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Everyone’s talking about vibe coding, and how important it is to get your hands dirty by using the latest AI tools. But what are people building? And are these products useful, like for real? The answer is a resounding yes.
I asked on X, LinkedIn, and my subscriber Slack community: What’s a product or tool you vibe coded that you actually use regularly in your work or life? And what tool/platform did you use to build it?
The response was overwhelming: Within 24 hours, I got over 1,000 enthusiastic replies, ranging from a buzzer app that automatically answers apartment deliveries, to a hyper-personalized greeting card generator, to a workplace accomplishments tracker, to a daily newsletter to help you learn a new language, to the perfect playlist curator for your next festival road trip. Your stories opened up my mind to what’s possible, and even inspired me to vibe code a few new tools for myself, including this sweet YouTube thumbnail preview tool, a tool to help me craft tweets for my podcast clips, and the beginnings of a tracker of the most mentioned books by podcast guests (data isn’t real yet).
To nudge you forward on your own vibe-coding journey, I’ve pulled together over 50 of my favorite examples from everything you shared.
As you’re reading through this list and wondering what to do, try opening up one of the AI tools (or a few at a time) and simply describe what you want in plain English, as if you were talking to a remote engineer. Then, iterate by describing what you want to change about what you see, as if you’re speaking with a remote engineer. You’ll be surprised by how far you’ll get.
Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, and Lovable were your favorite vibe-coding tools, followed by v0, Bolt, and ChatGPT. Honorable mentions to Gemini, n8n, Zapier Agent, Warp, and Windsurf.
Almost no examples are alike. Everyone is solving their own hyper-specific problem (e.g. group drafting app for your multi-sports fantasy league), or exploring a random idea they (or their kids) suggested (e.g. a cats and sushi browser-based video game). Welcome to the era of n-of-1 personalized software.
You’re creating a lot of Chrome extensions. This makes sense—we spend most of our time in the browser.
Even though you’re solving your own problem, many of the products end up being used by tens/hundreds/thousands of other people. Excellent sign!
A lot of women are vibe coding. The male-female ratio in the responses is more balanced than in most tech conversations. Another excellent sign!
Thank you to all 1,000+ of you who shared your stories 🙏
“I built CarbScan to help manage my son’s diabetes and blood glucose levels with faster carb counting. I used Replit. Has become a daily go-to.” [Check it out]
“Every time I put on new eyelashes, I take a picture and record the styles and method used.” [Check it out]
“I vibe coded this with Lovable and use it myself every single day. It’s grown to 85K users in total in nine months. Weather apps had too much clutter for simple daily clothing decisions.” [Check it out]
“I built a stupidly specific workout app for myself. It’s pretty gross and not for anyone else, but I love it. I was chatting with Claude about switching up my program, and I was about to ask it to format it into a table when I realized, ‘Wait, I’m in Claude and it can make Artifacts.’ Finally I ended up dumping the code into v0 to get it deployed.”
“I built a web app using Lovable, Supabase, and Cursor where you can upload photos of your fridge/pantry/receipts (or use voice) to detect ingredients you have at home, save to ‘inventory,’ and generate recipes using AI.
It factors in the user’s set dietary preferences and input of how strict/flexible recipes should be with using what you have in inventory vs. things you need to buy. It also auto-generates a shopping list for ingredients you need to buy for selected recipes.” [Check it out]
“Flowbound is an app that gives me games/exercises to do when I find myself procrastinating on something (which is often).” [Check it out]
“I (and users from all across the U.S.) use Paddles.ai to track and analyze my pickleball matches. Vibe coded and deployed on Replit.” [Check it out]
“I have no coding background and vibe coded this as my first app with Cursor/Xcode + SwiftUI. It helps you taper off high nicotine usage. It’s sticky until you’re ready to quit. Took a month to launch. Recently redesigned from scratch in a couple days.” [Check it out]
“I built Storypot entirely on Replit for my kid. Other kids and parents also seem to like it. We and 60-odd families use it frequently.” [Check it out]
“I built a simple app using Claude Code to help my kids figure out expense planning and saving when in college. Great value add considering it’s a tough topic for parents to make teenagers focus/lean toward.” [Check it out]
“I built Timeless Memories with Lovable, which is pretty insane to think such a complex app can be built with that. And all my friends have used it already.
I also built a logo animator with Bolt that uses the GSAP library to animate our logo in cool ways, for different onboarding experiences.” [Check it out]
“I’m a new dad, and while waiting for the little one to arrive, I started tinkering around with Lovable. I built My Baby Logger over two weekends. Tracks feedings, sleep, diapers, and meds. It’s been helpful for us.” [Check it out]
“I built a chores app for my kids. It’s my first iOS app! I started with v0 but quickly moved off it and started using Claude to help me through areas where I got stuck.” [Check it out]
“I built this for parents, and now I use it every night. It’s a bedtime storytelling ritual that turns your daily emotions into personalized stories for your child. You reflect, drop a ‘pebble’ or plant a ‘story seed,’ and the app creates a calming, age-appropriate story shaped by what’s on your heart. I built it solo in Bolt + Supabase, and what started as a side project became my nightly parenting ritual.” [Check it out]
“I vibe coded an AI greeting card generator, and send everyone I know these hyper-personalised cards.” [Check it out]
“It checks my calendar each morning, identifies who I’m meeting with, and compiles everything I need to show up prepared.” [Here’s how to build it]
“I use this daily at work.” [Check it out]
“A Chrome extension that adds my availability to emails in natural, human-style language. It also analyzes suggested times from others, picks the best one, and books the meeting. İt learns my meeting habits to recommend the most suitable slots.
Then, a Slack app for team scheduling that uses the same core algorithm. It learns everyone’s preferences and finds the best time when I type something like Schedule a 45-minute call with Mary and Jane this week. Or Schedule a focus time for me today. I need 2 hours. Both were built with Replit.”
“I built a time tracking app with Warp.dev. All done in a day.” [Check it out]
“I built a Gmail add-on that doesn’t let my inbox hijack my day or steal my attention. I use it every day. It holds my inbound email and delivers it to my inbox on a schedule I set (e.g. 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.) but still lets important emails through right away if they match certain VIP keywords (e.g. verification code), VIP domains (e.g. my-kid’s-school.org), or VIP email addresses (e.g. wife@gmail.com). Built with Gemini.”
