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

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423 points sungam | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 10:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.472s | 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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childintime ◴[07 Sep 25 14:46 UTC] No.45158629[source]▶
would a tool that can take a truly tiny sample out of the lesion be a valuable complement? so we can send it in (with the tool) and get a lab test done?
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1. sungam ◴[07 Sep 25 17:25 UTC] No.45160218[source]▶
Unfortunately not that useful - we could do that now by taking a very small (e.g. 2mm) punch biopsy, and if it shows melanoma obviously that is helpful and the rest of the lesion needs to be removed. The issue is that a negative result doesn't exclude melanoma elsewhere in the lesion.

I have been working with a startup to try and develop a non-invasive molecular test for melanoma so hopefully this will be possible in the future.