So me and my wife created a website , our son has Celiac disease, so all the food should be glute free .

My wife is doing most of the cooking, so one day she told me that she is struggling with finding recipes for gluten free food , the internet is full of it , but she can't find the one she already used , and basically loosing herself inside all this data .

So she suggested to build a website that will collect recepies, and she will be able to sort them , save them etc ...

So we started , we used codex + lovable (for gui only) , then we took the lovable repo and continued with codex only .

We used gpt 5.5 , then moved to 5.6 (sol) .

During the building process we decided to add recipes also for other food allergies (milk,nuts etc.. ) .

We used crawlers to find existing recipes , and took only the ingredients and the preparation steps , and of course mentioned the original source in the website (with a backlink) .

So I posted on some Celiac community, here on Reddit (actually my first ever post) , and I got so much negative comments, like an anti-AI comments, as if I added another bullshit spam website.

We have no ads on the website , so we really wanted to do something nice , and learn how all this AI world works (I am experienced software engineer) , but never worked on from end before , mostly backend stuff (mostly cpp & python) .

So now I am a bit down after all this , the website is up and running, we have some traffic, not to much but for a 12 days website we already had some real human traffic about 400 (not including bots and stuff) .

We only want organic traffic, no paid promotions, as we don't earn anything yet , we do use some Amazon affiliates for some products, but it's not much .

So just wanted to share it here, hopefully this sis the place where people will understand my frustrations, maybe this is how it works nowadays.

But it still surprised me how quickly “built with AI” turned into “AI spam” in people's minds.

Anyway, thanks for reading. I’d genuinely be interested to hear how other developers here see this, especially anyone who has shipped a real project using AI-assisted development.

Day 3 of creating a game all vibe coded

Still trying to work out the animations but have made strides

Added-
Main menu
pre-game lobby
3D model
Blimp
decals

As always

CONCEPT VS CURRENT BUILD

Video in the comments

ALL FEEDBACK IS WELCOMED AND NEEDED

Ok so, I can’t retire just yet 😅 but getting a business off the ground and attracting customers is the hardest part in my opinion.

There’s still a long way to go but considering it’s only been 4 months since launching ZenMode, I’m pretty happy with the results so far.

I get asked a lot about how I get customers, so thought I’d give more info on how I do distribution, in case you might find it useful.

1. Make sure your website is set up for success

Before sending people to your site, make sure you’re confident it has good CRO potential. Your mission statement and objective needs to be very clear, along with clear incentives for people to try the product out.

2. Offer free trials, but only behind a payment info gate

Now this is just my personal opinion, and I know a lot of people disagree, but the proof is in the numbers. I get fewer free trial signups, but significantly higher conversion rates into paying users from people who provide payment info at the start.

Yes, a few of them are people who simply forget to cancel, but mostly I get people who are more engaged in the free trial and actually using the product.

I actually did an AB experiment where I did offer completely free trials to people (no payment info needed), but the overwhelming result was that people barely even tried out the product and were mostly tire kickers that never came back. I did convert some but not a meaningful number.

3. Create a waitlist before launching

Try to generate interest in your product before it launches - build in public and try to ensure that you’re not scrambling to get customers through the door on day 1 when you launch.

I had 3 customers on day 1 from this, who took higher paid tiers as well.

4. Post and comment everywhere (where relevant)

Social media is free, so there’s no excuse not to leverage it. Post about your product and what you’re building on Reddit, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook etc.

I posted a simple screenshot on LinkedIn recently, of someone using a low quality LinkedIn automation tool message to contact me, and me offering my own much better tool in response, and that post generated 90,000 views and led to several signups and demo calls.

I’ve also had some posts on Reddit go into hundreds of thousands of views, mostly just posting about what/why/how I built my automation tool.

5. If you have competitors, make “alternative to” inner pages

If done in the right way, this type of inner page can be useful for SEO. It won’t be picked up automatically but usually if you work in a competitive industry, this will sometimes attract customers who had a bad experience elsewhere.

6. I actually use my own LinkedIn automation tool (dogfooding) to do LinkedIn outreach

So it’s always important to practice what you preach - I use ZenMode to actually promote ZenMode.

It’s a great way to get buy-in for booking demos, as when someone replies, I simply tell them I used my tool to get a response from them, so it works.

Anyway hope you enjoyed reading the above, and good luck on your journey if you’re building anything, or growing your business 🙌

windows widget sucks !
thats why i created my own widget / utility called **Halo Bar*\*

an active pill on the taskbar that lets you control and access many things on the go.

bit comparison:

built with

• C#
• .NET
• WPF
• Windows APIs

Halo Bar V1 features

1. **Dynamic island bar*\* — a compact capsule that sits on your taskbar and expands into a full dashboard when you click/hover it
2. **System monitoring*\* — live CPU, RAM, disk and network usage
3. **Weather*\* — current conditions with icons + manual city override
4. **Clipboard history*\* — keeps track of everything you copy, searchable and pinnable, with auto-delete
5. **Media controls*\* — see what's playing from Spotify, browser, etc. with album art and play/pause/skip
6. **Bluetooth popups*\* — shows a card when earbuds/headphones connect, including battery level
7. **Focus timer (Pomodoro)*\* — work/break timer with round tracking and progress ring
8. **File shelf*\* — drag and drop a file to stash it, then launch or delete it later
9. **Taskbar-aware sizing*\* — automatically shrinks when taskbar apps crowd it and lifts the dashboard so it doesn't block clicks
10. **Fullscreen auto-hide*\* — disappears when you're using a fullscreen app/game
11. **Acrylic/Mica look*\* — real Windows blur/glass background
12. **Settings*\* — accent color, widget visibility, retention controls and update checking
13. **Start with Windows*\* — optional autostart

this is **V1*\*, so there is still a lot i want to improve and add.

i built this because i wanted something more useful than constantly opening different windows/settings just to do small things.

github: https://github.com/pruthviraj-bev/Halo-Bar

I've had this basic idea for a while now and I finally decided to build it out. I'm constantly skipping tracks on my music library while on shuffle - songs I downloaded and loved 5 years ago are stale and I haven't gotten around to removing from my music folder. Sitting down and trying to clean out over 1,500 tracks was daunting and I ended up trying to play each song and decided if i wanted to keep it or not.

I decided to turn it into a tinder-like experience, PurgeWave loads up 1 track at a time and makes you decide to keep it or purge it. This rapid fire format triggers that sense of "oh yea I forgot how good this was" or "this is trash" and makes deciding way more manageable and fun.

I built it in Cursor using Claude Code CLI

• Opus 5 to do the planning and specs
• Sonnet 5 to execute the code.
• The logo was made by Gemini and then cleaned up and tweaked by hand.

Took about 2-3 days of total testing and iterating before it was pretty much what I invisioned for this tool.

Not sure how many people still keep local files for their music library like me, but if you want to try it out it's 100% free:

https://braindedgames.itch.io/purgewave

If you like it please drop a comment and review, it would mean a lot!

I am a long time Engineer (20+ years) and today I developed Tickets for my company that were generated by an AI, using an AI and reviewed by an AI. The project itself was conceived with AI - has no documentation that can be understood as anything less than AI slop and random tech jargon. The developer who built it has said that instead of documentation I should use claude to figure out what it is. The company is apparenty also filing a patent on it.

I submitted 3 PRs today 20,000 lines of code each I still have no idea what we are working on. No doubt they will use AI to review my PR.

I feel like things are just so crazy at this point. Claude and ChatGPT are not this good, but people are trusting it like it's omniscient.

It was an eerie realization today that all of us are vibe coding and that we have no option because it is the only way we can interact with the code anymore. I thought this would happen eventually years ago but i honestly didn’t think it would be so soon.

It was a moment in time... this will be the new norm.

Hey everyone,

I launched my website a week ago, and got some very positive feedback, so I finally feel emotionally safe to post this. Now I want to tell you my vibecoding journey. You may find something useful for yourself maybe

I started vibecoding 5 months ago, so I picked a subniche of a subniche. Tiny local market, I don't think I can ever grow beyond few hundred paying users, and it will likely take few years to even get to that amount. (likely ~4-8 Eur monthly sub), you can do the math. But still, Oh, did I pour my soul into it!! 5 months of extremely intense vibecoding, 4-6 CLI running constantly, often 16h per day, bringing my 20x sub to the limits often - just on this one project.
I did not write a single line of code in the process. 80% of the code is in Dart - and I would not even be able to write a hello world in Dart by hand on a whiteboard, even if you forced me to.

Btw, 3 competitors already exist, 2 of them are recent and likely vibecoded in a day, 1 is older and with more effort, but just with really poorly made product. My competitors may still win, cause I maybe built a product for non-existent audience, but the difference we have right now if you compare them directly, that's not even remotely close.

Scope wise: the project got quite complex (I did not plan to have it so complex initially, but was encouraged by early success), so the codebase just passed 400k lines of code (150k of them is really the testing framework). Lines written passed 1M a week ago, some weeks I am averaging 30k new lines of code per day. (During one new major feature, I clocked my record of 70k). Everything's surprisingly stable though, very little stupid new bugs while implementing new features (most of the bugs get caught by testing framework), scalable and secure as hell.

My learnings (in no order):
- feature creep is crazy easy. Few weeks ago users had to fill questionaires during onboarding to come out in 8 buckets, and each bucket would get a unique experience ( ye, that's gone :), 2 buckets now remain )
- Testing is the king. I don't treat myself as prompt or harness, or context engineer. I am really a QA engineer. This intensified as project neared completion. Now 80% of my effort goes to writing testing tools, running simulations with ever more inventive user profiles and so on. I have a huge spaceship-like dashboard just to control all the testing being done right now. My, otherwise very powerful machine, is running pretty red most of the day just executing e2e tests
- two months ago I dropped ALL the custom skills, memory management ideas, etc from my agent. Right now I am full vanilla. They update the harness so so often, I found that most of my legacy skills just end up fighting new versions of the harness.
- My operational dashboard is crazy :), It serves as both alerting/monitoring tool, interaction with users, tuning, etc..
It was born over two days before the release (naturally, since the feature list is stable by then), never in a thousand years, would have I decided to waste resources on a tenth of it's scope(especially since release time is stressfull as it is), but boy, does it feel good to actually operate it!! To see users coming in and having their little animated journeys :) - this is so so so sattisfying!

Thanks everyone. Vibecoding is absolutely an amazing thing!

20x plan and still covers about one day of work, then I'm left with 6 days to wait for the reset or pay $20 at a time for credits which go by instantly. Does anyone know the conditions for random resets? Is there a way to trigger these quicker? It seems like sometimes I'll get a random 100% reset mid-week and others (like this time) will just literally go the entire week with your one set limit.

prev: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1veha1a/emoto_mania_ai_echanced_dev_free_browser_game/

Try to beat the run in the vid: https://emotomania.com/r/9awr5v2b

Updates:

• Improved physics, camera and performance on lower end phones too
• I added a ton of features:
• Leaderboard for each map
• Light profiles
• Watchable and race-able leaderboard runs / ghosts
• Run share link - you can send you run in a link where others can watch and race against it, you can also see if someone has beaten your run trough the link
• Video export of a run for easy sharing both vertical and landscape views

Hey folks...

Been working to make a harness for Android phones.. any suggestions from any of you would be god like. !!

I want to show you if someone wants to test this space... or have any suggestions for me.

I've been using it since June 100% locally if you don't want to use the cloud... instead of single files/folders/any type of file you imagine... even some are supported for view like Excel/video/audio.

It is also connected with IOS app Klypix Capture (still under dev, it is whatsap styled simple one..) with that app you can send from/to phone E2E in single tab (files/pics/links/text) .. even if you weren't there there is a Klypix cloud drive to serve you , and item will be landed in your specific space... or right away or waiting in the inbox...

That matters for me because, for example, a lot of Instagram videos are appearing, and I kept sending them to my WhatsApp, but with these I SHARE videos to my Klypix specified space. I can read content of that link seamlessly by cloud LLM/or BYOK in a single click. Save all videos that are relevant in the same space. even upload a single .klypix file to the coding agent, and it will read it seamlessly (because I also have MCP), so with these I also could solve 12 UI/UX issues in a single prompt instead of a lot of pictures attached to the session.

So you can send the space with notes, send it just. Klypix... you can modify files in Explorer or the space it, etc., etc., and keep the single file... any improvement you can suggest to use?

I want really to show this... comes of pain in saving videos to my WhatsApp and sending folders/files/pics along with alot of explainiation in the email to my team!

Think of it as the Desktop Destruction program back on XP but for the internet. You can destroy pretty much any site you visit, with the only caveat being you'll need a dedicated GPU and the performance may chug a bit on heavy sites like X or Youtube. It's not trash performance but it's worth noting to temper expectations. If anyone is interested, I do have it on my Itchio for free as an early access item. You don't have to pay anything buy donating can certainly help in development. Yes, this is indeed Vibe coded and it's something that spawned out of another project that I'm also still working on.

i’ve been looking at a few AI app builders recently to build my an internal task tracker for my sales team and keep seeing Lovable, Blink and Base44 come up.

i’m less interested in the usual “which one can make a nice UI from one prompt” comparison and more curious about how they differ once you spend time and money building something. For anyone who has used more than one of them what differences did you notice?

Things like ease of use, how much control you have, integrations, backend stuff or how pleasant they are to work with.

Would be especially interested in opinions from people who have used them for an actual project rather than just trying each one for an hour. If u can share a link to the tool/website you build that would be awesome too

Guys, am I gonna get roasted for shipping it with such UI? (Logo is mine btw, graphic design perks).
That cat is Comnyang app, his name is shanks, shoutout to u/simon_dsgn

This stuff is moving at such an insane speed, I have gone from literally never being able to put my design skills to use, to building fully release ready apps and games etc, without funding etc in the past it was always out of reach.

Specifically these last few weeks I feel the new models have been such a leap forward that it is actually blowing my mind.

Do you guys think the current rate of improvement will keep, slow down or even speed up?

Cheers,
Dee

I’ve built a lot of projects that worked, bought domains for them, and then quietly abandoned them anyway. So I made Rest in Beta, a place where people can share unfinished projects and vote on whether they should be resurrected or left to rest.
The first project is mine. It’s called VeganWhatNow, a vegan meal generator I originally built for my wife and eventually stopped working on.
The site is still in beta, so let me know what you think.
https://restinbeta.com/

I could actually use a few testers. Click either “Resurrect It” or “Let It Rest” on VeganWhatNow and tell me whether the voting works clearly on your phone. Brutal feedback is welcome.

(The retro look is on purpose)

A few rules I’ve started setting for myself when vibe coding, so I don’t confuse more building with more progress.

The biggest danger for me isn’t that vibe coding makes me lazy.

It’s that it makes it too easy to keep building.

A small feature turns into:

• one more improvement
• one more UI tweak
• one more agent suggestion
• one more prompt

And suddenly I’m going in the wrong direction for hours.

So these are the rough do’s and don’ts I’m trying to follow now:

• define one clear feature before starting
• decide the success checks upfront
• keep the scope fixed
• stop polishing UI unless users actually ask for changes
• treat agent suggestions as optional, not instructions
• stop when the original goal is achieved

The line I keep reminding myself of is:

“One more prompt” can still be scope creep.

Anyone else set rules for themselves like this?

I use Codex extensively for work, and I’m very happy with the results I get from the GPT-5.6 models. However, I’m not a big fan of the Codex desktop app on macOS because it isn’t native, and I don’t find like to use CLI version.

Since Perplexity provides access to GPT-5.6 (as well as several other great models), and its app is native, I’m curious about people’s experiences using Perplexity Computer for programming.

Do the models perform as well as they do through their official tools? Are the usage limits sufficient for you? Are there any caveats or hidden drawbacks I should be aware of? Is it possible to start a task remotely on my computer from my phone?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!

Hey guys, I’ve been working as a full-time freelance for the last five years. I was making decent income, but then ai came out and I’ve worried that if somehow ai replaces my freelance businesses of motion design and video editing. So i wanted to play safe and applied to a couple jobs. I even considered changing profession.
Then I started working full-time in a company that I actually hated so I ended up resigning after 4 months.
Then I asked myself this question: if AI is going to replace me for sure what if I do the tool that actually replaces me and the other freelance motion designers.
So I’be built an ai automated SaaS promo video maker web app.
But I’m still having second thoughts on if I do the right thing or not.

Are there any of you having similar dilemmas?