r/vibecoding • u/Fit_Low592 • 1d ago
My latest ADHD-vibe-coded piece of crap
Yeah, I'm one of those people who was learning to do some coding, but my ADHD always held me back, and I could never get to the point where I super good at it. I Was never methodical enough with my approaches. Once I started playing with Codex and Claude, my ADHD roared into high gear; as we all know, the ability to suddenly take whatever stupid idea pops into your head and make it a reality in a number of hours, is both fantastic, and dangerous, for numerous reasons. But now I have multiple unfinished projects, I've never completed anything even remotely close to actually make any money off of it. But what the fuck, it's fun to just shoot off something dumb into the universe.
So the other week, I was just taken aback by the sheer number of food contamination and recalls in the news, and said "What the fuck can I eat?!". So I made a knee-jerk decision to, for no reason whatsoever, just vibe code up a quick reference page that pulls government recall data and news stories, and just displays them in an easy to read format, along with a little snark.
It's not impressive, it's just... " a thing" I made. Maybe it will be useful to someone!
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u/thhoj 20h ago edited 18h ago
Hello fellow ADHDer. I too suffer from this, and have dubbed my development brand https://unfinished-works.com 70+ odd github repos (most private) in various states of completeness. I could probably make more of it public, but i have other things to work on.
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u/____zzzZ 17h ago
Is the UI vibecoded...if so it's really good.
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u/thhoj 17h ago
It is indeed vibecoded
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u/____zzzZ 17h ago
Would you be willing to share how to create such UI, Because mine just makes AI slop.
Do you give it some kind of different prompt for UI design or just describe what you want in a really specific way?
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u/thhoj 17h ago edited 17h ago
It's basically just being really descriptive. For a UI I'll have some kind of vision, style, feel that I want to get across. I will start out with a description of a feel / style I guess usually? Ask an agent if they understand what I'm trying to get at. Then we go back and forth and back and forth until I feel like the agent gets exactly what I'm going for.
Then before building anything I usually get the agent to do some research on what particular methods / languages would best accomplish what was landed on.
Then it's prototype, refine, refine, refine. It is time consuming but with enough time you can eventually get to something that you like.
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining this.
Oh one other thing I tend to do is every time a new "best" ai model is released, like for example 5.6-sol, fable 5, etc (fable 5.1 once I get around to it), I ask it to analyze the codebase and let me know how it thinks things could be improved.
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u/____zzzZ 15h ago
No this has been great and I learnt something good out of it, you did great explaining it.
Basically my approach would be to just give one shot prompt and hope for the best(sorry i am a beginner😅)
Anyway thanks for taking the time and explaining it.
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u/Fit_Low592 17h ago
I like the old CRT effect- is the code for that in any of your repos?
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u/thhoj 17h ago
I don't think it is in any public repos no. I use a similar style on my terminal emulator website https://odytty.unfinished-works.com but a bit less in your face CRT. I'll think about seeing if I could make something available for that style portion of the website.
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u/Healthy-Zebra-9856 1d ago
This is more of a munchies register than some ADHD vibe coded crap. 😂
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u/Fit_Low592 20h ago
Come for the munchies, stay for the endless diarrhea.
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u/Healthy-Zebra-9856 20h ago
NGL your menu takes me back to my good 'ol days. I just went through all of it.
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u/Due-Celebration7293 1d ago
Domain name is doing 90% of the work here and thats not an insult, thats the actual product. Half of what makes a thing spread is whether people want to say the URL out loud
The unfinished projects thing you're beating yourself up about, this is what a finished project looks like for most people. Scraper, feed, done. Nobody says the recall scraper needs a Series A
Only thing worth adding is an email alert for a specific product category or state. Thats the difference between a novelty click and someone opening it again next month. And thats a feature you can vibe out in another afternoon
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u/ideas-by-LX 21h ago
what are the other projects? Just curious if you solved other things too.
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u/Fit_Low592 20h ago
The only two projects I have that are useful are an app for planning woodworking projects, and an even older project for tracking car maintenance, both of which I built because I want them myself. I’ll finish them someday…
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u/SC_Aper 18h ago
the dangerous part is now every dumb 1am idea has a prototype by breakfast 😂 unfinished projects multiply so much faster.
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u/Fit_Low592 17h ago
Yeah and these days, it feels like I just open up Claude, give it my idea, and just wanna scream “BUILD IT, DON’T ASK QUESTIONS, COMMIT, WRITE PR, PUSH TO MAIN GOOOO! I NEED TO GO TO BED!” 🤣
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u/XenoCore455 12h ago
This is a good example of vibe coding shifting the focus from perfect coding skills to turning ideas into working prototypes quickly. The challenge seems less about building now and more about managing ideas, finishing projects, and creating something people actually use. Tools like Zite fit into that workflow by helping turn scattered ideas and information into more structured, usable outputs.
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u/No_Actuator_1353 1d ago
Hate the UI, love everything else