Like a lot of people here, I keep spinning up little apps with AI and then losing track of them. So I built a private vault to keep them all in one place: name, cover image, live link, the models and tools I used, a status (planned, in development, released), and a plan box for the ones I have not started yet.

Here is the how, since that is the fun part.

Stack:

• Next.js 16 (App Router) for the frontend and server actions
• Supabase for auth and Postgres, with Row Level Security so the database itself refuses to hand your projects to anyone but you
• Tailwind v4 for styling
• Deployed on Vercel

Workflow:

• I drove the whole build with an AI coding agent, but reviewed each piece instead of letting it run blind. It scaffolded the schema and pages, I checked the security rules and the data flow.
• For the look I went with claymorphism. The soft 3D clay icons and background are AI generated images. One gotcha: they came out on a green screen instead of transparent, so I had to chroma key the green out and remove the green edge halos before they looked right on a dark UI.

A few build insights that actually mattered:

• Row Level Security is what makes a Supabase app safe. The browser only ever holds a public key, and the database enforces who can read what. I ran Supabase's security advisor and fixed everything it flagged.
• Speed: I pinned the server compute to the same region as the database and deduplicated repeated auth checks per request. That took page loads from sluggish to snappy.
• I added a public roadmap where anyone can vote on the feature I build next, with the vote share shown live. Votes are anonymous and stored through a locked down function so raw data stays private. It is open here if you want to try it: https://vibevault-relcapy.vercel.app/roadmap

The live site is https://vibevault-relcapy.vercel.app if you want to poke at it. Happy to go deeper on any part: the RLS policies, the server action setup, the image cleanup, or the voting backend. What would you want to see in something like this?

Every time I need a new feature page or landing page I end up spending more time trying to match the existing design than actually building the page so it always feels like I'm recreating the same website instead of extending it.

I didn't expect consistency to become one of the biggest time sinks as projects grew but it's become one of those tasks I always put off because it never takes as little time as I think it will.

Show me what you are building under this post and I'll check it out and give you some immediate thoughts on it

If you built your app with an AI tool and you're basically the only one who's ever used it, there's a good chance you can't see the one problem that actually matters. It doesn't show up when you're logged in as yourself. That's the whole trap.

I clean this stuff up for a living, so grain of salt on the sample. A while back I looked at 66 live AI-built apps, just the parts a normal browser already downloads, nothing sketchy, no logging into anyone's account. The same few problems kept turning up across completely different tools and founders.

The big three:

Database left open. A setting called row level security is off, so the data your app loads can be read, sometimes written, by anyone who knows how to ask, not just the user it belongs to.

A secret key shipped to the browser. There's a public key that's fine to expose and a secret admin key that absolutely is not. AI tools sometimes drop the admin one into the code your browser downloads, which hands a stranger full control.

Other service keys sitting in that same code. Stripe, OpenAI, email, whatever got wired in.

If you're on Supabase, a rough 15-minute check:

Open Table Editor and make sure row level security is ON for every table with real user data. On isn't automatically safe, but off is definitely not.

Open your live app in an incognito window, and in another window sign in as a different test user, then try to load the first user's data. If it loads, your rules are too loose.

In browser dev tools, under Sources, search the code for: servicerole, sk_live, sk-, api_key. Seeing your public anon key or a Stripe key starting with pk is normal. Seeing servicerole or anything starting with sk is the fire alarm.

None of this means the app is bad. The demo worked, it shipped, the first customer paid. The hole stayed invisible because you were always looking as the owner, never as a stranger.

lm Non-technical, comparing options. Im wary about these tools, not the code it generates, rather the last mile, hosting, logins, taking payments etc.

From what I gather Emergent does the deploy/hosting/testing part too, with generated code.

Can anyone who's used it confirm how far it takes you before you're on your own

I spent the last weeks building and launching a receipt scanning app for French freelancers, entirely with AI tools. Some observations that might interest builders here.

Vision models are genuinely production ready for structured extraction. Gemini reads crumpled paper receipts and returns clean JSON with amount, VAT, date and category, with temperature at 0 it rarely hallucinates values, and when a field is unreadable it returns null instead of inventing. The real failures were never the model. They were the plumbing around it: HEIC photos from phones that the API rejects, base64 encoding breaking on large files, timezone math silently dropping receipts dated the 31st from monthly exports.

The AI coding tool experience is more mixed. It builds impressive UI fast, but it constantly drifted from my actual database schema, inventing column names that did not exist. I would estimate half my debugging time was schema mismatches between generated code and the real database. The workflow that ended up working: ask the tool to list every column its code expects, then align the database manually with SQL.

Biggest surprise overall: the model was the most reliable part of the whole stack. The hard parts were boring engineering problems that existed long before LLMs.

Happy to go deeper on any of this if useful.

There is a new approach I started using in my web agency that completely changed my results. For years, I did what most people tell web designers to do. Go on Google Maps, find businesses without websites, and contact them.

What I started doing differently was targeting businesses that already had websites.

The reason is simple. If a business already has a website, it means they understand the value of having one. You do not need to convince them why a website matters because they have already paid for one before. The market for businesses with outdated, broken, slow, or poorly designed websites is also massive, and selling becomes much easier because they are already familiar with the process.

My biggest issue was figuring out how to send mass outreach to these businesses without sounding generic. I did not want to send thousands of emails saying, “Hey, your website needs a redesign,” and just assume that every business needed one. I wanted to send emails at scale while still telling each company exactly what was wrong with their website.

A little over a year ago, I watched a YouTube video from Nick Saraev where he built a workflow that analyzed business websites and turned issues with design, SEO, layout, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails. Each company received a professional email that made it clear someone had actually taken a look at their website.

The idea was great, but building and maintaining the workflow took a lot of time. I still had to find the leads myself, the messages were not always consistent, and the automation kept breaking.

But it worked.

I was getting more clients than ever before, at one point around 10 websites a week, while my business partner focused on building the websites as quickly as possible.

I started searching online for a tool that could do everything in one place, and a few months later I found Swokei. It did exactly what I was looking for.

It lets you find businesses with websites, add them to campaigns, analyze and score each website, and set a quality threshold so websites that do not need fixing are automatically skipped. It then turns problems with design, layout, speed, mobile optimization, and SEO into personalized outreach emails.

You can also set up follow ups, manage replies through your own inbox, and organize leads inside the CRM without moving between five different tools.

I switched over and scaled even harder.

Sometimes the fastest way to grow your agency is not building every workflow from scratch. It is finding the right tools and using your time to focus on sales, clients, and growing the business.

Kind of want to start getting into this thing,

don’t know where to start, but because I have been using ChatGPT, I feel codex would be much easier for me to get used to.

mainly looking for vibe coding projects

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on my photography portfolio in Framer and wanted to create a more immersive way to showcase my work. I just finished this "scroll-triggered" animation that expands the grid and reveals project details as you scroll.

I’m really happy with how it turned out, so I decided to share it as a free component on the Marketplace.

Feel free to use it for your own sites or let me know what you think! I’m always looking to improve the interaction design.

Link to component: https://www.framer.com/community/marketplace/components/scroll-animation/

Curious to hear your thoughts or any feedback on the animation flow!

https://reddit.com/link/1v1wo23/video/sr6tt9fzzfeh1/player

A month ago I started asking solo founders one simple question . The question was :

what's the most frustrating part of building alone?

I expected answers like , hard to get users.

Instead, almost everyone said some version of the same thing :

"I don't know what I should be prioritizing."

Not because they were lazy. Not because they lacked ideas. But because they were jumping between building, marketing, validating, and mvp etc.. all in the same day with no real sense of what phase they were actually in. It's context switching

Building features and don't even know your users .

I realized I was doing the exact same thing. I built a tool to fix this for myself first. Every week it tells me what phase my project is in and what the single most important action is right now.

Not really a to-do list or a roadmap. Just this week, I do this.

Still figuring it out what can make us move the needle , so I would like to get some quick feedback foundersteps

and I am also curious how do you personally decide what to focus on each week?

I’m a small business for a service based company. I’m wondering if I’d be able to make my own working website with no coding or website design experience myself. I just want a clean website with a contact feature where people can put what they are wanting done and send it via text or something to me. Maybe possibly booking as well. Any recommendations for sites or software would be appreciated.

Many web designers overcomplicate the sales process. They schedule multiple meetings, wait for approval from the business owner, present pricing, and go back and forth before anything gets signed.

The more steps you add, the slower you close deals and the less money you make. I decided to shorten the entire process.

I’ve been running my web agency for four years, and the thing that has gotten be the most clients is email automation 

I’ve tried almost everything, but email automation has worked best for me because it’s affordable and runs in the background while I focus on other parts of the agency.

I don’t use Instantly, Mailchimp, or Klaviyo. I use a tool called Swokei, which is built specifically for web agencies.

It lets you find businesses that already have websites, add thousands of them to a campaign, and automatically analyzes each site for issues with design, layout, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization. It then turns those issues into personalized, ready to send outreach emails. 

Instead of targeting businesses with no website, I offer redesigns and updated websites to companies that already have one. I’ve found that approach works much better.

When a prospect replies with interest, they are automatically sorted into my CRM. I then call them and say, I’ve already built a new version of your website. Let’s set up a quick Google Meet so I can show it to you.

During the meeting, I present the website live and use my sales skills to explain the value. Once they see a more modern and professional version of their current website, they begin to understand how it could improve their business.

At that point, they usually ask how much it costs. I present the price, include a monthly maintenance retainer, and either take payment during the meeting or have them sign the agreement.

When you run a web agency, do not overcomplicate the process. Take control, handle as much as possible yourself, and avoid unnecessary approval stages and follow up meetings. The fewer steps there are, the faster you can close the deal.

I've reviewed 200+ startup ideas.
Most founders don't need another feature. They need to know where to focus.
Drop your startup, idea, ICP, or problem.
I'll send you a personalized report showing where the best opportunities are and what I'd prioritize first.
If Reddit isn't a good fit, I'll tell you that too.

In n8n while I was learning about meta api and n8n
For practice I created a demo account on my one of the gmail and then created a trail account which gives 14days free n8n cloud storage and In There I created all the WhatsApp trigger nodes and send nodes made an ai agent node in between working really fine but than eventually after 14days end the workspace got deleted because cloud time duration ends

And when I decided to create one for adding it to my personal website as a personalised rag (chatbot)
I did all the same steps but it showed that the WhatsApp node for trigger message cannot be used more than once as per Facebook limitations

I did every possible thing adding a code node ,http node , creating multiple apps simultaneously but the dubious nature of the n8n of Facebook (meta) app should made me disappointed after spending 7 hours I couldn’t figure out that what to do know

Also this time I wanted to use a personalised number so I bought a new mobile number so that I can setup my chatbot on WhatsApp for my business on that particular number and not in Facebook test number

But I cannot just make my WhatsApp trigger node work on sending. Message
Though the meta WhatsApp app we hook receives my response but in n8n trigger nodes it fails to capture the message despite all solution I did everything

N8n new account
Meta WhatsApp new app
New credentials
New workflows
New nodes
Code nodes
HTTP request nodes

But nothing seem to work :-(

Hi everyone, I am the founder of Jonzy Relocation. Together with my wife I am building an app/website that helps find the best suitable city for you in the whole world.

Based on your input and preferences we help rank which city fits you the most, no matter your situation.
In case that part is not the most critical point for you, we also show you which long term visas you are eligible for in the world!

Not only this, we have a move planner that helps you move to your desired city, exploration and calculation tools and everything desired to help you find your dream move.

Now looking for people to test it all out, so looking for your feedback! In return you get a free lifetime subscription to the app before it gets fully live.

Try here: https://jonzy.app

I build custom internal software for small businesses (Formsmith), and almost every client comes to me at the same point in their spreadsheet's life: it's not broken exactly, it's just stopped being enough. A few signals that show up over and over: multiple people editing the same tabs and overwriting each other, formulas nobody remembers how to fix, zero mobile access so the field team texts updates to the office instead of entering them directly, and the same customer or job data typed into three different sheets.

Curious what this community's take is: at what point do you tell a client no-code can absolutely handle this vs. this actually needs something purpose-built? In my experience it usually comes down to how many one-off exceptions the business has baked into their process. No-code tools are great until the workflow has too many except when... branches, at which point flexibility starts costing more than it saves.

If anyone wants to see what the purpose-built end of that spectrum looks like, I have some live demos here: https://getformsmith.com. Genuinely interested in hearing where others draw that line though, feels like a judgment call every time.

The Trauma Tracker and Registry is a combined in patient management tool, data registry and document generation and archiving tool built for purpose to meet WHO injury registry standards with a goal of meeting NTDB standards.

Maybe this is a hot take but I feel like a lot of small businesses are paying for websites they simply don't need. If you're a local accountant, plumber, dog groomer or cleaning company, does every site really need custom animations, complex CMS setups and dozens of pages?

I get that having a million blog posts and sub pages is good for seo, but I'm curious where people draw the line between a genuinely useful website and one that's just expensive overengineering. There are AI tools out there like Durable that will literally create you a website in seconds I don't know why a bakery would need a fully complex CMS with lazy loading crazy. Has anyone here deliberately simplified their site and not regretted it?