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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 | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 10:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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Waterluvian ◴[07 Sep 25 20:58 UTC] No.45162079[source]▶
I feel like the name “vibe code” is really the only issue I have. Enabling everyone to program computers to do useful things is very very good.
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AuthAuth ◴[07 Sep 25 21:26 UTC] No.45162315[source]▶
I wish that computers were designed in a way that pushed the users to script more. Its such a powerful ability that would benefit almost every worker.
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Waterluvian ◴[07 Sep 25 21:33 UTC] No.45162382[source]▶
Apple has always been pretty good at this. AppleScript, Automator, Shortcuts. I did all kinds of cool stuff in OSX 10.4 back before I wrote any traditional code.
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1. sleepybrett ◴[07 Sep 25 23:26 UTC] No.45163148{3}[source]▶
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