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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: 0.434s | 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. mbreese ◴[08 Sep 25 00:38 UTC] No.45163654[source]▶
Before that was HyperCard. It was always amazing to me the types of applications that could be written with HyperCard.

In a similar way, VBA was amazing in MS Office back in the day. If you ever saw someone who was good at Visual Basic in Excel, it’s impressive the amount of work that could get done in Excel by a motivated user who would have been hesitant to call themselves a programmer.

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2. cik ◴[08 Sep 25 04:52 UTC] No.45164735[source]▶
I wrote, and sold my first piece of software in HyperCard. It was a pretty lame Choose Your Own Adventure style game, where you clicked on buttons, having read the text. 7 year old me was pretty chuffed, to buy some baseball cards out of his hobby. I really, really miss that world.