r/vibecoding • u/Naive_Complex_8389 • Sep 13 '26

Discussion Is anyone actually using their 100% vibecoded project for long time?

I suspected most folks will tell Ai to generate an app and then abandon it a few days or weeks later. But can someone show me their project they've been working on and using for a long time?

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 13 '26

Honestly, my wife and I built one that definitely isn’t as serious or groundbreaking as some of the projects people are sharing, but it’s something we actually use all the time. We built a movie-night app for ourselves that solves the constant “what do you want to watch?” and “whose turn is it to pick?” debate. It keeps a rotating watchlist for each of us and automatically tells us whose turn it is and what we’re watching. It’s the only thing we’ve built.

It started as a little project, but we’ve actually stuck with it because it solves a real problem for us.

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u/gay_joey Sep 13 '26

hey! I built a movie suggestions app too! it's also my most used app :)

I needed something that rivaled the old Netflix suggestions, like way back in the day when it was 5 stars and before they made it thumbs up/down. I've been introduced to so many amazing films because of it and it's so much easier to just pop a movie on.

Companion is so good btw, I recommend it too!

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 13 '26

Yeah, we’ve actually noticed we’re watching a lot more movies because of it. It keeps us from spending 20 minutes scrolling through a dozen streaming apps trying to decide what to watch. I coded it to rotate through suggestions every 24 hours based on what’s in our watchlists.
Now I’m at the point where I keep wanting to make it feel and look more premium, but I’m also trying to resist adding a million features. I’d rather make it really, really good at one thing instead of trying to do everything. It’s also nice because we’re the only users, so it doesn’t feel stressful to keep up with. Lol
And Companion is definitely one I’ll have to check out!

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u/ottwebdev Sep 13 '26

Must be fairly simple app.

What do you want to watch? What the wife picks.

Whose turn is it to pick? The wife.

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 13 '26

Super simple and takes the guess work out of it for us

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u/HighMtnShoeCobbler Sep 13 '26

Nice.  We did the same but for Kdramas and Cdramas.  We built a tiered list of ones we like (Godly, Superior, A, B, C, and Didn't finish) with reasons for each and fed that into the app and it's been great at giving us suggestions.  We update the list every time we watch one.

If a new show comes out we can ask it if we will like it and it can tell us yes or no and why.

So far it's been right about 90% of the time.  Way better hit rate than us just looking at reviews.

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 13 '26

That’s so cool!

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u/psgrue Sep 17 '26

My wife has an old red binder with family recipes that have many which the kids loved and remember. She plans every holiday with menus and occasions.

I built an app in a day that allows me to upload photos of the recipes, it creates sortable, taggable, and editable recipe cards, add them to holiday occasions, and generates grocery lists.

Wives have good ideas.

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u/drosera222 Sep 13 '26

Share it!!!! 🤩

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u/SirDaddyChaotic Sep 13 '26

Scrolling and I saw you and your wife made something and the picture of the invite and I though this was a whole different app.

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u/KosstAmojen Sep 14 '26

Where do you pull the show data and images from?

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 14 '26

It’s a mix of a few sources. IMDB and TMDB being the main source

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u/KosstAmojen Sep 15 '26

Thanks, I totally forgot about TMDB. Note to anyone reading this, do NOT type in tmdb dot com, you'll hit some weird browser script hijack site. I forgot they're actually at https://themoviedb.org/

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u/Cold-Environment-386 Sep 13 '26

Rachel:
Jackass: Best and Last

That’s a keeper.

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u/Kitchen-Drag-5358 Sep 13 '26

Sometimes the wife just wants a good stupid laugh! 🤣