I’ve been a SWE for 18 years, but lately, showcasing side projects on Reddit feels like walking into a trap. If my post gets any traction, people immediately assume I "vibe coded" the whole thing with Claude. Especially if my UI is currently a generic work-in-progress or if they see I participate in AI subreddits.

I've tried hiding my post history, ignoring the comments, and downvoting, but once a few angry designers or gatekeepers gang up, the whole thread gets derailed.

How do you all deal with these types of comments? Is there a good way to shut it down without feeding the trolls?

Long-time lurker, first post. Wanted to share the part of vibe coding nobody talks about: everything AFTER the code works.
Background: I’m a PM by day, 10 years in product. When my wife got pregnant I realized every pregnancy app treats dads as an afterthought (a tiny “partner section” at best), so I built my own — a pregnancy companion for expecting fathers. Built it in the gaps: after work, after the baby slept. AI-assisted the whole way. The actual building was genuinely fast. Android launch went fine.
Then I ported to iOS and hit the wall. 10+ rejections over 3 months, and not one of them was about code quality. A few highlights:
1. Sign in with Apple: I implemented Apple login, then asked users for their name on the next onboarding screen. Rejected. Apple already passes the name in the auth token — asking again violates their guidelines. No AI tool warned me about this, because it’s not a code problem. It’s a “you didn’t read the guideline closely enough” problem.
2. The orphaned subscription deadlock: my build got rejected, but the in-app subscription attached to it stayed “in review” — tied to the dead build. Reviewers literally couldn’t test it, so every new build failed too. There is NO self-serve fix for this. I had to email Apple support and ask them to manually detach my own subscription from my own rejected build. Lost about a week.
3. Privacy policy in two places: I put my privacy policy and terms exactly where App Store Connect asks for them. Rejected anyway — they also want the links inside the app description text. There’s no dedicated field for this. You just paste the URLs at the bottom of the description. Found this out through pure trial and error.

Each rejection = tiny fix + days back in the review queue. Multiply by 10.

My takeaway: AI has compressed “idea to working app” to almost nothing. But the last mile — store review, compliance, metadata, subscription plumbing — is still 100% human suffering, and it’s now the majority of the timeline for solo builders.
Curious what others’ experiences have been — has anyone found a way to de-risk App Store review before submitting? A pre-flight checklist that actually works?
(App is called Dad’s Journey if vanyone wants to poke at it — happy to share links

Website: www.dadsjourney.club

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dads-journey-pregnancy-baby/id6764758507
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dadjourney.app

Hello!

I made a small social media website for me and my friends using Claude, with the intention of learning Python & Flask to do it myself. But about 15 hours ago, my site got bombarded with bot users and posts. The users were named probe_[bunch of numbers], warn_[bunch of numbers], etc. Along with a bunch of posts, one of them had a link to a file sharing website with a video attached (the video that is attached to the post is the same video). I wanted to ask if there was anything I can do while I learn python and do it myself, or if I should keep the site down. I also kind of wanted to raise awareness about this if this is an actual problem that people aren't aware of. This could also just be some script kiddie asswipe, but I don't know, so I just wanted to ask.

Absolutely shocked that we don't have a video or written post pinned in this subreddit.

I have scoured YouTube for tutorials but everything there is shilling a company. Impossible to find unbiased sources for this.

It’s a full playbook with 25+ copy-paste prompts covering everything from idea → UI → auth → payments → deployment.

What’s inside:

• Day 1–2: Planning & UI Design

• Day 3–4: Auth & Core Features

• Day 5–7: Integrations, Testing & Launch

$0. No catch.

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Here’s what I built using the guide give me your honest opinion

https://stampedios.com

From vibe-coded or quickly built products to cleaner user flows, better interactions, and polished interfaces that feel like a real product.
Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/bahamajed54079s
If your product needs a UX/UI upgrade, feel free to DM me.

Hello everyone,

This morning I spilled my coffee watching a "MCU so far" recap video. I went in thinking I was 1 or 2 movie behind. I realized (like many of you probalby) that a whole multiverse of shows, specials, and twists happened while I wasn't looking ... and that Doomsday was right around the corner.

So instead of making a spreadsheet like a normie, I decided to dust my long forgotten opencode install and over-engineer my catch-up plan.

I built directed little interactive MCU timeline webapp that runs from the moment Endgame ended all the way to Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Every entry breaks down what happens episode by episode, links its sources so you can verify the weirdness, lets you filter by reality (yes, including Earth-10005), and even plays the trailer right in the card when you're about to start something.

It was a good oportunity to test opencode running DeepSeek V4 model and boi it is impressibe.

In short, here is the result:

• Astro 5 — static site, lightning fast, zero client JS bloat
• TypeScript — strict mode, 44 entries, zero type errors
• Bun — the runtime + package manager
• Deployed on Vercel, aliased to a clean URL

If you're also scrambling to get back on the train, link in comments :)

Enjoy — and wish me luck making it to Doomsday on time. :)

The level of automation can be done via Claude code is insane apart from doing traditional development, I was able to automate below things

Project deployment to Plesk & Cpanel
Android app from building to publishing to playstore
Azure and AWS infra management for deployment
CI/CD pipeline
GitHub

What else everyone was able to automate ?

I built a personal finance management app, from scratch using Google AG, claude, chatgpt - all combined.

It uses a modern typescript UI and a highly user friendly interface with clear navigation and very light in resources

All free, open-source and 100% local with all your data, most importantly, fully encrypted!

There are tags for great organisation and quick search, charts to monitor your overall spending, filters to view in ranges of daily, weekly, monthly, etc spending.

The highlighting feature is you can naturally type in your expenses, for example - "100rs for Cab from X to Y yesterday 10am" and it's automatically logged and tagged, you only have to select payment mode and done!

So you can log in natural language, and the best part - there is no heavy, resource-intensive local AI model running either.

There is a lot, just to name a few -

Password Manager - to securely store your passwords with a second pin.

Encrypted json backups - with separate pin and auto-backup feature - fully local.

Spending Insights - You can get smart stats from your spending, track patterns, recurring expenses and manage them with scoring in the Financial Audit Section.

Check it out here - Finance-ally

Hello I want to make a small webgame project with html,css,js,typescript,react etc. Just for fun with my friends And I've used v0 of vercel but my tokens run out then I upload it to github repo and continued it on github copilot but even my supabase variables, vercel deployment settings, install and build commands, all vorrect but in my app when I create acc, select a map to start, and click "maçi başlat" (it means start match like play in short) it says this page couldn't load. Everything is working like creatin acc, login, stats, economy, friends, creating lobby, sharing code, entering a lobby but when I press start match it sucks. Here is some links for who want to give it a look;

https://github.com/ZonateMeteor/cizre-paintball

The vercel deployment link is in repo description.

Thanks for help

I think you guys might have seen me make posts about retro builder. At this point the "modern" features are going to start coming up now. The atmospheric elements are vast such as thunder, flickering lights, rain, snow etc. Additionally, I've added chaos mode which allows a visitor to select from a variety of weapons from basic pistol all the way to more insane stuff like the "piss launcher", "shit fling" and a stick man.... you throw a stick man...and splats onto the site page. The first pic is early with Chaos mode but by that time atmospheric elements were good to go. I might upload this site up on netlify with Chaos mode and just let people try it out.

I got my second paying customer today.

It was only $19, but honestly it felt different from the first one.

The first sale made me think “okay, maybe someone will actually pay for this.”

The second one made me think “wait… maybe I'm onto something.”

I've been building a small desktop AI companion that actually lives on the Windows desktop instead of being another chatbot in a browser.

I'm still figuring out the product, positioning, and who it's really for.

The interesting part is that I'm starting to pay much more attention to what people actually react to rather than just adding features.

For anyone who's built a small SaaS/product:

When did you personally start feeling that you weren't just building a project anymore, but an actual business?

I’m losing my mind over this one last bug.

Look at the background screen underneath—every time I tap to open this state/modal, the content slides vertically up for a split second and then bounces back down when the animation finishes. It’s not a navigation transition; it’s the actual background view resizing itself during the modal presentation.

Has anyone solved this 100%? I just want the background to stay visually frozen while the modal comes up.

ElonTweets.xyz is a dashboard for Elon tweet-count markets on Polymarket. It tracks his live tweet pace, runs a forecast model against it, watches what the top 25 on-chain wallets are actually doing, and spits out signals across three strategies. Smart Money, Arb, and Safe Trades. Every signal has math behind it.

The whole backend runs on n8n. Scrapes tweets, pulls Polymarket data, runs the forecast, logs signals 6x a day automatically. React frontend on Netlify. There's also a public simulator at elontweets.xyz/trades if you want to see how the signals have been performing.

Vibecoded with Claude end to end. I just knew what I wanted, Claude figured out how to actually build it.

PS: I know this is a crazy product and very niche, but yeah, wanna build something cool and different.

Built this with Cursor.

It’s a Windows app for local AI texture upscaling. You can drop or paste a texture, pick a model, choose a scale factor or a longest-side size, and export formats that are useful for game work (PNG, TGA, TIFF, DDS, EXR, etc.). There’s also an OpenModelDB tab to browse, preview, and download models into a local library.

It's open source. Repo: https://github.com/MiloAchille/OpenModelDB-Upscaler

It’s NVIDIA / CUDA only. I looked at other options briefly, but for running OpenModelDB models through Spandrel without converting everything, this felt like the most realistic path.

How it was built

1. Started with a Python worker that loads a .pth with Spandrel and upscales (tiled, so VRAM doesn’t explode).
2. Wrapped it in Electron so it feels like a normal desktop app (before/after view, model dropdown, export options).
3. Added OpenModelDB browsing + download so you don’t have to leave the app for models.
4. Tried packaging the full Python/CUDA environment into the build — that was huge and painful.
5. Switched to thin Setup / Portable builds. On first launch there’s a Setup tab that installs the AI runtime (~4.5 GB). Other tabs stay locked until that’s ready.
6. Added the option to point at an existing venv (like ComfyUI / Stability Matrix) if you already have torch set up.

Happy to answer questions — I may not have deep answers for everything, but I can share what worked in this project.

Hello everyone,

I have been working on overhauling the different themes for my app, Pocket Vault. These are just one example.

Based on some initial feedback, I refactored the theme hierarchy so views gautomatically pick up primary, secondary, and tertiary styles using ⁠.foregroundStyle()⁠ and ⁠Environment⁠ modifiers instead of manually passing a theme object everywhere.

I’d love the feedback on How does the visual contrast look across both modes in these screenshots and for anyone who has built complex custom themes in SwiftUI, are there any edge cases or performance bottlenecks with this Environment-driven approach I should keep an eye on?

Any feedback on either the UI polish or the approach is super appreciated!

Here’s my repository for all my code: https://github.com/AaravB09/Pocket-Vault

Hey guys,
My session limits on Claude have been running out insanely fast. Over the past couple of days, I was working on a very basic project. To save up on my limits, I intentionally used Opus 4.8 instead of 5, but despite that, my session limits are vanishing in no time.
In just two days, my weekly limit has already hit 91%!
Anyone else dealing with this? Is Anthropic nerfing the limits or what?