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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: 0.199s | 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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quantummagic ◴[07 Sep 25 13:50 UTC] No.45158132[source]▶
Nice Job. This really highlights that people who obsess in telling us that "AI hallucinates", and "AI isn't intelligent", are missing the point. At the end of the day, it's simply useful, and incredibly empowering.
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sungam ◴[07 Sep 25 13:59 UTC] No.45158207[source]▶
Yes, without AI this app definitely would not exist as I would not have had time to make it. I think that this will apply to multiple other areas within the economy.
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1. sky2224 ◴[07 Sep 25 20:55 UTC] No.45162049[source]▶
Another thing to add: developers don't have the time or don't want to spend time on apps like this, but it's not like this is anything complicated.

This app ultimately amounts to something that has been done millions of times, and so I think it's actually quite empowering for individuals to be able to quickly build mockups of apps like this for themselves without needing to spend upwards of $75/hr to hire some freelance dev to do it for them.