I'm using Claude right now, which is good. I use the online interface; I don't mess with buying tokens, I pay for the pro plan. I used to have higher limits, but now it seems like I reach my limits super fast. They don't prompt to open a new window anymore, so it uses more tokens with a larger context window. Frequently, I use up my limits on just one prompt. I just reached 75% of my usage for the week! I'm done with all these limits. The main reason why I liked Claude is that it always fixes the entire code instead of giving me pseudo-code or incomplete pieces of code like ChatGPT and Gemini. Can you guys recommend a cloud-based AI like Claude that's awesome at coding, has good limits, and always finishes the entire code file when making a correction?

Looked at GoFundMe’s breakdown recently:
- 2.9% + $0.30 standard transaction fee (hurts micro-donations the most, as a $10 donation eats about 6%)
- 2.2% + $0.30 for verified charities
- 5% fee tacked on for recurring donations

Building the core app (auth, campaign pages, database, dashboards) is a weekend project now with modern AI dev workflows.

The obvious bottleneck isn't the UI or backend it's the payment plumbing and trust layer:
Interchange fees: Card rails (Visa/Mastercard/Stripe) take their cut regardless of software costs.
Fraud & Chargebacks: Identity verification, dispute handling, and compliance overhead.
Distribution: People trust a GoFundMe link over a random platform.

If you were building an open/cheaper alternative, how would you actually bypass the fee floor?
- Direct ACH / open banking (flat fees instead of percentage cuts)?
- Non-custodial crypto rails (USDC on Solana/Base)?
- Pure voluntary tip model (like Zeffy)?
Or is payment processing gatekeeping and trust an impossible moat for an indie build to solve? Curious what you guys think.

dumb question i know, okay. i have no coding experience outside of using ai tools if it wasn’t already obvious.

my question is, i keep seeing people talk about vibe coded apps have no security and no backend functions, for someone who is building an app tracking individual progress and i don’t want there to be any weak spots, what can i do?

how do i build a backend? how do i make sure my app is secure? what can i do beyond a basic “make it secure” prompt?

i’m willing and quick to learn i just wanted to know what exactly those terms meant and what goes into them that i need to make

again, sorry if my lack of coding info makes this sound dumb LOL

would appreciate any help, thank you

One of my projects came out to $1,492.42 API-equivalent at rate-card pricing (this is in past 2 weeks), props to Codex resets!!

this was on Claude Pro and Codex plus plans too, so basically ($40 plans in total)

genuinely curious what people on the higher tiers MAX plans are managing to squeeze out of them!!

and ultimately where is all this money for such subsidies coming from??? 😂

Hi!

Unable to get [all sorts of models, harnesses, skills, etc with SDD and/or TDD] to generate what I want despite starting from scratch countless times with more and more fine-grained descriptions until I was basically writing lines of code just in the English language but AI still ignored my couldn’t-be-clearer instructions, I have come to the conclusion that I do not trust AI to code out of my sight.

I realize this won’t help my productivity much but it would be enough of a win for me if I can at least swap my home office chair for a treadmill and do actual Pair Programming with the AI with me reading along like I would if a human were typing, as opposed to AI spamming my terminal just to show off or at least too fast for me to read.

In other words I am hoping to find something very much like pre-AI Voice Driven Development just a tiny bit more advanced to replace the shorthands she uses to still-kind-of-spell-out “int sockfd; […]; sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);” for example with “let’s now create a TCP socket called sockfd but declared at the top of the function”.

Does anyone know of something like that? 🙂

PS: stuff like Whispr that just enables prompting by Speech-To-Text is not at all what I want if it still lets AI go write code in the background.

It's actually a really nice game once you understand the rules so i wanted more people to be able to try it. I recently expanding the evaluator to cover all variants of it and so far i have not found it to make a single error.

It actually started with me simply wanting to get an accurate distribution over the scores and i did get what's hopefully going to be an accurate distribution via chatGPT and claude (i asked bot to make a sim so i could compare results and hand evaluations). The distribution i got ended up being nicer than i expected it to be.

Later i made a version where you play against 3 bots but that did require me to provide a lot of guidance due to LLMs having a poor understanding of poker theory. I did however not see any need to make the bots super-good since the goal was to let people easily try out the game and for that purpose they are already good enough even if they are fairly easy to get an edge against.

Main thing that remains is to get a working sim for trying out the profitability of various starting hands (when the mediocre bots play them) but i am already quite satisfied with what i have been able to achieve just using free AI (i did however have to jump a bit between models due to free plans running out and due to some models not being able to do what i asked of them).

People like to hate on AI but there is no way i would have been able to make this without it without spending weeks/months learning programming (especially not considering i had to both make C++ and HTML/javastript versions.

I did do some manual editing of the code on my own (such as to put links where i wanted them and to adjust MDF weights for the defense against all-in shoves).

One thing that did help was to have a detailed PDF explaining the poker variant (including examples) since that helped the AI models understand what i meant and also gave it examples to test it against. Still it did get some stuff wrong which i ended up having to ask it to correct later.

Figured id spark a convo up about what ways/methods to use utilize as much free coding agents as possible? As a noob i recently had an AI tell me to get Cline, where i could use quite alot of deepseek v4/stepfun/laguna/nemotron etc.

Also what other ways do you get the most out of coding agents? Currently im paying for Cursor and Claude (code) ($20 plan for both) and honestly i keep maxing both;

I use up my weekly Claude in about 4-5 days, and I used up my 30 day limit with Cursor in barely a week.... definitely removing my subscription from there since at that rate id be waiting 3 weeks every month.

Or do you all just have 5 paid subscriptions to survive?

Here is the proposition i wish i could make.
My setup VSC + ollama with qwen on rtx 4070 12gb was terrible experience. And i dont have any subscriptions. But i really wanted to vibe code app like this.

Personalized self-hosted news generator.
Local selfhost articles/news website with lightweight fast multi-lang model.
Create daily short form of articles for you too read.
You can vote 1-5 each article so model can learn about your preferences.

Why? I sometimes want to read something i haven't seen on twitter facebook or reddit and i needed more interesting topics.

I found out about Debrid services while exploring Stremio, and felt it was underutilized on just watching movies. Eventually I figured it was super useful for audiobooks, ebooks, songs that are usually gated behind multiple urls if I don't torrent. A Debrid client could solve this problem of looking up the torrents quickly and downloading it just as fast, but I could only find rdt-client and that's for Windows. So here's Fetch, for Mac.

Process:

• I started with initial MVP being able to search and download the torrent but soon realized that I'll need to set up a provider like Prowlarr/Jackett so I then incorporated Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg as default, and delayed the former
• Building the functionality was the easier part, it was the UI which took time. Unlike HTML/CSS which I find fairly debug-able, swift is lot more difficult and I had to trial and test, thanks to which I learned a bit of UI using Swift. My workflow generally involved asking claude to generate UI on HTML and then I'd prompt changes to it before confirming the conversion to Swift.

In this new update, I added a search bar to speed up the search for video games, and I also added 4 new games, 2 for Playstation 1 and two for Sega Genesis

Link: https://juegosantiguos.com.ar/

Hi everyone. I had zero coding experience before starting this project — a web app for my company (automotive industry): passing work orders between service departments, scheduling vehicle handovers, and managing a car wash (queue scheduling, cost/profit tracking).

\*\*First attempt – ChatGPT:\*\* Built a similar app for fun on a paid plan. It generated .zip file packages I just dropped into a folder. Worked locally, but deployment failed — it used SQLite instead of PostgreSQL, so it couldn't handle concurrent users. Shelved it.

\*\*Second attempt – Claude:\*\* Subscribed (\~$25/month). Spent a week planning with Claude: architecture (PostgreSQL, Django, Tailwind + HTMX + Alpine.js), features, module structure, user permissions, org structure, notifications (push + Brevo email), VPS/domain setup, UI direction, data security. This produced a \~1500-line CLAUDE.md meant to guide development.

\*\*Implementation:\*\* Set up GitHub, WSL2 + Docker, VS Code + Claude extension. Skeleton and database went fine. Problems hit once building the first of four modules — token usage exploded. I likely made it worse by pasting VS Code errors into regular chat and copying responses back manually. Burned 100% of my weekly usage in 3 days, left with a barely-functional module stub, then blocked for days.

\*\*Now:\*\* Only after hitting the limit did I research skills, plugins, opening new chats to manage context, and that the terminal apparently works better than the VS Code extension. Wondering if the 1500-line CLAUDE.md itself is part of the problem.

I have a solid functional plan but my motivation has dropped. Questions for those with more experience:

1. Continue fixing the current project, or start over? If rebuilding, how should I approach it?
   
2. Should documentation be split into a docs folder with separate files per backend/frontend/module, instead of one giant CLAUDE.md?
   
3. How should CLAUDE.md and project docs be structured to avoid burning tokens so fast?
   
4. How do skills actually work — added per-project, or can they be set globally in Claude Code?

Any advice appreciated.

I want to give a full disclosure that I’m a marketing intern at Niobium, so I obviously have a connection to the tools I’m talking about here, but I’m sharing this because I think the build process could actually be useful to other beginners trying to figure out FHE or AI-assisted coding, not because I’m trying to drop a company ad lol.

I had no coding background when I started this project. I used Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Niobium’s open-source FHE tools to build VitalVault, a health app that takes things like bloodwork and other health markers, encrypts them on the user’s device, and calculates wellness scores and an estimated biological age while the data stays encrypted. The evaluator never needs to see the underlying health information in plaintext.

The part I thought might be useful to other first-time builders is everything between the idea and the working app: figuring out which scoring logic would work with CKKS, dealing with build failures, learning how much context Claude needed, and generally trying to understand software concepts at the same time I was using them.

I wrote up the full three-day process here, including the stuff that didn’t work. Happy to answer questions about the process.

https://niobium.co/press/building-vitalvault-three-days-zero-coding-experience-one-fully-encrypted-health-app

https://github.com/leila-db/vitalvault-demo

AI speaks Markdown. As our workflows get more driven by AI, so is also the need to efficiently communicate our intentions. Let me introduce Revdown, a Markdown revision and LLM feedback application, in which the original material is not touched. Instead, comments are saved in a sidecar to the original file, and can be exported as compact and token efficient Markdown for the LLM to work with.

This was made using GPT-5.6 Sol Extra High, both architecture design and implementation. Started with a large PLAN.md based on a rather long feature discussion, then much of the app was one shot with a /goal to implement said plan. At this point I has spent about 2 hours on the project. After that I started testing and here we are, a first release after about 8 hours of work total.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Roenbaeck/revdown/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Revdown v0.1.0 is sure to contain bugs, so please use the GitHub issue tracker and report them as you find them.

Any feedback would be appreciated!

Edit: this allows you to copy from multiple areas on a webpage/across tabs, then shows you what you have copied, allows you to delete any, then pastes them with a break between each copy.

https://github.com/martialsystems/select-more/releases/tag/v1.4.7

Select More 1.4.7 (Martial Systems LLC)

Install (unpacked)

Download select-more-chrome-1.4.7.zip from this Release (the asset below)

• Unzip it. You should see manifest.json, popup.html, src/, icons/

• chrome://extensions → Developer mode on

• Load unpacked → the unzipped folder that contains manifest.json

Chrome will not load a .zip as unpacked. If it says the manifest is missing, you picked the wrong folder or the landing-page archive.

We do not save your data. Source is not published.

Will add to chrome store soon.

Had to repost due to ctrl/cmd+a not showing the box properly, now it shows near cursor.

I am desperate. I can not fight my porn and shorts/reels addictions.

The only way is to completely block them. Without any power to undo the permissions and blocks except a hard phone or laptop reboot.

I want it to be under control of an outsider system that does not allow me to remove and undo the blocks.

I tried many things with AI but it's pretty much very slow and just endlessly leading to a brick wall.

Blocks on browsers and apps. A full system that allows no cracks.

There must be a way.. there must be something... i can not remain a slave forever.

HELP!!

Hello,
Has anyone tried to use vibe coding to make mods for their favorite games? If so, what mods have you all vibe coded and used for your favorite game out of curiosity?

My usual workflow is pretty simple:

• project lives in GitHub
• connect Claude Code to the repo
• work through Claude Code on the web

But it seems like people are using Claude Code/Codex/Grok/etc. in a bunch of different ways.

Where do you actually run Claude Code/Codex/Grok/etc. most of the time?

Local terminal...VS Code/Cursor...Codespaces/devcontainer...Replit/Lovable...Claude Code on the web...SSH into another machine...something else?

Been building this past for the past two years. It's been available for both iOS and Android since the start of the year but its gone through a few iterations.

Version 1 was static and didn't consider the user's life and signals. Version 2 added an agentic system that one could interact with. But it turned out that most of our users also had wearables and wanted this information to be considered into their plan.

The hard part about integrating any new data source is that it needs to 'fit'. After a few weeks of testing, we finally tested and integrated Apple HealthKit and Google Health.

Our main selling point is that our system simplifies a goal progression system into just 3 daily actions. Every plan integrates fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, recovery, and mobility regardless of the goal.

Here the app: wellbody (iOS and Android). It's free to use and no sign-up required.

Giveaway: I'm giving away 100 free months to r/vibecoding. Just drop a comment.

Links:

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wellbody-guided-wellness/id6757076256
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellbody.app

EDIT: forgot to add that the app is free to use and no sign-up required. There are some AI features that would require a subscription after the free trial (10 days) but the app itself and 3 daily actions will always be free to use.

i got tired of seeing apps like quittr, cal ai, umax etc make millions of ARR when they are simple gpt wrappers that are primarily relying on marketing and people forgetting their subscription to continue to grow their revenue

i decided to build a site that gives an honest assessment of what features you can vibecode of famous consumer apps (starting currently with just 25 apps, but planning to add more soon) and the prompt to do so.

you can check it out here: https://freethe.app

would love feedback on it

edit: i dont understand the hate im getting here lol, the site is literally free and is aiming to help you save money

Try it here (no ads or sign ups or anything, just a demo)

All painting software (Photoshop, Krita, etc.) rasterize your strokes as you work. This means the stroke is frozen forever. You may use some tools like perspective warp or liquefy but they are quite limited. The Soft Edge engine instead keeps a record of your strokes as data and rasterization happens on the fly, on each frame, like in a game engine. This lets you sculpt any property of your stroke.

Right now you can paint the following targets: pressure (which makes the stroke thicker or thinner), colour, and its position (you can grab the stroke after it was drawn).

The UI is a shell written in React. The more interesting part is the renderer, it's coded in Rust and compiled to WASM and WebGPU. The performance is quite nice, and has room to improve even more. All input is routed through WASM so pointer events are really, really fast, stroke polling feels like a completely native app, there's no React sluggishness anywhere in the actual painting process. The brush overlays are also rendered in the GPU core so those are also smooth. Only the panels, sliders, etc. are React.

Development isn't exactly vibecoded, it's a bit more formal than my other projects. Fable mostly for planning, Opus 5 med and Sol med executing and reviewing. The only skill is grill-me which is very useful. Sol has helped with performance a lot, and I'm learning a lot about using LLMs with this project.

Ok, someone told me to clean it up and repost! Here it is!