Top vibe coding apps

Photograph a menu and get a picture of every dish. The app Karpathy built to find out what vibe coding a real product — auth, payments, deploy — is actually like, written up honestly.

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Andrej Karpathy

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Cursor with Claude — the maker wrote none of the code · maker's blog ↗

Criminal-record checks for women in Brazil, from a name and a phone number. A growth marketer with no code behind her built the whole product — interface, scoring, public-records integrations — and raised on it.

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Sabrine Matos

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Lovable, every part of the product · maker's story ↗

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in Portuguese

Scan what is in the kitchen, get a meal plan and a voice that talks you through cooking it hands-free. Second overall at the largest hackathon Bolt has run.

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Sergiy Dybskiy

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Bolt for the core app · hackathon entry ↗

Long-term, data-only eSIMs with usage billing, rollover and referrals — the unglamorous plumbing of a real business, all of it written by an agent.

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Jetogo

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Claude Code · Show HN ↗

A recipe app you talk to, where the voice assistant navigates the site as you speak. A founder-turned-investor's return to building after a decade away, and the comments thread is half the value.

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Tom Blomfield

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Windsurf, with Claude Code and Gemini for the hard parts · Show HN ↗

Save the recipe out of a cooking video — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube — into a cookbook you can search by ingredient. A mobile app, not a demo.

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RecipeOne

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Cursor with Expo · Show HN ↗

Matchmaking for gaming teammates — find people who play what you play, when you play. A working developer's first agent-built project, and a large one.

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Jynx

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Claude Code, entirely · Show HN ↗

A gym log with a coach that answers questions about form and injuries, built from a phone between sets. Offline-capable, free, exports everything.

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Agent Arnold

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Claude Code, from a phone · Show HN ↗

Bookmarks with a social layer — trade links with people who collect the same things. Months of evenings with an agent, shipped free.

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LinkRaider

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Claude Code · Show HN ↗

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guest account on the login page

Tell it what you loved reading and it finds the next one, with reasons instead of a listicle. Two days from idea to a site you can use without signing up.

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MyNextBook

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Cursor, Claude Code and Antigravity · Show HN ↗

What the doctor said, explained after the appointment — visit notes, the diagnosis, the evidence behind it — with a physician in the loop. Built by a cardiologist in a week.

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Michał Nedoszytko, cardiologist

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Claude Code, in a one-week hackathon · hackathon results ↗

Upload a schematic, describe the symptom, and an agent draws the electrical graph and narrows down where the fault is. A bench tool for people who repair electronics.

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Alexis Chapellier

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Claude Code, in a one-week hackathon · hackathon results ↗

An editor that makes students say what the code should do before it lets them write it, then questions the gap. Built by a computer-science instructor to teach in the age of the thing that built it.

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Paula Vásquez-Henríquez

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Claude Code, in a one-week hackathon · hackathon results ↗

Describe what is broken in the house, get a diagnosis, get matched to a tradesperson nearby. Made in Chiloé by someone who had never programmed.

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Benjamin Torralbo

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Claude Code, with no prior programming · hackathon results ↗

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in Spanish

Messaging over Bluetooth mesh — no servers, no numbers, works with the internet off. Written over a weekend with Block's open-source agent, and the security review that followed is part of the story.

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Jack Dorsey

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Goose, over a weekend · reported, quoting the maker ↗

A streaming shelf for films made with AI tools, so they have somewhere to live besides a feed. The site itself took two days.

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Bento

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Cursor, in two days · Show HN ↗

Post the thing you are building while it is still half-built and let people react. A build-in-public board that was itself built in public, at Bolt's hackathon.

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StartSnap

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Bolt, under hackathon rules · hackathon results ↗

Pick the equipment you have, the time you have and what you are after; get a workout with real instructions. Its maker had never written code and describes exactly how that went.

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Travel Gym

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Claude Code, described in plain English · maker's write-up ↗

Dozens of single-page utilities — OCR, GeoJSON, video compression, a Slack emoji maker — each one prompted into existence, with the transcript that made it linked from the colophon. The most honest vibe-coded site there is.

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Simon Willison

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Claude and others, transcripts published · colophon ↗

Converters, calculators and text utilities by the hundred, no sign-up, all in the browser. Made for one person's own use and then left open.

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CalcBin

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vibe-coded, tool by tool · Show HN ↗

Developer utilities that never send your data anywhere — encoders, formatters, diffs — running entirely client-side.

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utils.live

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Claude Code, entirely · Show HN ↗

Where a software salary goes furthest, city against city, with rent and tax in the sum. A single question answered well.

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TechCities

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Cursor · Show HN ↗

Every Paul Graham essay as a checklist, so you know which ones you have actually read. Built on Bolt's defaults and left exactly that simple.

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PG Essays

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Bolt, with its default stack · Show HN ↗

The New York Times as a vertical swipe feed — one story per screen, from the paper's own RSS. A format transplant that turns out to work.

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Saeed Reza

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Cursor and Onlook · Show HN ↗

Make a profile picture that glows brighter than the page around it on an HDR screen. A trend seen on a timeline, rebuilt as a tool the same day.

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xhdr.org

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vibe-coded from a trend · Show HN ↗

Drop in a trace from the Quint specification language and walk its state graph. The kind of niche tool nobody would have built by hand, built because now someone could.

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noghartt

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vibe-coded · Show HN ↗

Every flight you took, what it cost, and where that leaves your airline status. A scientific programmer's first web app, and it shows in the good way.

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Flight Ledger

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Claude Code · Show HN ↗

Bilingual children's books across African languages, one page per book, built to be found by search. A publishing site made by a publisher, not a developer.

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Lingu Africa

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Cursor with Claude · Show HN ↗

A whole desktop in a browser tab — System 7, Aqua, XP, 98 — with windows, files, apps and music, made by a designer as a demonstration that the material had changed.

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Ryo Lu

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Cursor — by a designer, not an engineer · maker's post ↗

Tang-dynasty buildings rebuilt in 3D, every bracket and beam traced back to the source that describes it. A designer and a founder, one twelve-hour day.

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Holly Tang and Austin Burgess

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Claude Code, in a twelve-hour hackathon · hackathon results ↗

A synthetic San Francisco drawn from the census — thousands of simulated residents you can poll before polling the real ones. Two students, one day.

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Tanmayi Priya Dasari and Tejas Prabhune

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Claude Code, in a twelve-hour hackathon · hackathon results ↗