
r/vibecodingcommunity

A completely local TTS for Cursor and Claude Code - hear a short spoken summary after each agent reply (no cloud API) - totally free
I vibe-code with agents a lot and got tired of glancing back at the chat every time a long reply finished. So I made Aftertone: after each agent response, a local Supertonic ONNX voice reads a short line (what landed, blockers, next step) — not the whole wall of text.
What it is
- Runs on your machine (
~/aftertone), MIT, no TTS subscription - Cursor and Claude Code work today (Codex / OpenCode on the roadmap)
- Per-chat on/off (
/aftertone-onin Cursor,/aftertone_onin Claude) - Agents use a
<spoken_summary>tag at the end of replies; if there is no tag, it stays quiet (tag-only mode by default)
Install (Linux/macOS):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omarelkhal/aftertone/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --install-uv --start-daemon
Then in Cursor: Hooks on + trusted workspace. In Claude: /aftertone_on in the chats where you want audio.
Repo / docs: https://github.com/omarelkhal/aftertone
Happy to answer setup questions. If you try it, I would love to know whether the spoken summaries actually help your flow or feel like noise.
Hey everyone, I hope you are well.
I built a platform for builders who built vibecoded sites/businesses/apps/start ups etc, who just want to build and not worry about markets, competitor analysis, pitch decks, business plans etc. You pop your URLs, code, files, images, chatgpt, Claude, Gemini chats etc in and it generates it all for you. You pivot, change prices, markets, it changes it all for you as a living document and workspace and export it in any format you want.
This idea stemmed from my own frustrations of building a healthcare startup as a tool for myself but spiralled into something else.
It's early stages and looking for some potential testers if possible who will get free access to help me improve it and hopefully help you too.
https://ceoworkspace.lovable.app/
Cheers
I built AppReviewer Preflight after seeing how many great indie apps get slowed down by App Store rejections and made it free to get started
Hey everyone,
One thing I kept noticing with iOS releases is that even solid apps often get delayed during App Store review for issues that aren’t really about the core product.
Things like missing metadata, incomplete privacy details, subscription setup inconsistencies, or small guideline oversights tend to cause repeated rejection cycles and slow down launches more than the actual code does.
So I built AppReviewer Preflight.
It’s a structured pre-submission checklist tool designed to help iOS developers catch common App Store review risks before submitting a build.
Instead of relying on memory, scattered notes, or last-minute checks, it centralizes everything into a clear workflow you can actually follow before release.
Key Features:
- Pre-submission checklist focused on common iOS review risks
- Filter checks by app type (subscriptions, IAP, ads, UGC, login-required apps, etc.)
- Severity labels for critical vs. major issues
- Mark items as resolved or unresolved during review
- Add internal notes for QA, handoff, or team tracking
- Fast search across rules and submission topics
- Save progress locally and continue anytime
- Export reports as PDF or JSON
- Quick access to official Apple guideline references
- Clean workflow designed for iPhone and iPad
Who it’s for:
- Indie developers preparing first launches
- Agencies shipping client apps
- Product and QA teams managing release cycles
- Developers trying to reduce avoidable App Store delays
What it helps you do:
- Catch privacy and compliance issues earlier
- Validate monetization and subscription setups
- Reduce preventable rejection cycles
- Track unresolved review items in one place
- Improve release confidence and consistency
The goal is to make App Store submission more predictable and less reactive.
You can try it here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/appreviewer-preflight/id6761920856
Traditional Coder vs. Vibe Coder – A detailed, constructive case for why vibe coding is the inevitable future (and the only remaining role for traditional coding)
Over the past 18 months, I’ve switched from 15 years of “traditional” software engineering (manual memory management, strict type‑driven development, line‑by‑line debugging) to a vibe‑first workflow. I want to share a detailed, non‑pessimistic comparison – and then explain why I believe vibe coding will replace most traditional coding, leaving only one niche for the old guard.
This post is not AI‑generated. I’ve used LLMs (GPT‑4, Claude, Copilot) to refine my thinking and generate code, but every word here is my own. Let’s dive in.
1. Definitions (so we argue from the same map)
- Traditional coder – Prioritises exact syntax, manual control flow, test‑driven design, and deep understanding of every abstraction layer. Often writes code “from scratch” with minimal AI assistance beyond autocomplete.
- Vibe coder – Focuses on intent, flow, and outcomes. Uses LLMs to generate, refactor, explain, and test code. The vibe coder’s job is to guide the AI, review its output, and maintain the product vision – not to wrestle with brackets.
2. Where vibe coding excels (evidence from my own workflow)
I recently built a full‑stack document‑parsing pipeline (FastAPI + React + PostgreSQL) in 8 hours using a vibe‑coding approach. The same project would have taken me 3–4 days traditionally.
How I did it (educational part – tools & process):
| Step | Tool | What I did (vibe style) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Requirements | GPT‑4 | Described the desired user journey in plain English. AI returned a PRD + data model. |
| 2. Backend boilerplate | Cursor + Copilot | Typed // create a FastAPI endpoint that accepts PDF, extracts tables, returns JSON. AI wrote 90% of the endpoint. |
| 3. Database | Claude | Asked “given my models, write Alembic migration and SQLAlchemy relationships”. Fixed 2 minor foreign‑key issues. |
| 4. Frontend component | v0.dev + manual tweaks | Generated a drag‑and‑drop upload component. Manually added error handling and loading states. |
| 5. Integration & debugging | Cursor chat | Pasted error logs. AI suggested the exact fixes. I understood each fix before applying. |
Key insight: I didn’t “blindly copy”. I read every line the AI wrote, questioned it, and sometimes rewrote 10‑20%. But I never typed boilerplate loops, DTO mappers, or CRUD endpoints manually. That’s the vibe coder’s advantage: speed without losing understanding.
3. Traditional coding’s remaining value (and its inevitable shrinking)
Traditional skills are not useless. But their highest leverage is now in exactly two places:
- Building the AI agents themselves – LLM infrastructure, agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen), tool‑use protocols, and evaluation systems. Those require deep systems knowledge.
- Safety‑critical or mathematically verified systems – aerospace, medical devices, formal verification. But even there, AI‑assisted development is creeping in.
For everything else – web apps, internal tools, data pipelines, MVPs, automations – vibe coding is already faster, cheaper, and often more readable (because the AI enforces consistent patterns).
Conclusion of this section:
The traditional coder who refuses to adopt vibe workflows will become a specialist – the person who builds the LLM that vibe coders use. Everyone else will vibe code. That’s not pessimism; it’s observing the exponential curve of AI code generation.
4. Addressing the common anti‑vibe arguments (constructively)
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Rebuttal: So do traditional coders who skip reviews. The difference: a vibe coder can ask the AI to “review this for SQL injection” and get an instant security analysis. Traditional security requires manual audit or expensive tooling. Vibe coding, done right, includes AI‑assisted review as part of the loop.
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Counter: I’ve learned more by vibe coding – because I ask the AI to explain why it chose a certain pattern. I’ve deepened my knowledge of async Rust, complex SQL window functions, and React hooks exactly this way. Vibe coding is not “copy‑paste”; it’s dialogue‑driven learning.
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Rule #1 of this sub: low‑effort posts are banned. Same for code. A vibe coder who just dumps AI output without understanding is a bad vibe coder. The professional vibe coder reviews, refactors, and tests – but at 10x speed.
5. My personal workflow rules for professional vibe coding
If you want to adopt vibe coding without becoming lazy, here is the system I use (and recommend):
- Never commit AI code you don’t understand – read every line. If unclear, ask the AI to explain.
- Use AI for generation, not for decision‑making – architecture, tech stack, trade‑offs are human.
- Write tests first – then ask AI to implement until tests pass. That keeps you in control.
- Keep a “vibe log” – document which prompts gave good results. That’s your reusable knowledge base.
- Manually handle edge cases – AI often misses the weird inputs. That’s your job.
Following these, I’ve shipped 5 projects in 3 months. Zero major bugs in production. My traditional‑coder friends are shocked.
6. Final conclusion (the future, as I see it)
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The future software engineer will be a product‑focused vibe coder – fluent in English, system design, and AI prompting. They will build what used to take teams of traditional coders.
The only traditional coders who remain will be the ones building the AI agents themselves – the LLM architects, agentic workflow engineers, and tool makers. Everyone else will vibe code.
That is not a threat. It is an upgrade.
Built an iOS app discovery platform focused on surfacing high quality apps from independent developers.
Stamped is a community driven platform built to help people discover incredible iOS apps before they disappear into the noise. https://stampedios.com
Every year, thousands of genuinely useful apps launch and almost nobody sees them. Not because they lack quality, but because visibility on the App Store is heavily dominated by companies with massive budgets, established brands, and existing audiences. The spotlight keeps circulating around the same names while smaller developers get pushed further and further out of view.
That’s exactly why Stamped was created.
Stamped gives independent iOS developers a place to actually be discovered. Every app includes a full creator profile, community based ratings across five categories, demo content so users can see the experience before downloading, and direct access to the builder through platforms like Discord and Telegram.
The goal is simple: connect users with great apps, and connect developers with the people who genuinely care about what they’re building.
The hook: We gamified the iOS app discovery process. Explore apps, verify votes, earn tickets, and compete for monthly prizes.
Explore the sites and tell us what you think
I’m building a Reddit-focused SaaS for founders and noticing something interesting
most tools in this space do the same things:
- scrape posts
- generate replies
- automate outreach
But I’m not convinced that’s actually the biggest pain anymore.
If you could have a tool understand your product + ICP deeply…
what would actually be useful to you day-to-day?
Genuinely curious what founders feel is still missing here.
Coinbase CEO last August: "You don't want people vibe coding these systems moving money". Coinbase this month: laid off 14% to go "AI-native". brother
1 month of work doing this, I wanted a design that stood out from the ordinary. ✅
NEED FOR A MENTOR URGENT
Hi everyone! I am here to look for a mentor. I need someone experienced in coding web applications because I am planning to do one. I am literally a beginner, and I need someone who could guide me through the process.
The reason I am asking is because I have a project at school, and it requires a mentor. I need around 3 sessions, so can anyone find some time to help me 😔🙏 Right now, I have a prototype, I am using Antigravity as the main program for my web app.
What I need is your feedback, some advices and what I can use, like maybe some useful github repositories, and so on. I need someone urgently, requirements are:
- Available (being busy is ok, but please do not ignore me 😔)
- Speaks English or Russian
- My timezone is GMT +5, so we will meet up at around 7.00 pm based on my local time on weekdays, and almost anytime on weekends.
- Experience in coding/vibecoding, experience in mentoring would be nice as well
Thanks in advance, feel free to ask me any questions
I got tired of alt-tabbing, so I built a Figma-style canvas IDE
Got tired of alt-tabbing between my editor, terminals, and browser. So I built a Figma like canvas to work on with all my terminals, browser windows, and so on. Have been building with this setup for two weeks now while still adding to it.
It's open source so you can just run and build it yourself or use the prebuilt Mac/Windows/Linux version. Just try it and give me feedback on what's missing. Happy about some feedback or new ideas. Would appreciate if you drop a star.
Download here: https://github.com/0-AI-UG/cate or https://cate.cero-ai.com
Vibe Coding A Less Techy Tech Support App
Hey everyone, I’m building a simple app called TechE for less techy people who just want plain-English answers to annoying tech problems.
Stuff like:
“Why is my internet slow?”
“Is my VPN making things worse?”
“Why does my PC take forever to load?”
“Why are my games lagging?”
“Is it my Wi-Fi, my ISP, or my actual computer?”
The goal is to make it feel like a friendly tech mate, not some scary enterprise dashboard full of jargon.
Currently running on Nextjs but happy to explore other options if anyone has any
I’m building it live here if anyone wants to follow along or roast the idea:
https://www.twitch.tv/turbulence_turtle
and you can have a look live at the site at www.teche.company
What features have you shipped this week?
Here are some features I shipped for BiteTube this week:
- Added a dedicated “Why it’s worth watching” section so you don't have to watch videos just to end up closing them
- Built “Continue the Vibe” dynamic discovery which helps user stay on the same vibe of content
- Polished up the UI to improve user experience
- Integrated Sanity as the CMS to make managing content easier and efficient
Share what kind of features you shipped in the comments to let other users know about your project!
The creator of Malbolge never wrote a working program in his own language. The first one was machine-generated. This happened in 1998. We've been vibe coding longer than you think.
Malbolge was created in 1998 by Ben Olmstead. Named after the eighth circle of Hell. Designed explicitly to be as difficult as possible to program in.
For two years after release, nobody could write a single working program. Not the community. Not expert programmers. Not Olmstead himself.
Then in 2000, Andrew Cooke broke the silence — not by learning the language, but by writing a beam-search algorithm in Lisp that generated a Hello World. A program wrote a program. Because no human could.
That workflow:
- describe intent
- unleash machine
- validate output
- accept what you don't fully understand
...is exactly what people are calling "vibe coding" in 2026 and acting like it's some moral failure.
Here's what Malbolge's Hello World looks like:
('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"
`CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>
You don't read that. You witness it.
The language self-modifies every time an instruction executes. Its core operation — the "crazy operation" — is non-commutative, non-associative, and follows no algebraic intuition. It runs on ternary math. Debugging it by reading code is not a skill issue. It is structurally impossible.
The people who have written nontrivial Malbolge programs didn't hand-code them. They built generators. Kamila Szewczyk wrote a full Lisp interpreter in Malbolge Unshackled in 2021. It's 350MB. She also wrote a book explaining it because the code is, by nature, inexplicable.
Every major breakthrough in Malbolge history: automated. Machine-assisted. Generation-and-validation, not read-and-reason.
The critics say: "if you can't explain the code, you didn't write it."
Olmstead reportedly couldn't explain a working Malbolge program either. The creator. Of the language.
At some point "you need to understand every line" stops being a principle and starts being a cope for the fact that modern systems have already exceeded what any individual can hold in their head.
Malbolge just got there first and was honest about it.
Read the entire article on Medium for the full argument with the historical timeline: https://medium.com/@citrus.lens/the-final-boss-of-code-is-the-future-of-vibe-coding-b9e84bdf8242
I stopped doing marketing for my SaaS for a week and my traffic completely died.
I spent the last 7 days improving the product instead of posting content.
Better UI.
Better onboarding.
Better scans.
Better filtering.
Traffic went from 22 visits/day to basically 0.
Meanwhile, the best-performing thing I’ve done recently was a simple Reddit post with no image.
Slowly realizing that early-stage SaaS is weird:
sometimes good marketing beats a great product.
because even the best product is useless if nobody sees it.
Does Vibe Coding Work Better When You Deeply Understand the Business and the Codebase?
I have noticed experienced developers often get much better results from vibe coding than people who are newer to the system. Not because the AI is better, but because they already understand the architecture, business rules, edge cases and where things can quietly go wrong.
That context changes how they guide the AI, review outputs, and spot bad assumptions early. Feels like vibe coding becomes far more useful when you already have deep understanding, not less.
I spent 2 months building a timer app because I couldn’t focus
For a long time, I had this project idea in my head, but honestly, I didn’t think I had enough knowledge to build it on my own. I first started the journey with Antigravity. Everything seemed to be going well at first, but then the project completely broke at some point.
So I decided to take a more structured approach. I started pushing regularly to GitHub and continued building the project with Codex. Step by step, I managed to turn it into an actual working app.
After around 2 months of development, I also went through Google’s testing process, and today my first app finally went live.
To most people, it might look like a simple timer app from the outside. But during the process, I added, removed, rebuilt, and changed a lot of things before it reached its current version.
The goal of the app is to make focusing more fun by turning it into a game.
You can use it on your own, or compete with your friends. As you stay focused and track your time, you can progress, rank up, and make focusing feel a bit more motivating.
Also, the database side gave me a lot of pain.
I’m not very familiar with Reddit yet, but if anyone wants to check it out or support the project, I can share the link
I built a simple price tracker because I was tired of checking product prices manually
Hey r/saasbuild 👋
Every time I wanted to buy something online, I kept checking the same products over and over just to see if the price dropped.
So I built Price Pulse — a simple tool that tracks product prices and alerts you when prices change.
✅ Track products from links
✅ Get notified on price drops
✅ Clean dashboard to monitor everything in one place
✅ No spreadsheet chaos, no manual checking
Built this mainly for shoppers, deal hunters, and anyone waiting for the “right time” to buy.
Try it here: https://pricepulse-beryl.vercel.app/
Would love honest feedback:
Would you use something like this?
What feature would make this a must-have for you?
What pricing shall i put?
Thanks!
I built an EV savings calculator with live government data after buying a Kia EV9 and spending two years confused, brutal feedback welcome!! - evchargesavings.com
The day I got my EV9, I spent two hours puzzling over why the included charger was adding 4 miles per hour. Turns out it was a Level 1 brick in a standard 120V outlet. Had to schedule an electrician the next week. That confusion — multiplied across every question I had about charging costs, connector types, and whether EVs actually pencil out in my state — is why I built this.
After I figured it out, four friends and coworkers bought EV9s partly based on my experience. I helped each one set up Level 2 charging and understand what their electricity rate meant for monthly costs. At that point a side project turned into a full resource.
What it is: evchargesavings.com — pick an EV, enter your ZIP, get estimated annual fuel savings using real EIA electricity and gas prices for your state.
What the calculator actually outputs:
- A plain verdict: "Yes — switching makes financial sense" / "Borderline — incentives could tip it" / "Gas is cheaper for this driving pattern"
- Annual fuel savings (and monthly, and 5-year)
- Side-by-side fuel cost bars: your EV vs your current gas car
- CO₂ saved per year
- A break-even page — how many years of fuel savings pay back the EV price premium
- Everything recalculates live as you move the annual miles and % charged at home sliders.
- 100+ plain-English guides that go deeper on whatever the number surfaced — home charging setup, incentives, range anxiety, total cost of ownership
- Daily EV news on policy and pricing changes that would actually move your savings estimate
What I tried to do differently:
- Live data from EIA: electricity rates updated monthly, gas prices updated weekly — not hardcoded 2023 averages. A California driver at 30¢/kWh has completely different math than Wyoming at 11¢.
- Written specifically for non-Tesla owners. That experience is genuinely different — charging networks, connector compatibility, road trip planning all work differently.
- Explicit methodology page that shows the formulas and calls out what we don't model (maintenance, depreciation, incentives).
What I'm genuinely unsure about:
- Is the calculator output trustworthy enough that someone would use the number to make an actual decision?
- Does it feel like a useful tool or another affiliate SEO trap?
- What's the first thing you'd change?
Pitch your product in 1–2 lines and drop a link below.
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