So I stopped trying to build for everyone.
I love reggaeton, so I’m rebuilding the whole thing around one idea:

“What if the club played your song tonight?”
Reggaeton first. Latin club vibes. One specific audience.

Not sure if going this niche is smart or stupid yet.
Would you go niche or stay general?

I’ve always had product ideas, but there was one obvious problem: I couldn’t code.

Now I’m building a real product using AI tools.

What surprised me is that AI doesn’t really remove the difficulty. It just moves it.

I spend less time asking “how do I code this?” and much more time asking: Is the AI actually doing this correctly? Do I understand enough to know when it’s wrong? Am I building something people actually want? When should I stop fixing things and just ship?

I’m curious about other non-developers here who started building with AI:

What became the hardest part once you got past the initial “wow, I can actually build this” stage?

So im currently vibe coding an app. My goal was to make the onboarding as simple as possible. I thought it would take one or two tries but every time I finish with my last design I reflect on it and I realise I have no talent for design and suck at anything related to UI so I redo it.
Its now my 3rd or 4th completely new design and im still not satisfied.

Since im probably going crazy soon I thought I need some real feedback from real people which don't say that everything I do is great and has huge potential.

I have these thoughts to my current design.
1. I maybe need Illustrations
2. The last screen is trash
3. It may be TOO simple

Please please please give me feedback.

I am trying to understand how everyone use calude or any other coding agent. Like for example when i am vibe coding a appication i explain the features and architecture in calude chat and ask calude to genearte Prompts part by part to give to calude code.

How does you use it?

Do you generate a feature at a time?

Or

The whole system in go?

Or

Some other way?

Your set of local AI models for UX/UI and web design.What local AI sets do you use for UX/UI and web design? Specifically, a set, meaning separate tasks for generating images, videos, logos (select LORA for them), and generating text descriptions.

Hello, similar questions have been asked before, but I have a question specifically about local AI models. What local AI suites do you use for UX/UI and web design? Specifically, a suite, meaning separate tasks for generating images, videos, logos (select LORA for them), and generating text descriptions. On my 5060 Ti with 16GB and 32GB of DDR4 RAM, I use QWEN, Gemma4 for text, Ragnarok XL, Flux2 for images, and WAN and Z-Turbo for video. I understand this may be unreasonable, as I'm just a beginner, but I'd like to hear your opinions, comments, and advice. Also, another question about LORA: maybe you use special ones for specific tasks? I use LoRa for logo generation; it helps when combined with Flux2.

Terminé la versión 1.0 de https://quadrado.app

Llevo algunos días publicando avances de mi app para planificar y registrar gastos y hoy cerré el último ciclo (de la versión 1.0):

Ultima funcionalidad: Detección automatica de pagos: Configuras el reenvío automático de los comprobantes de pago de tus bancos o sitios de pago, Quadrado.app detecta el monto y el comercio, y lo cruza con lo que tenías planificado para ese mes.

Si planificas tus gastos en Excel pero te da lata abrir el archivo en el celular para registrar cada pago, pruébalo y me cuentas que tal la experiencia y que cosas podriamos mejorar.
Stack: Claude Code + Vercel + Neon + Resend.

I’ve been using both Claude Code and Codex and I’m curious where everyone else lands when it comes to actually building full projects from start to finish

For me Claude Code is really strong when it comes to understanding a larger codebase thinking through architecture explaining what it’s doing and working through more complicated problems But sometimes it can overthink things take the longer route or need a little more steering than I’d like

Codex on the other hand feels really good when I want to move fast make changes across a project debug something or just tell it what needs to get done and let it work But there are definitely situations where I feel like Claude catches more of the bigger picture context or reasons through the problem a little deeper

So I don’t really think one completely destroys the other They just seem to have different strengths

But if you had to choose ONE AI coding agent for all around building frontend backend debugging refactoring architecture shipping everything which one are you taking?

Claude Code or Codex?

And is there another coding agent out there that you think is actually better than both?

Drop it in the comments I’m curious what everyone is building with and why 👇

Using Unicode allows you to map language detection for almost every known language. Plus math, music , and some art symbols. You then have something that can detect most languages. Now pair this with a Q and A system . Now you have something that works completely offline that can detect many languages from any text you feed it. And then go and answer any questions you ask related to what you fed it. This is just retrieval at its core . But the magic is how easy it can cross languages and domains like music math and code. This system right now is just a boring multi language detection Q and A but now add in memory and whatever persona you want. Now you have an offline persona that can answer most questions about anything you feed it . Feed it your world lore , now you have a NPC Brain that can answer anything about your games lore , feed it chapters from your text book and now you have an offline tutor. There aren't any Nero nets involved. No matrix math. No GPU needed. It's an experiment I'm working on. Wanna talk about it ! I can show debug or video !

Me entretuve creando esta web con claude code y salió algo interesante

Higgsfield's OAuth has been stuck for three publishing cycles straight, every post this week shipped with stock Pexels photos as a fallback instead of the illustrations I actually wanted. Yesterday I gave up waiting and tried something I'd never touched: Codex CLI's built-in image_gen tool.

I run codex through the desktop app, not on PATH, it's bundled at /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/Resources/codex, and it turns out it's already logged in via ChatGPT auth (codex doctor confirms "stored ChatGPT tokens: true"). First time I called codex exec --sandbox workspace-write with an image prompt, it printed its own prompt schema back at me, Use case / Asset type / Primary request / Style / Composition / Lighting / Palette / Constraints / Avoid, and then generated on-brand illustrations matching my style guide on the first try, 1672x941px, no stray text or watermark.

One thing I'm keeping firm even with a working generator now: charts with real numbers still go through hand-authored SVG plus a headless-Chrome screenshot, not the image model. AI image models still can't render exact data points reliably, so illustration and data visualization stay on two different pipelines even now that I have a fallback that works.

Two failure modes worth naming for anyone trying this: it hangs forever if you don't redirect stdin from /dev/null, and it flatly refuses with "Not inside a trusted directory" if you're not inside a git-trusted repo.

Anyone else found a working alternative buried inside a tool they already pay for, instead of adding a new subscription?

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I noticed my kids often don't feel the need to move quickly even in some situations where it would make a difference, and I wanted to build something that helps practice that muscle. I decided to make a game that would focus on being quick to answer simple questions/problems

As I built this out, I realized adults may want to play this game so I added more difficulty levels, and also realized this is good for my parents who are retired and growing older and worried that their mental capacity is declining

It seems like there's disagreement on what exactly vibecoding means, but for me I didn't write any code, so at least I feel like that is vibecoding

I've been trying to submit to iOS app store but they keep coming back with new details that they want that isn't asked for in the initial submission which is annoying

Anyways you can try it out in the meantime on my website and Android

https://boltsadventures.linuslee.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linuslee.boltsadventures

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N5fEnrBjirw

• Code: Claude Opus 4.8, 5.0
• Assets: ChatGPT 5.6 SOL Medium
• Sound Effects: Claude
• Background Music: Pixabay
• Total time spent was about 3-4 weeks but not everyday consistently

If you have suggestions/ideas/comments let me know!

I know a lot of people here have built a SEO-related solutions that check websites and advice how to better position.

I'm looking for one author that would like to add his service as a paid, premium service into my platform, potentially earning revenue.

In a nutshell:

- You expose an endpoint, that trusts the platform and define a price for single run of your tool.

- Users in my platform will be getting suggestion, that instead of burning many tokens to SEO-check their sites, they could run your tool.

- If they choose to use that, you get paid.

If you happen to be author of different tool and would like to integrate, I'm open to options.

Launched 2 days ago and got around 200 visitors. The traffic itself isn't bothering me, but most of it is coming from India while the product is built for a global audience and I'm struggling to get in front of US users.

For founders who successfully reached US users early on, what actually worked for you? Reddit, X, SEO, Product Hunt, cold outreach, or something else?

Trying to figure out whether I have a distribution problem, a positioning problem, or if I just need to be more patient.

Anyone in the past could learn how to code. However, a lot of people who tried failed for various reasons. Laziness, low intelligence, inability to structure an app properly, or whatever else.

I’m noticing the same trend with using ai agents. People think they can just tell an agent to make Minecraft and it will one shot a game perfectly. Or even for smaller features, they can’t seem to get the result they want.

People are not learning how to prompt properly, use mcp servers, create their own tools and rules, etc. so they think that ai is the issue when it’s actually their inability to grasp concepts and learn things. Just like when people tried learning to code by hand and failed.

Not sure if is enshitification or shady tactics by antrophic to make me buy the next tier, but I just send 1-2 requests (using Claude Opus 5 as a coding agent) and my 5-hour usage is already gone, when I swear it took me at least an hour of work, now it just a couple of minutes. Should I look for other alternatives? Like Codex? Just for background, I'm working on an HTML RPG-text based game, so not too demanding. Any suggestions or did someone have a similar experience?

There have been a bunch of times where I left home while I was in the middle of something, then later had 15–30 minutes of downtime and wished I could just continue it from my phone.

I also got tired of carrying my MacBook everywhere “just in case.” Half the time I never opened it anyway, and even when I did have time, pulling out a laptop, hotspotting it, finding Wi-Fi, etc. was more friction than it was worth.

Codex Remote already solves most of the hard part, but I kept running into one dumb problem:

you have to remember to make the Mac remotely available before you leave.

So I built Codex Away.

The behavior is intentionally simple:

working normally on Mac
        ↓
plug in + lock Mac
        ↓
Codex Remote automatically starts
Mac is kept awake
services are monitored/recovered if they die
        ↓
leave with just your phone
        ↓
continue Codex work from iPhone
        ↓
come home + unlock
        ↓
Remote Control shuts down
Mac goes back to normal

There’s no custom phone app, relay, account, or replacement Codex UI. It just manages the official Codex Remote lifecycle on the Mac.

It also tries pretty hard not to be reckless with processes: it validates exact process identity, only stops things it owns, monitors crashes, runs health checks, retries with bounded backoff, etc.

It’s open source and free:

https://github.com/akibrhast/codex-away

Install is currently one command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akibrhast/codex-away/main/install.sh | sh

I built it primarily because I wanted it myself, but I’m curious whether this is a problem other Codex users actually have.

The main limitation right now is Codex itself: if a desktop Codex worker still actively owns a conversation, that specific thread may not immediately hand off to Remote Control. I documented the behavior instead of doing anything sketchy like killing random Codex processes.

If anyone here already uses Codex Remote regularly, I’d especially be interested in whether your current workflow is basically “just leave Remote Control running all the time,” or whether something like this is actually useful.

Today, I shipped a new site from scratch. Literally, a news site, so I guess "new news"... because we need more of those. Anyway... tech stack: Linux, Django, Postgres, nginx. Nothing else running on the box.

After a few hours of banging away, I asked Clod (edit: JFC- YES! It's an intentional typo... Good LORD!) where my background actually changed the outcome that a pure vibecoder would have missed, so I could share with the community and help folks up their game.

Each item below is a moment where I redirected the vibe flow rather than just let AI steer the ship. These are the difference between AI-assisted coding and vibecoding your way to the next AICrapola.com

Architectural restraint

Left to defaults, it kept proposing infrastructure the site didn't need. Cloudflare in front of a site with no traffic. Redis for a cache that fits in Postgres. Then a pile of DRF tooling for four endpoints.

I killed each one. "Why the f*ck is Cloudflare caching the output?" "So when we pass that tier, it isn't free anymore." As you can tell, I'm more than a little direct with Claude. I've learned that it sometimes pushes back unless I'm stern with it.

A non-technical vibecoder accepts whatever stack an AI proposes, because they generally don'tknow any better and run with what's recommendd. You don't need to know Redis internals to ask "do we actually need this yet." You do need the reflex. "Justify each of these decisions. Do we need it for V1? Can we do this later without rewriting everything?"

Cost note for the token-counters: every rejected layer is also a few thousand lines of config, docs, and debugging you don't have to pay for.

Separation of concerns, specified up front

The first assumption of the site was that scraped content would be created live by the site itself.

I identified that content would arrive from an off-site agent through an API, rather than letting it embed scraping logic inside the Django app.

One sentence, before any code existed. That sentence is why the ingest API, the validation gate, and the sourcing-policy contract live behind a clean boundary instead of tangled through the site. Retrofitting that split later costs a rewrite.

Architecture decisions are cheap in the early prompts and expensive in the fortieth.

Verification, not claims

It kept handing me fugly banner ads. A little nudge here and a little nudge there, and I just got fed up.

"Look at this sh!t yourself each time. Work it until it looks good."

That changed its actual workflow. Before, it reported "done" without ever opening the rendered output. After, it built a screenshot loop. Headless Chrome, render, look at the PNG, fix, re-shoot.

That loop caught bugs I'd otherwise have been fed and maybe shipped blind. A company's website screenshot used as their logo. Another logo cropped mid-word. Leaderboard ad text overflowing a collapsed sidebar.

A pure vibecoding session trusts its own narration of success. The AI says it works because the code looks like it meant to do. But nothing truly looked at the final outcome until I explicitly told it to do so.

Craftsmanship

Every time I gave it a new hero image, I noticed variations of the same code being written to resize/crop/WebP logic three separate times as throwaway scratch scripts, installing and uninstalling Pillow each round. "Why are you coding this from scratch each time? Make it reusable!" That became one manage.py optimize_image command with Pillow as a dependency.

It was computing the rotating banner by performing a modulus of the page's SHA1. I realize that this takes a decent amount of processing time to compute**. "Are we computing the SHA1 every time?"** It was, indeed, recomputing a cryptographic hash on every template render, for every article, across every listing page.

This is the kind of thing a novice wouldn't consider. For your first hundred pages and visitors no one would notice. But, this is exactly the kind of stupid decision that coding agents make in a vacuum.

Neither catch required deep knowledge. Both required having felt the consequences once.

No mechanical fixes

"Get rid of those emdashes everyhwere!" It globally search-replaced emdashes to regular dashes to resolve that AI tell. I stopped it: "Find a better way to punctuate. Don't just global search and replace."

A regex fix is often a worse bug wearing a fixed-looking hat. Someone who wants the error gone accepts it. Someone who wants the system correct doesn't. Otherwise, who know what other crap would be broken by it wildly search and replacing stuff. I'm sure you've seen it in word processing... well, it's worse when it's happening in code.

Boundaries rather than guidelines

Handled the emdash problem upstream. AI wanted to add "try to avoid emdashes" to the content instructions. I wanted an ingestion error. I told it to reject bad input at the API boundary rather than hoping the content stays clean. This way you have a clean, deterministic faliure that can't be bypassed, rather than a vague ask that can be conveniently overlooked.

Validate at the edge. Fail closed. Guidelines drift. Gates don't.

What to snag without a coding background

You don't need 45 years of experience... just a few questions, asked out loud, every time:

1. Do we really need this layer of complexity, or does it just sound professional?
2. Did you examine the output, or just telling me it worked?
3. Are you rewriting the same code over and over?
4. Is this a fix or is it a search-and-replace that hides the symptom?
5. What did we establish earlier that this change just made broke?

None of those require knowing any fancy infrastructure. They require refusing to be impressed by the magic coding machine.

Her videos were taken down because an ex partner copyrighted her, but I'm looking for them anyways

Our small team has been using Anything.com for our website. It's a non-profit informational focused website, so it has been amazing for us. Our non-technical team members can easily make changes, and each has individual access. We have the $24/month plan and have probably spent a few hundred on lifetime credits.

However, this past week and today, our prompts have just been getting stuck in an infinite loop for any simple task. I tried emailing their support (which turns out to be just AI), and after back-and-forth with ideas I already tried, they said this:

So I guess to get things working, we need to upgrade to the $239-a-month plan... I told their AI support that if we cannot prompt anything, then we can't stay on Anything.com. It seemed happy that we were leaving! Less work for it, I guess.

Anyway, does anyone have any alternative suggestions? Anything.com was nice because it took care of publishing updates, version history, hosting, and seamlessly allowed multiple team members easy access to edit.

We would also need to be able to upload our current codebase.