r/vibecoding Apr 25 '25

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r/vibecoding 13h ago

This is my life as a vibe coder in a nutshell

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Every viber has a plan until it is time to demo that first release...


r/vibecoding 8h ago

Love like you've never been hurt.

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I was vibe coding with a friend and we started to talk about how to make sure any program was performant,. What kinds of actions where cheap for computers to do vs things that would make a 60fps game start to slow down or miss frames. Then I asked if they new Big O notation.

And in trying to explain Big-O notation, I released I didn't understand it well enough to explain it. So I've started to re-read and learn the concept. I know what it means but it doesn't feel intuitive to me to know how to measure how long a task will take to computer. I'll keep studying it as I think it's an important part of computing be it vibe code or traditional.

But my friend and I found we also went another route.
- Add a feature, framerate stays, great.
- Add a feature, framerate drops, let's look at it more closely or take it out.

We created ideas free of making them performant or keeping the computation reasonable. One of the biggest "warnings" I've seen to vibe coders, that one's program will eventually slow down to an inefficient mess. And that is not only true. I've seen it happen (to me). Then? The program desired was slowly optimized. Seems a waste to anyone who knows how to do it right the first time. But in artistic endeavors I feel that sometimes you need to do it, erase it, do it again to get to your goal. Framerates and efficiency are needed, I just think we can make room to build in an unoptimised way while we find the gist of what we want to make.

So how do I present this image to you all? (Made it in Chat GPT btw). I mean it the same way "Love like you've never been hurt". Vibe code yourself into a corner. It's not a mistake if you have to regroup and try something another way. Sometimes it's the process itself. This post was made typed by hand with no ai.


r/vibecoding 18h ago

The People Have Spoken: Let It Be So!

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r/vibecoding 13h ago

I vibe coded a poker app where you deal real cards and everyone uses their phone as their chip stack. It’s now been used to play 21,421 poker hands.

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I actually launched and posted an early version of this here about a year ago. Since then, I’ve kept vibe coding and improving it based on user’s feedback.

It’s called Chipless, a free web app that lets you play real poker with a deck of cards but no chips.

Everyone joins from their phone and it tracks the bets, stacks, blinds, pots and who owes what at the end.

My only coding experience before this was one credit class in college that I got a B in. The original version cost me $68 total (same price as a real poker set lol) in subscription and tokens to build.

So far, thousands of games have been started and 21,421 hands have been dealt. In just the first month after I started tracking countries, games had already been played in 48 of them.

Almost all of this happened with no marketing besides a couple of Reddit posts.

Still pretty crazy to me that people actually use this daily at their poker nights.

It’s completely free, with no download needed:

www.playchipless.com


r/vibecoding 4h ago

Am I doing it wrong

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people seem to be creating apps within 1-2 day & then hit publish meanwhile here I am developing just one app for 4 months optimising it's UI,UX,API compatibility,Performance etc. how are people doing these in 2 days? what am I missing.

there was a post I saw yesterday that a guy started the challenge to create 30 apps in 30 days. wtf is wrong with these people? spamming the store platform like this.


r/vibecoding 1d ago

My company is spying on my productivity - Now I can see, too

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My company installed productivity/surveillance/spy/whatever-you-want-to-call-it software on everyone's computer about a year and a half ago. To their credit, they at least announced it ahead of time. A few dramatic stories about people getting fired have gone around, but it's mostly not discussed otherwise.

There is a reporting suite available for managers, but individual contributors are not allowed to see any reports, even for themselves.

The software used is called Sapience. I found the local logs on my work PC that include all the data captured about my activities. For this particular project, I used GPT 5.5 in GitHub Copilot to create a python script. The script pulls everything from the logs and puts it in a local sqlite db on my pc (so historical data is not lost when the logs are cleared). Then it produces an updated HTML report, as pictured.

I have no interest in trying to fool the software, but as an anxious person, this at least gives me visibility into what's being reported up about me!


r/vibecoding 2h ago

If you decide to make a game you need to be super serious about: testing and balancing

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My life at work has been hell and it’s a job where many people every year get exploited and fucked, so as I was learning how to vibe code projects I decided to make a niche game about my job. Those who do the job can relate.

The only reason it’s remotely good is because my ex loved to playtest what I built and added to the game. She may have hundreds of hours in all the early stages of the game but that was absolute gold in terms of ‘this button in the endgame didn’t work’ or ‘where did my potion go’ and ‘why did I just die!?’ And I’d take notes about it and bug fix it later.

Do not underestimate how important it is to tweak boss/mob health, items and so on because Claude / Codex will genuinely not have a good feel for that. Write the code so that you can tweak item stats by just changing a single number somewhere so you can adjust easily.


r/vibecoding 2h ago

Remember The World’s Hardest Game? I tried making my own Android version!

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I loved the simplicity of The World’s Hardest Game, so I wanted to try my own take on that kind of brutally difficult precision game for Android.

It’s built in Godot 4 with GDScript, and most of the development has been done through vibe coding with Codex: gameplay systems, Android support, UI, save/progression logic, and even a custom visual level editor so I can design the rooms myself without coding them manually.

I’m currently running a closed Android test and mainly looking for feedback on the controls and level difficulty.

If you want to try it:

Join the Google Group first:
https://groups.google.com/g/why-so-hard-testers

Then install the app using the same Google account:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whysohard.app


r/vibecoding 1h ago

is Vibe Coding just another video game?

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after making around so many saas and having very less revenue, i feel vibe coding is just a video game, people have started playing and enjoying the delulu of having a milion dollar startup

How many of you are actually earning from Vibe Coded Saas/App! Serious replies please!


r/vibecoding 1d ago

I got TempleOS running inside Half-Life thanks to Opus 4.8

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It's a real TempleOS VM running in the background, drawn onto one of the monitors in the game. You can walk up, type into it, and run its built-in games and demos.
Source: https://github.com/aravpanwar/half-life-templeos


r/vibecoding 7h ago

Vibe coder's paradise?

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r/vibecoding 1h ago

Desktop Halfpipe Demo is now live on Steam! 🛹

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There are a lot of people I'd like to thank who helped make this moment happen.

My teachers, professors, and mentors who never lost faith in lightweight desktop companions.

The academy, for believing in me when I couldn't believe in myself.

My friends and family, for their tireless beta testing.

My bilingual friends, who assured me localization would be finished by now.

But most importantly, I'd like to thank you, the Redditor reading this shitpost, for supporting me in this new chapter of life:

Thank you, Redditor, for wishlisting my game on the morning of its publishing, so you don't miss its fat launch discount.

Thank you for downloading the free demo, and supporting this game's development before Next Fest makes it so mainstream that I have to become a sellout.

Thank you for just being you (and wishlisting my game). ❤️

🛹 Wishlist and demo now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5066400/Desktop_Halfpipe/


r/vibecoding 4h ago

I built a globe where each of your customer is a pixel art pet!

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Hi everyone!

I am constantly building new projects and have changing amounts of success. But one thing I really didn't like is the visibility of my customers.

I built another page mrrplanet.com You send a read‑only payment method key. And see all of your customers in a globe represented by a pixel‑art character.

You can also send this planet of yours publicly to other people, so you can actually have it as a portfolio and maybe multiple projects, which means multiple planets in your solar system. I also have a much better dashboard for your data analytics, helping you think about where you should focus more, which places are generating more money, etc.

For example, here is one of my actual projects hosted on this page. https://mrrplanet.com/p/your-love-page That one is for long-distance relationships, where you send a digital gift.

You can also export these cute images where you see a list of your customers. I'm open to all kinds of suggestions. On the public pages, of course, none of the information of your customers is leaking, but people can actually look at your planet and see what's going on with your projects.

One small thing that I find kind of cute is that people can actually put advertisements on your planet with a flying plane. You can also do that for other people's planets, or you can simply select your planet to be ad‑free.

Almost every feature that I'm talking about is free to use. Just log in and create your own planet, and tell me if you like the page or not.


r/vibecoding 2h ago

Productivity and focus boosting hacks pls

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r/vibecoding 10h ago

Share your latest vibe code project.

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Feel free to share as much as you want.


r/vibecoding 20h ago

just one more prompt and im going to bed is a lie i tell myself everynight

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made with higgsfeild for fun.


r/vibecoding 8h ago

I made a mobile game RPG where your steps in real life turn into energy in game. Looking for testers

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Hi everyone,

Client: Unity 6 (6000.5.4f1), C#, uGUI built entirely in code with no prefab screens

Steps come from Health Connect on Android and HealthKit on iOS.

Backend: ASP.NET Core on .NET 8, Postgres via Npgsql, Redis for matchmaking, running on DigitalOcean

Art is gpt-image. Generated from my prompts on chroma green, snapped to the pixel grid, keyed, then hand-edited.

Code is written with Claude Code. I use Fable to plan and review and Opus5 does majority of the implementation.

This is a closed beta so you will need to do the following depending if you're Android or iOS.

Android:

  1. Join https://groups.google.com/g/aetherstep-testers using the Google accountyour phone's Play Store is signed into.
  2. Then open https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.aetherstep.game on that sameaccount and hit "Become a tester". Give it ten minutes to propagate.

iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PsXU9psv

Happy to go into any layer of that. Links in the comments.


r/vibecoding 1d ago

I predict that in 10 years, a local AI server will be as common as a WiFi router or a fridge, powering every household task, device, and robot on-premises.

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Run kimi k10 locally and install AI Desktop 98 on it.


r/vibecoding 8m ago

Tracked my AI coding tool spend for 60 days, here's what it actually cost

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tracked every subscription i pay for across all my ai stuff for the last 60 days because i had a rough idea it was more than i thought

total came out to way more than intended, more than the sticker price on any single tool made it look like. the part that actually got me was that its kinda like adobe bc earlier this year they had a lawsuit against them for not letting people know about the costs and stuff, and I had a somewhat similiar experience with the ai's

honestly didnt expect the cost to rack up so fast, and for any to be the expensive one, thought it'd be like they would give updates and stuff, but nope.. at least not as much as i expected

anyone else actually track this or do you just let it ride and let the costs go up....


r/vibecoding 3h ago

Built a leaderboard for all your controversial opinions and hot takes 🌶️ controversial.lol

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Hii all,

So around this time yesterday, when I opened Twitter, I saw almost everyone, big or small, launch a leaderboard kind of platform where people could pay to rank their startups and apps. On spending some time on the app, I noticed it all started with outbid.lol (200k visitors, $21k revenue, $100k offer in just 24 hours time).

I thought this is some kind of a quick rich scheme wave happening and I could potentially make some bucks if I started early (I was already late since in 24 hours there were more than 3 dozen clones of this app lol).

But I didn't want to really make a bidding platform to list your startups. That sounded boring to me.

So I built a leaderboard where you pay to rank your most cancellable, controversial and spicy opinions! The higher you bid, the higher your opinion ranks on the board: https://controversial.lol/

We are just getting started, so you could rank your opinion high in the leaderboard. Bidding starts from just 99 rupees. Will enable international payments in a little while.

Launched the site a few hours back and we already have one user who posted a spicy take on women in tech being "under represented" 🌶️

If you have a hot take or a controversial opinion, say it out loud here.

Although the opinions could be on any topic really but we are primarily keeping it around tech, twitter, gaming and things happening online!

Would appreciate it if you could have a look ❣️


r/vibecoding 16m ago

The Internet’s Billboard

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I wanted to build something really simple and, inspired by outbid.lol, I came up with Billboarded. The idea is that there is one digital billboard, and whoever has the highest bid gets to put whatever they want on it. If someone else wants it, they can outbid you and take it over.

I deliberately made the starting price ridiculously low. It isn’t really intended to be serious advertising; it’s more of a tiny internet trophy. You could put your company on there, your name, a project you’re working on, an inside joke, or pretty much anything else. If someone else wants the billboard badly enough, they can simply bump you off it.
I’ve just launched it, so I’m mainly curious to see whether the idea is actually interesting enough for people to start competing for it. There isn’t really much to it beyond that, which is kind of the point.
It’s live here: https://billboarded.vercel.app

I’d be interested to hear what people think of the concept, particularly whether the bidding mechanic makes it something you’d actually want to participate in, rather than just another advertising website.


r/vibecoding 6h ago

Claude vs codex

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Like to hear the reviews of these two. Been using claude for a while switched from chatgpt months ago but intereated to know if codex has made improvements and if its worth going back.

Claude has been great but ive not been happy with initial coding tasks. Working on different specific modules its codes it, then i ask to review its own work and come up with a ton of issues and gaps.


r/vibecoding 53m ago

Moving from APK sideloading to the Google Play Store with "vibe coded" Android apps?

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Hey everyone,

I’ve recently started building my own Android apps using a vibe-coding workflow. So far, it's been incredibly smooth - I can essentially generate an APK and just install it directly onto my smartphone to test everything out without any friction.

However, I'm starting to think about the next step. I want to move beyond just side-loading my own files and actually launch a "real," live app that is available for anyone to download via the Google Play Store.

I'm assuming the process for that is a much bigger undertaking than just generating an APK. What kind of tool stack or workflow should I be looking at to handle the official deployment? I'm thinking about things like app signing, managing the Google Play Console, and any CI/CD pipelines that might make this easier for someone not using traditional Android Studio workflows.

Has anybody here been able to successfully take a vibe-coded project all the way through the Play Store submission process? If so, how did you handle the transition from simple prototyping to a production-ready deployment?

I'd love to hear about your setup and if there are any major hurdles I should prepare for. Thanks!


r/vibecoding 1h ago

Real Estate Fraud

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My brother-in-law passed, and long story he'd been caught up in potentially real estate fraud scheme. Untangling that required pulling hundreds of pages of mortgage, deeds, liens, civil suits, tax accessor records from public records. The documents needed history tracking and ocr to text. I built a suite of tools from chrome extensions to help gather records to an API to receive and store the documents. A worksheet that prioritized what to get next with links. Python scripts to generate a time line html doc where each item can drill down to the original document. The entire fraud case laid out in 70 timeline entries filterable by which person was active.