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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: 0.284s | 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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softwaredoug ◴[08 Sep 25 02:44 UTC] No.45164238[source]▶
Vibe coding is like spreadsheets.

We take spreadsheet for granted. VisiCalc back in the day unlocked computing for an average person in the same way AI does today. Back then to tabulate some stats you’d need a team of programmers. When spreadsheets became available, anyone could figure out how to essentially program a computer without software background.

It would be interesting to see how spreadsheets failed/succeeded to learn the limits of vibe coding. For example it’s a common meme that you find teams using spreadsheets as databases. Perhaps they are so successful that they end up being misused. Would the same happen with AI coding?

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1. sungam ◴[08 Sep 25 07:51 UTC] No.45165639[source]▶
I think we are going to see more and more people in diverse fields developing applications that meet the requirements of a small niche that may not have been economically viable previously.