Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

I think "vibe coding" will not replace developers in the short term, but it will be the strongest competition for such simple systems. I asked a few LLMs to make apps like these (plain HTML with embedded JS), and they got it right after a few edits. They are also visually more appealing [1].

[1] https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/bb451732-9559-401a-8000-b...

You are right. They are the natural opponents of vibe coding. vibe coding is from a funny X post; this is the OG purpose.

I am vibe coding a hobby project to find out what's the state of things.

I've found that every few hours I get stuck on an issue that the LLM can't solve and a user with no programming experience would have little hope to crack it either.

I suppose this issue might depend on technology and scope of the project.

It's got a bug, if you enter a non-integer like 3 + 2 = 5.1 then it marks that as correct

Whats your simple system stack, preferably self hostable? I may choose Vue, need auth, a multiplayer offline DB, static hosting, file hosting and preferably filter rows by users (dont allow me to see others data if I fiddle with the api).

love the Comic Sans in here

except it's broken

Vibe coding seems to be synonymous with "sort of works, bunch of bugs"

I would change the ? to a blank or underscore

If you can get over the critical errors. That's the showstopper for most non-programmers. Perhaps not as much for the so-called "power users" who can hack together some Excel VBA, but even then there's a lot of setup to get simple projects rolling. Down to the little things like knowing that a .js file is a JavaScript file (and what that means). It's obvious to us, but definitely not to the average person, unless they're willing to invest significant time into it - which most aren't.