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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: 0.001s | 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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jmkni ◴[07 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45158952[source]▶
Same, I've had ideas rattling around in my brain for years which I've just never executed on, because I'm 'pretty sure' they won't work and it's not been worth the effort

I've been coding professionally for ~20 years now, so it's not that I don't know what to do, it's just a time sink

Now I'm blasting through them with AI and getting them out there just in case

They're a bit crap, but better than not existing at all, you never know

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1. vrighter ◴[08 Sep 25 06:36 UTC] No.45165232[source]▶
well yeah, better not existing at all actually, if they're crap and you're ok with that. Those just serve to pad out your resume for nontechnical people. It's not like you're actually learning much if you couldn't be bothered to even remove the crap parts
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2. jmkni ◴[08 Sep 25 10:07 UTC] No.45166459[source]▶
My Resume has plenty of padding already and it's not about learning, it's about "maybe this random idea might actually work" and proving out that concept