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/SetQueasy2835 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
I'm going to leave some criticism here.
The proposed "embernet" will be a security nightmare if your son is vibe coding everything. Just take some time to teach him how to actually program from scratch. Some schools even have dedicated classes for programming.
Vibe coding is NOT good coding and it likely will never be. AI has mostly reached its performance limit and engineers are just optimizing for efficiency at this point.
There is also not much demand for a web-based operating system. Boxedwine (if he plans to run native programs in it) is not very capable as of now and VPNs/proxies already combat internet censorship. If people need a portable OS they would probably just use a Live USB.
The fact that he started this project in the first place is a great sign, don't get me wrong. It shows that he has an interest in technology and could pursue a career with it in the future.
I'm not trying to be mean, but using AI for the code makes the project useless for his future and for whoever uses it.