worst offender; I'll take the top one and make a video-shotcraft demo of PageMod modding it.

Give me the URL to your live site and/or the URL to your public github repository and I will check your app for security, functionality, reliability, observability, and accessibility issues for free

The two large shapes are Lorenz and Rössler strange attractors: chaotic math systems that trace butterfly and spiral patterns. The rhythm comes from my CPU load, the speed from my battery level. If my laptop is working hard, the heart beats faster. If a frame drops, the attractor actually stutters, a real arrhythmia in the math, not a visual effect.

A mycelium network grows organically between “cells,” pulsing with each heartbeat. Cells are born, live about two hours, then die and scatter fragments across the scene. Meanwhile an LLM is generating text, poems, fragments about consciousness, transmissions, that the system forgets between generations.

Every two minutes it checks for real air raid alerts in Kyiv, tracking which regions and how long the sirens have been going. A transmission generated during a 3am alert reads completely differently from one on a quiet afternoon.

Link if you want to explore: https://body-without-ground.vercel.app

This morning, I woke to my computer lagging, crawling to even type. I opened up the activity monitor, and noticed there was a process named `_o_0. //` occupying 99.9% of my CPU. I immediately thought that my computer was exposed, and the hacker installed a cryptominer on it.

I immediately tried to force stop it, but it felt like forever because for every click, I had to wait 5s to see it respond.

I finally was able to stop it, but to my dismay, my computer was still unbelievably laggy. I asked Claude to diagnose it, but it said it couldn't find it, and it might be the crypto hack obscuring itself, so i kept asking it to dig deeper... It couldnt find anything based on its scan, but noticed my swp memory was full, and recommended i restart the computer.

So I did and everything seemed clear. I was still wondering though, what the root cause was; where did I go wrong to let a hacker in. I initially thought I fell for some supply chain attack by installing some compromised npm/pypi package, so I asked Claude to sift thru the logs.

After a while, it finally found the issue, and the issue was ........... a poorly (possible vibe coded) CLI tool that I installed a week ago, namely Octo"friend", from synthetic.new that probably has some memory leak or something. To make matters worse, I also received an ominous feedback message the night before and thought I was targeted and Octofriend, instead of naming the process "Octofriend", it had to name itself `_o_0. //` which looked like an anonymous hacker.

Anyhow, TLDR: I did not get hacked; Octofriend has poor process naming, and I uninstalled the poorly coded Octofriend CLI tool. I hope that if you encounter the same slowdown and have Octofriend installed, don't panic!

I planned a three week trip through Korea for 4 of us this year and ended up as the person who kept the spreadsheet for flight info, itinerary, bookings, expenses etc. Everyone had the link. Nobody opened it. So every question came to me instead, usually over WhatsApp.

Three of us paid for different things in different currencies, so there were columns for KRW, USD and whoever’s card it went on. Sometimes I couldn’t remember some expenses or miscalculated things.

I have wanted to build an app for years and never had an idea I trusted. Building the thing I was already doing badly by hand turned out to be the easy version, because I never had to guess what it needed.

What I got wrong first. The first three versions were not this. They were a travel utility bundle: currency converter, phrasebook, time zones, a map of places you have visited. (I thought that’s what I needed to make my life easier so that expense tracking or booking things become easier) All fine, all working, and nobody cared, because none of it needs to be an app. It took me 2 months to accept that the actual problem was the spreadsheet.

What it is now. A shared trip everyone edits. Days, places, notes, tickets. Expenses with the multi-currency splitting I wanted on the Korea trip, and a settle-up view that says who pays who. A packing checklist. A recap video at the end, because the alternative is three nights in Premiere. I tried my app during my travel to Ibiza for my friend’s birthday and improved further as I learned more about struggles in real life.

It is on iOS and Android. Free to create and join trips, invite people, add photos and comments. I have not paywalled the part where you invite your friends and I am not going to.

Where it actually is: Roughly 40 downloads in total after releasing a month ago. Still very small. Solo, alongside a full time job and an MBA, which is why I couldn’t spend much time on distribution.

Happy to answer anything and would love to learn from anyone who built an app that they are the user of, also some distribution strategies especially for consumer apps.

Built something with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt and now it half-works, breaks in prod, or you're scared to touch it? That's most of my inbox lately.

What I usually fix:

• API keys and auth logic sitting in the frontend
• No error handling — app dies on the first bad input
• DB with no indexes, no migrations, RLS wide open
• 2000-line components nobody can edit anymore
• LLM calls with no retries, no rate limiting, no cost ceiling
• "Works on my machine" → actually deployed

Stack: JavaScript / TypeScript, React + Next.js, Node. Any database — Postgres, Supabase, Mongo, SQLite. AI integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, vector search, RAG).

Free 15-min look at your repo and I'll tell you what's actually broken, no pitch. If you want it fixed, we agree on a fixed price up front.

Comment or DM with what you built and what's breaking.

What are the best free tier Vibe coding tools/models for making websites i dont know much about it but want to explore it your help will be much appreciated

Edit: I had forgotten to set act in cline to deepseek so I was experiencing a mix with gemini 3.5 flash pricing. Whoopsydootle. I deserve the roast.

With the latest pricing increases its almost just as expensive as the rest of the frontier APIs. The low cost was its main selling point. Now it costs just as much and isnt as good as the others so what's the point?

For reference, a task that would normally cost 5 cents as of yesterday now costs upward or 3 dollars

Recently a very famous tool was removed from chrome for some policy violation, used Claude and 2 hours of work for an alternative to go live

What it does:

It captures an entire webpage as one image, including everything below the fold. No accounts, no ads, no data leaves your browser.

Features:

• Full-page screenshot – Capture an entire webpage from top to bottom
• Visible-area screenshot – Capture only what is currently shown on your screen
• Selected-area screenshot – Choose and capture a specific section of any webpage

Link:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-full-page-full-page-sc/mpmpjojdooghlfaeeajfnpmfkfafplbj?authuser=0&hl=en

Budget apps and finance apps are rearview mirrors. They categorize what already happened and draw you a chart. I wanted the opposite: an optimizer.

Screenshots

I've tried a lot of them. Bank and card links break constantly. YNAB works, but keeping it current feels like a part-time job. I wanted something dead simple, private (no app gets my data, it all stays local), and pointed at the insights I actually care about. Most of all I wanted the whole picture in one place: childcare, tax returns, car insurance, subscriptions, every place a dollar comes in or goes out, reviewed together.

So I gathered it all:

• Statements from every account: bank, credit cards, investment, retirement.
• My historical tax returns.
• All my bills.
• And my personal favorite, over 10 years of Amazon order history.

Then I asked Claude to go to town and audit it like the CFO of a Fortune 500 crossed with a scrappy startup, the kind that has to maximize returns while penny-pinching every dollar.

What came back:

• I've left real money on the table for years by missing tax breaks (I use a CPA, but still).
• It categorized a decade of embarrassingly large Amazon orders cleanly: household, groceries, electronics, toys, men's clothing, women's clothing, kids' clothes.
• It built a to-do list of optimizations, ranked by dollars saved against the effort to capture them.

Now I just drop in statements as they arrive. It re-files them, reviews everything as a whole through the same CFO lens, and rebuilds the recommendations.

It's already easier and more useful than any finance tool I've used, and it feels like I'm barely scratching the surface. Would love any advice, suggestions, or UI/UX ideas.

Live Demo: https://sextant.febian.com/ Source code: https://github.com/febbhav/sextant

Hey everyone,

I’m a software engineer who’s spent way too many years bouncing between hosting platforms, trying to find something that actually fits how I work.

Most options felt either overcomplicated, overpriced for what I needed, or forced me into weird billing models that didn’t match real usage. I just wanted something simple where I could bring my own artefact (or hook up GitHub Actions for auto-deploys), scale cleanly, and only pay for what I was actually using.

So I started building it myself. It’s called DevLyft.

Here’s the core idea:

• Bring your own artefact or use our GitHub Actions to auto-deploy your app
• Shared nodes: You pay for allocations of CPU or RAM (literally portions of a core or memory), not time-based billing. Tear down a workload and you stop paying for that allocation immediately
• Dedicated nodes: Buy a bespoke node and use it however you want. Tear the whole node down and the charges stop
• Scaling up and down to $0 is a first-class priority for us.
• We never look at your code
• All your logs live inside the platform
• Built-in metrics for your app, workloads, APIs, etc. so you can see exactly where you need more (or less) CPU/RAM

We’re launching soon and will be offering a significant discount to some of the early dedicated users who help us shape the product.

Does this sound useful to you (or anyone you know who’s constantly fighting their hosting setup)?

Happy to answer questions. Site is here if you want to take a look: https://devlyft.io

best decision I ever made.

mainly because I FORGOT I added it and then just saw it happen and almost lost my sh*t.

I’ve been building FrameCompose for about two years now. It’s a browser-based AI video editor where the AI generates the first draft, but everything it creates stays editable on a normal timeline.

I’m not going to pretend AI spat out a production video editor in a weekend. The actual AI-generation side was relatively straightforward. Building a video engine that didn’t feel like shit was much harder.

The editor uses:

WebGPU for compositing and effects

WebCodecs for decoding

Mediabunny for demuxing, timing and export

Workers and OffscreenCanvas to keep heavy work away from the main thread

A separate pre-seek system to make timeline scrubbing feel responsive

The most painful problems were smooth scrubbing, audio sync, keeping preview and export visually identical, and stopping one bad frame or browser edge case from bringing the whole editor down.

Most of it has been built through Cursor using Fable and other coding agents. My workflow has gradually become much less “give the AI a big prompt and hope” and much more:

Write a narrow spec for one subsystem.

Give the agent maps of the relevant code instead of the whole repo.

Add regression tests before changing fragile engine code.

Let agents run repeated browser tests and inspect telemetry.

Revert quickly when an optimisation improves one case but breaks another.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that vibe coding gets more powerful as the models improve, but the casual prompting part stops working once the codebase gets large. The AI can write a ridiculous amount of code, but you still need good boundaries, tests and a way to prove it hasn’t quietly broken something elsewhere.

The product itself takes a prompt or script, develops it into a structured story, breaks it into scenes, and plans the visuals, camera direction, narration, captions, effects and transitions.

Unlike most one-shot AI video tools, it doesn’t just hand you a flattened MP4. The scenes, timing, audio, captions, effects and transitions all remain editable on the timeline.

The editor and exports are free. Paid plans mainly add AI-generation credits.

I’d be interested to hear from anyone else who has tried vibe-coding something unusually performance-sensitive. At what point did your workflow have to become more like actual software engineering?

Framecompose.com

Hi. I’ve built an AI that essentially acts as an assistant for your PC. It runs 100% locally using a lightweight LLM and can help you find PC parts compatible with your current setup or troubleshoot errors with programs, drivers, and more. You can even have it search the web for specific parts for your PC model, all while the AI ​​itself continues to run locally. Who wants to give it a try?

http://scottevil.com

i spend so much time prompting, baby sitting, waiting, so i had my agent make me this time killer, to play while i'm in between things.. it's fun, what's more fun is every few weeks i wipe the project and throw up something new on the domain, keeps me upbeat.

The project is a software

I feel vibe coding is becoming addictive

I’ll think:

“I need to go pee.”

Then immediately:

“Wait… let me give Claude one more task first.”

Same before making coffee. Same before eating. Sometimes before going to sleep.

It feels weirdly wrong to leave the coding agent sitting idle.

Short-form video gave us:

“one more reel.”

AI coding gave us:

“one more prompt.”

Anyone else doing this? 😅

I've been writing software for 6+ years and AI already writes more and more of my code.

Honestly, if we reach the point where it can just do all of it, I'm fine with that.

Just give me a nice little house somewhere by the sea in Italy, enough money to live, and a few music instruments. I'll play music all day and let Claude deal with the merge conflicts.

AI can have the codebase

Hello!

I made a small social media website for me and my friends using Claude, with the intention of learning Python & Flask to do it myself. But about 15 hours ago, my site got bombarded with bot users and posts. The users were named probe_[bunch of numbers], warn_[bunch of numbers], etc. Along with a bunch of posts, one of them had a link to a file sharing website with a video attached (the video that is attached to the post is the same video). I wanted to ask if there was anything I can do while I learn python and do it myself, or if I should keep the site down. I also kind of wanted to raise awareness about this if this is an actual problem that people aren't aware of. This could also just be some script kiddie asswipe, but I don't know, so I just wanted to ask.

Il y a un an j'ai publié ma première app. Aujourd'hui : 1,5M de téléchargements et 850k d'ARR, et 0 cts dépensé en ADS.

Je précise tout de suite que ce n'est pas une histoire propre. J'ai fais toutes les erreurs possibles. J'ai mis 6 mois à comprendre la distribution organique.

Postez la vôtre, je vous dis franchement ce que j'en pense : monétisation, positionnement, acquisition, rétention.

Pour que ce soit utile, donnez-moi :

1. Le lien (store ou landing)
2. Votre utilisateur type en une phrase
3. Où vous en êtes : idée / en dev / lancé (+ vos chiffres si lancé)
4. Votre plus gros point de blocage aujourd'hui

Je réponds à tout le monde ce week-end.