Show HN: Yes, I vibed coded something But not sure what to do with it (opens in new tab)

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1 pointsebfe14d ago1 comments

A friend passed away last year from cancer and I wanted to make a simple app to help delivering her message to love ones but work and responsibilities got in the way before I could finish it. Fast forward to a few weekends ago, I picked it up again, this time, I fully vibed coded it and tell it to build the way I wanted to and try to make it as cheap to run as possible.

Now it is up... It can send messages, it can let you record messages/voice, video... It encrypts messages in the browser with personalised key and it let you even set a password to further protect the message (unrecoverable if you forget it as password never send back to my server).

Well... I did it, I have an app after a few days and I want to make it free/pay as you want for people to send messages/voice, video to love ones beyond the grave but now I have no idea if it would be practical for me to host it and who would even trust a random person's vibe coded app on internet... And how can I keep it running even after I die lol ... What do you think? Any advice?

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DostLeFan4d ago

I don’t know whether it would be viable for you to host it long term. I also don’t know if a project like this has strong usage potential.

But to me, it comes from a genuinely touching intention.

Now, “vibe coding” something doesn’t automatically mean it’s bad or poorly made. But today, it’s undeniable that we can’t rely 100% on something built entirely by AI.

That said, this is exactly what’s beautiful about open source: publishing it on GitHub and allowing people, if they’re interested, to audit your code, improve it, in a human and organic way… well, that changes things a bit.

Letting humans refactor the parts that AI probably handled poorly isn’t a bad idea. Not everything made with AI these days should be thrown away.

So honestly, I’d encourage you to give it a try, since you seem to be approaching it from the right place. Maybe you could try making it open source and see whether, organically, people become interested in refactoring it, improving things, and adding new features?

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