u/Obvious_Electron

Stop making vibecoding sound like a shortcut for idiots

I keep seeing posts like "I vibecoded this over the weekend, got 100k users, what's next?" and I think it gives a pretty wrong idea of what vibecoding actually changes.

Sure, you can accidentally hit the top with another clock app. It happens.

But agents dont remove the actual work. You still need to figure out what to build, make 1000 small decisions, fix weird shit, make UX not suck, deploy, maintain, listen to users and actually ship something they want.

Vibecoding makes all of this faster. A LOT faster. But not easier at all.

You can now build faster, but also make mistakes faster and ship garbage faster. The bottleneck just moves somewhere else. There was a good line somewhere "Shipping everyday fixing Claude bugs".

Those "built in 2 days, 100k users lol" posts undermine all the work that still goes into a good product, and leave others thinking this is all somehow easy now. From outside it starts looking like vibecoders are just some arrogant assholes hitting a button and getting success by click. It doesn't work well on the how other people feel about vibecoders and vibecoding in general, which is in fact just a right way to do things today.

We don't build in assembly anymore, right? Same here.

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u/Obvious_Electron — 17 hours ago

Looking for feedback on UI and overall experience

Hey!

I've been working on a language learning app for myself. But it turned out to be a place to grow beyond that.

I'm a software engineer and moved to the UK a few years ago. And my English pretty sucks. I was trying numerous tools and apps. Each failed me differently. I had to find the way to build my language skills rapidly.

So I came up with this: https://linguin.xyz

Two main features right now:

  1. Dictionary. Look up any word or phrase.

You can feel it as a translator, but it's more about meanings, not just word to word. You, honestly, can barely find one word that means exactly the same in another language.

It can find rare words or slang by surfing the web as well.

  1. Talk. This one is what I'm using now on a daily basis.
  • Type a topic/context and a language. Start chatting.
  • Type or use your voice.
  • By the end you get a feedback on what went well, what was off, and what to work on.
  • You can talk in any language.
  • Get feedback/review in your UI language.
  • AI can reply with a voice in English, French, and Spanish for now.

Specifically curious about:

- Does the dictionary feel useful or is something missing out there?

- Does Talk actually work, voice included?

- UI, anything that feels off or confusing?

- Overall impression

I'd appreciate honest feedback. Really want to make it useful.

u/Obvious_Electron — 3 months ago