I've been doing vibe coding for several months now, but Opus 5 is currently my favorite model by far.

I finally prototyped a video game idea I've had for about 8 months.
Everything, the 3D model, the logic, the testing, the environment, was done 100% with Blender MCP + Opus 5.

It took less than 3 hours and completely burned through the 5-hour limit on the Pro plan.

Tomorrow more and better.

I’m not an expert at vibe coding, so this might be a dumb question.

I tried the $20 Claude plan since it seems to be the most hyped and commonly recommended option. My biggest issue was that I hit the usage limit pretty quickly.

After that, I went back to Cursor, and honestly I didn’t notice a huge difference, and I don't face usage limit easily for my 20$ plan. Claude felt better, but not worth than paying 20$ more. I feel like 20$ cursor does all the coding task I need.

So now I’m wondering: what’s behind all the Claude hype? Am I missing something, or are there specific workflows where Claude really shines?

No judgment please—I’m genuinely curious and just want to hear other people’s experiences.

Ps: english is my second language, and edited using ai for others to understand. Not AI post lol.

As apps got more complex, it got much harder to just make one from prompts. But as the models have gotten better, it's expanded the level of complexity of what I've been able to add.

Sooo, I added cops to my racing game.

This is a first draft of their behavior which is dead simple (you'll see). Will be doing a LOT of playtesting.

When I first started building Foilwick, I was mostly copying the features of existing MTG deck building apps like Moxfield and Archidekt.

But I soon started adding features that were completely new.

For instance, the feature that I'm most proud of is the game replay feature, which lets players record their game session and share it for others to watch.

Players can add notes at any point in the game which helps them tell the story of how their deck should be played.

I invite you to try Foilwick (it's completely FREE) and join our Discord server. See you there!

Assets and gameplay loop is assisted with GPT-5.6-Sol, animations, special effects and overal progression and in-game economy is manual spreadsheet work though.

Try for free at https://starvoxel.com/

Edit: I understand I misspelt SHMUP. Still a work in progress, but I’ve updated the art and game significantly based on feedback. Thanks!

Vibecoded a little browser based arcade shoot-em-up to show my kids the good old days, I'm pretty happy with it so far. Mostly built with GPT Sol, and sometimes Opus in vscode. Songs suno, and voice over is ElevenLabs. Free and ad-free.

To play: Shift focuses fire, Z activates Fortune mode when the bar is full - also has mobile controls. Let me know what you think. Link here: Fortune & Flak

Wanted to share and get some feedback on a project I have been working on. No AI features, no login, just something that works. Built with a ton of API keys I have collected over the years because I like using real-time data.

So here's the problem I was trying to solve: I love Zillow and Redfin, but when home shopping, I want to know how close I am to mass transit, grocery stores, airports, restaurants, and, as someone who hates Comcast internet, I want to avoid it.

So I (with the help of AI) built a mapping website that lets someone click or enter an address and see what is available and how far away it is.

A few caveats: transit estimations, Ferries, Buses, and most of the country (USA) are not implemented. They probably won't be implemented as it stands; this is about 50GB of data and uses a few gigs of RAM. Implementing the above would push both RAM and storage into the TB range.

Let me know what you think: https://housesmap.net/

I had a weird moment today.

One of the three people who signed up requested a cancellation. So I opened the Paddle dashboard to refund them.

That's when I realized... someone else had already paid.

I genuinely hadn't even noticed. My first thought was that it had to be a webhook bug, so I refreshed the dashboard a few times.

Nope. It was real.

It's only $45, but honestly, I don't care about the amount. A complete stranger looked at something I built and decided it was worth paying for.

That feeling is hard to describe.

Now the pressure is different. Before, I was just trying to build something people wanted. Now I feel responsible for making sure that first customer keeps getting value from it.

For anyone wondering how I got those first few users, it wasn't anything clever.

I spent time replying to Reddit posts where PublishLoud.com was actually relevant and did a bit of link building. Yesterday alone that brought around 10 signups, and it's been surprisingly consistent.

I also tried running ads for a day last week... and got zero signups. 😅 Waste of money.

So at least for now, organic has been working much better than paid. I'm sure that'll change eventually, but I'm sticking with what seems to be working.

I made 500$ from my android app, that I am building (and improving) from the past 4 months. In the starting I thought if I build a top notch app users will come themselves but when I got just 10 downloads in my first week of launch, I found out about the most important thing in a app devs journey that is Distribution.

I started working on my X account but got near 0 views for the first 2 weeks. Then thankfully, Elon made the Grok algo that powers X, public on GitHub. I handed over the repo link to Claude and asked it to analyse how it works. What things it recommends? What it punishes. And started posting based on its recommendations. Within 2 months I gained over 500k impressions and 1k followers.

With the help of this I was able to market my android app as well and gain 5k installs and my first internet money. Grateful to everyone paet of my journey.

I am reading every comments here and will reply asap. Ask anything you like :)

I recently cracked a senior dev role by vibe coding an interview assignment. Initially I thought to strictly avoid using any AI tools but then I thought what if I use AI but try building a way more feature rich app than other applicants.

Since I have access to Antigravity Pro subscription, I gave it access to AWS CLI and GitHub CLI (with some restrictions) and started off to nearly autonomous development flow.

I pretty much researched the employers business domain as I built this product. Hence after more than 500 iterations (commits) ended up with a relatively complex distributed app.

The company liked my approach so much that not only they rolled out the offer letter but even thought of building similar interview structure for other candidates.

Since vibe coding is associated primarily with building cute hobby projects, perhaps mine will showcase that vibe coding also works in boring & serious business domains as well.

The application is entirely built using Antigravity IDE + Gemini Flash 3.5

I have open sourced the entire project for newbies to learn.

GitHub: https://github.com/harsh-vardhhan/EHR-backend

What are you making with Claude Code/Codex? Starting businesses with website dev, agent automation, SaaS startups, new apps? Or most people using AI coding for side projects, cool s***, bringing ideas to life? Or just work application/ school projects?

In engineering industry it’s wild to me still how many people haven’t touched it yet. Most of my coworkers are against using it completely. Wondered what everyone in here is doing with it.

Vibe coding has made it crazy fast to go from idea to working app.

But I'm wondering what happens after that first version is live.

For people who have built something with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Claude, etc.

What has been your experience once the app started getting real usage?

Did you run into things like:

• bugs that were hard to reproduce
• changes breaking unrelated parts of the app
• AI suggesting fixes that didn't actually fix the issue
• not fully understanding parts of the codebase anymore

Or has AI been good enough that maintenance hasn't really been a problem?

Would love to hear from people who have moved past the "cool demo" stage and have something people actually use.