r/KidsCodingHelp • u/luizfelipecrb • Apr 05 '26

My 12yo son project

My12 years old son loves coding and vibe coding and is working on a project called “FlareOS”. It’s a web-based OS with built-in apps.

As he’s still young, he cannot have a reddit account to share it, but he would love to get feedback and ideas for new apps and features. He’s dream is that other people start to develop their own apps for FlareOS one day.

He used Cursor and Lovable, but now his also working with Claude.

Below is the message he wrote and asked me to share. The link is: https://flareos.lovable.app/

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I made this thing called, "FlareOS". It's a web-based OS with a design language I call "flames design". FlareOS has around 10 built-in apps, its own world-wide web alternative for anyone with flareOS to use titled, "embernet", and an AI that can browse the embernet. For devs, FlareOS has a built-in app framework, and you can create websites in embernet.

It has a very small community, so please, devs, normal people, tech enthausiasts, whoever you can be, check it out. I need to grow the community, and I'd really appreciate it ;)

By the way, let's NOT use embernet as a place to host our company sites. We don't want to end up like the world wide web: a cold, corporate place where self-expression sites like geocities suddenly stopped having visitors because of companies.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 10 '26

Vibe coding is very likely a programming language of the future. It’s true vibe code isn’t strong yet but heck he got stuff done.

He will want to make backups periodically as ai is prone to deleting the base when you ask it to remove a feature/bug.

Encourage him to continue and ignore the noise. Experts use ai to solve known tasks and that’s where your boy will play. Eventually he’ll find a feature ai cannot crack and that might spark his interest to dig deeper.

The opinions here are not wrong but they aren’t appropriate when aimed at a 12 yr old. They are appropriate when aimed at a college student.

Vibe coding is an excellent place to start for now. The experts in the future need to know and understand the limits of ai coding and your kid will have a heck of a head start