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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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vrighter ◴[08 Sep 25 06:34 UTC] No.45165218[source]▶
but they're not programming computers. They're commissioning footgun-riddled software from a junior intern
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PUSH_AX ◴[08 Sep 25 07:30 UTC] No.45165521[source]▶
What is the end goal of software? The vast majority of engineers seem to believe the goal is for the software to be perfect, when actually it's to do things like catch cancer early or make money. Do you think a person who’s life was saved by software with footguns cares?

Lose the tunnel vision.

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1. vrighter ◴[08 Sep 25 09:13 UTC] No.45166160{3}[source]▶
They are free to use them for themselves. But to use these apps on others can be life threathening in cases. And if not it's still unethical to sell such software when they are literally unable to describe what it can and cannot do.