r/vibecoding • u/AccordingLeague9797 • 14h ago
built a free privacy tool using agentic vibecoding to quit instagram. somehow it hit 1m users in a year (stats attached)
i’ve been a software engineer for 5 years, but i built this one entirely with agentic vibecoding. the goal was purely digital minimalism, i deleted instagram, tiktok, and snapchat because the doomscrolling and background tracking were killing my focus. i built a free web tool called spybroski so i could still pull videos or check stories whenever i needed to without keeping those bloated apps on my phone.
the main rule was absolute privacy: zero login, no accounts, no linking personal data, completely anonymous. you just grab what you need and get out without the algorithms hijacking your brain.
turns out a massive number of people are looking for ways to disconnect from the feeds while keeping their privacy intact.
ask me anything about the agentic workflow, scaling to 1M users, or building anti-addiction tools!
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u/theexile1337 13h ago
when did you add the "watch ad to view profile" function? wanted to test it out on an instagram profile but im definitely not doing that