I was playing a popular browser game and realized I wanted to create a roller coaster, but every mechanic in the game was working against me. I realized the version of the game I wanted just didn’t exist, so I just cooked up prompt after prompt until it came together.

It’s called thoosie, a 2D roller coaster creation simulator! Draw coasters freehand, straight lines, or arcs. Add brake runs, barrel rolls/turnarounds, loops, and launches. You can also create “trigger” tracks - when the train crosses a section of track, other tracks are affected. While the game has obvious limitations, there’s no shortage of designs to try and experiments to run!

Create your track and save it as a json, and load in any track design you please. You can also post your coaster to the gallery - no accounts or auth, so your posts are anonymous.

The game engine does something really, really unique. *wink\* There are no graphics, it’s procedurally generated code. Music, however, was provided by some buddies who are good at that type of thing. It started with claude chat, but for a variety of reasons I decided to get the thing set up in a github repo and start working via claude code instead. It was just a lot of play testing and bug testing, which felt like it would never end.

Please try the game out and let me know what you think. thoosie.net or on itch - https://pgskizzes.itch.io/thoosie

We already know the basics of protecting API keys and sensitive credentials: never hardcode them in your source code, keep them in a .env file as environment variables, and add .env to your .gitignore so Git never tracks it and you don’t accidentally push your secrets to a public repo on GitHub.

What other practices do the engineers in this community use to prevent that scenario?

This is purely for discussion, so those of us who are non-technical can learn safe programming habits on our vibe-coding journey.

As many of you all have seen before, I've been vibe coding Pavement Pursuit, a 2D Top Down Racer.

I've just given it the biggest visual makeover and optimization in the form of smoothed road markings, shaders, shadows, and a finishing touch with normal maps.

I made a video showing the progress from prototype to where it is now.

This is honestly such a dream. With what AI can do nowadays, it feels like so much more is possible. Once this is working, one could even take it a step further and port it to the 3DS.

basically one shotted it using 320 agents and a 5080ti gpu.

BIG FREEZE IS SO COOKED.

ama.

The unprofitable SaaS I'm working on is AppScout a place for people to discover web apps, mobile apps, and websites from across the internet (this ain't ur unc's saas directory).

You can submit yours here: https://www.appscout.co/submit

(Full disclosure: I'm the creator of AppScout)

App Scout was Built with Django, Python, JavaScript, and Neon DB using VS Code and Claude Code. but mostly Claude Code

You can check it out at relic.space

Built my app in lovable over 2 weekends. Its a booking thing for dog groomers, around 140 people use it now and a few of them pay

Problem is i dont really know how most of it works. I know what it does. I dont know why the reschedule button lives where it lives or what happens when two people book the same slot, becouse i never wrote that part, i asked for it and it appeared

So now when a groomer emails me “the calendar is broken” i open the code and stare at it like its someone elses project. Half the time nothing is broken, she just didnt see the toggle. The other half i paste the error into lovable and hope

Last week was 4 evenings of support and maybe 40 minutes of building. Thats the ratio now. Nobody warned me that after you ship you basically become tech support for a stranger who happens to be you

Im starting to think i should read the whole codebase once like a book before adding anything else. Probably wont tho

https://github.com/archos-media/merge-coordinator

Are you working on your project and have Claude going in several sessions at the same time? After the code is done you have to run CI and then merge it to your Github repo (right?). But what happens if two or more of those sessions are working on the same files? Possibly bad things, that's what.

That's what happened to me so much that I had Claude make a tool to stop the sessions from crashing into each other and causing multiple rounds of CI or having a 2nd merge completely wipe the 1st merge. It sounds simple, but took a good bit of time before we landed on a solution that works. It worked so well for me that I wanted to open source it and share it with you guys, since this place has helped me out.

how it works:

1. Register: who is touching what, right now? A draft pull request opened when work starts, listing the paths it expects to touch.

2. Order: who lands next? What may land in parallel? Compares every open pull request's changed and declared files, plus your hotspots: files such as a changelog, where two pull requests that merge cleanly can still break each other.

3. Land: is this exact commit safe to merge? GitHub's merge queue where you have one. Where you don't, a claim: a label that lets one pull request land at a time, plus a check that its head contains the current main and its required checks passed on that exact commit.

So, my son and I have been making games on the weekends now for a few months....and they are getting better and better. He's 11 now, and I'm letting him run claude. I actually gave his claude instructions to give him feedback on his prompting, and it know's he's 11, so it explains things in not super technical ways. I also told his claude that if his instructions are not clear to not just do it. Instead, push back and make him give in-depth instruction on what he wants.

So far, he's doing really good. But...he loves "worldbox" and we created this game...that's pretty similar to it...with his own twist on the game.

https://pocketgenesis.com/

I also have locked his claude out of GitHub, so he can't really deploy stuff without me entering a password. So, he's somewhat airlocked in claude....but man, we're having fun!

if you wanna see more games we have made, check out https://www.minipotatostudios.com/

Left is a clay render of a Tripo 3D mesh, orbited in three.js. Right is Seedance 2.5 using that clay video as its camera reference.

Video models guess at camera moves from text. Handing it a previs instead got me the exact orbit and push in on the first try, and the robot kept its paint and its wind-up key.

Concept image 0.06, mesh 0.22, final shot 1.80, about 6 minutes in total, all called from Claude Code through the Atlas Cloud MCP server. The full chain and prompts are in the comments.

https://reddit.com/link/1xahcg7/video/3l41bpinhjwh1/player

A few days ago,

I posted about a free PDF editor package called Nib-E meant to replace Adobe Acrobat on my personal computer and a lot of people here gave some great feedback and asked for features.

I spent a few days improving based on the comments and feedback from my friends. Today, I updated it with most of the professional PDF editor tools in-built.

Naturally, it is free, and built to be privacy friendly (The desktop app never connects to the internet; the web version runs locally in your browser)

Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux

Webpage link: https://krithickdesign.github.io/Nib-E/
MS Store link: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PPKF7HC76Q3

New features added:

- Select and copy text with the Select tool, also on scans after text recognition.

- Forms: every field kind works (character boxes, dropdowns, lists, multi-line, Reset); typing on a field always fills it.

- Page layout button next to the zoom. Sharper icons.

- Edit existing text: click a line in the PDF and type. Font, size, colour and alignment stay the same.

- Digital signatures: sign with your own certificate (.p12/.pfx) and check the signatures in a PDF.

- Text recognition (OCR) makes scanned pages searchable.

- Print check for print shops: fonts, image sharpness, colours, bleed.

- Two-page view with title page, zoom slider, page-turn keys.

- More fonts, copy and paste, duplicate, alignment.

- Attachments and PDF portfolios, clearer messages for special PDF forms.

- Now in German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.

What should I add next?

As in the title. I used to be impressed by OpenAI, but not anymore. Which frontier LLM can reliably create amazing design/UI?

Hey All! I created this app recently and I'd love any thoughts or feedback. The idea is an anchored journal for any sort of project your working on using AI, so that rather than being dependent on a single chat, in a single AI coding agent, you can save to this tool. That way as you - change devices, AI coding agents, end goal, learn what doesn't work, make decisions, etc. : you can still have all of that saved in one spot for any AI tool to reference.

I've been using it as I've been vibe coding a bunch of projects for fun. I'm not how useful it would be for others, but I figured I'd through it out there. I'd love any thoughts! Even if it's as simple as- you could just do xyz for this and it'd be easier, I don't mind!

https://github.com/CorbinRandall/wolf-leader

And that’s a conservative estimate!

Hey! A couple weeks ago I posted roomio here (https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wz7y40/), a daily game where you answer a yes or no question and guess what % of everyone said the same. Almost everyone said one question a day is way too few lol, so I rebuilt it with claude and codex:

- 5 questions a day instead of 1

- you see how everyone answered right after each question, and it keeps updating as more ppl play

- you can answer tomorrow's five tonight, so tomorrow you go straight to guessing

Today's five include "is it ok to ban kids from your wedding?" and "have you ever bought a knockoff of a luxury brand?" How well can u read the room on those?

Free, no login, no download: https://playroomio.pages.dev/r

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback last time, it actually changed the game!! Does 5 a day feel better?

New ship added: Umbra

Free to play here: https://vengeful180-dot.github.io/Need4Space/

Mechanics are still evolving, and mobile performance is a work in progress.

Your feedback matters. It will shape where the game goes next.

Vibe coding didn’t make me a developer. It made me a manager of code I can’t read

Took me like 8 months to admit this to myself. I used to tell people I’m learning to code with AI, but I’m not learning to code, I’m learning to give instructions to something that codes and then trust its report. thats a manager, not a developer

And the weird part is I’m a decent manager. I write clear specs, I break stuff into small tasks, I know when to start a fresh chat becouse the context got messy. those are real skills. but a manager who cant read the work is basically just hoping the team is honest

Thats the part that gets me. when Claude says “done, everything works” I have no way to verify it except clicking around myself. I cant look at a diff and tell if it’s fine. I cant spot the shortcut it took. SO I’m approving work I dont understand from an employee who is very confident and sometimes very wrong

Real managers solve this with checks, not trust. they dont read every line either, they have reviews, metrics, some way to know when something goes off. I had none of that for months, my whole quality process was vibes and users emailing me

Started fixing it slowly, I make it explain changes in plain english before I accept them and I hooked up Kifas so my main flows run on every push and I find out before a user does. still cant read the code but at least I’m not managing blind anymore

I really really like football shirts.

Whenever I walk the street and spot someone with a football shirt I'm trying to recognize the team, and I always try to take a quick peek at the back of the person to see the name and number of the player.

When I was at Zanzibar last month, I saw people with football shirts from all over the world, and then the idea for the game hit me. It is like Hitster -- but for Football shirts.

The ideation and artwork were done using ChatGPT Sol and the actual web app was build using Lovable. What I basically did was to find some initial iconic shirts and play around with the design and artwork until it looked right to me. From there it was mostly manual scraping of shirts (with the help of ChatGPT for legendary teams), giving it to ChatGPT again for the design and updating the app.

I hope you give it a try and enjoy playing it. While I was working it, it really brought back some memories from 15-20 years ago, so I hope you get the same experience.

It's currently free. I am thinking of a premium plan for it once the gameplay is right and people will enjoy it and return for more.

Here’s the link to the game:
https://great-football-kit-sort-out.lovable.app

I'd appreciate your feedback so I can improve it.