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Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

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422 points sungam | 2 comments | 07 Sep 25 10:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.587s | source

Coded using Gemini Pro 2.5 (free version) in about 2-3 hours.

Single file including all html/js/css, Vanilla JS, no backend, scores persisted with localStorage.

Deployed using ubuntu/apache2/python/flask on a £5 Digital Ocean server (but could have been hosted on a static hosting provider as it's just a single page with no backend).

Images / metadata stored in an AWS S3 bucket.

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jmull ◴[07 Sep 25 14:12 UTC] No.45158303[source]▶
I kind of love the diy aspect of ai coding.

A dermatologist a short while ago with this idea would have to find a willing and able partner to do a bunch of work -- meaning that most likely it would just remain an idea.

This isn't just for non-tech people either -- I have a decades long list of ideas I'd like to work on but simply do not have time for. So now I'm cranking up the ol' AI agents an seeing what I can do about it.

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1. yread ◴[07 Sep 25 16:37 UTC] No.45159715[source]▶
Why? I know tons of coding MDs. Pathologist hacking the original Prince and adding mods also just in assembly. Molecular pathologist organizing their own pipelines and ETLs.

Lots of people like computers but earn a living doing something else

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2. jonahx ◴[07 Sep 25 16:39 UTC] No.45159734[source]▶
He wasn't saying no coding MDs existed. Just that, generally speaking, most MDs would have had to partner with a technical person, which is true. And is now less true than it was before.