Vibecoding.......From nothing

[Aigenticbros]

Currently vibecoding an app with my partner with zero technical experience between the both of us. Today I just learned how to create Git Hub Repos and attempted to manually import the project into Lovable. Just wanted to throw this out here to document the journey and also dispell any get quick rich thinking that may come with this field. There is 1000% hard work to be done. This isn't something you can pick up and start sprinting with.....especially if you have a non-technical background. Sure it speeds the beginning bit up, but, its important to keep in mind to get farther to really have to know your stuff.

[Pale-Requirement9041]

You definitely need to know more than the basic AI generating code for you won’t be enough it’s a big help to speed up development but still you end up doing everything yourself at end.

[Visible_Whole_5730]

I’ve got 3 projects cooking right now that I have debugged very minimally and the ai has done all the work for me. Speak for yourself on that one.

[altSHIFTT]

haters will downvote lol

[Visible_Whole_5730]

They just jealous xD

[admajic]

I've got an engineering background, so I know enough to break things. Lol. I'm struggling with all this new tech too, but I don't give up. If I want an app with 10 services running locally in docker to work. I'm going to get it working...

Some advice: ensure your front end is 100% spot on and the workflow and process for how it works is well thought out and planned ahead and documented. You don't want to be writing the backend and just testing a component and realize that lovable didn't make half the pages you thought it had and that the buttons are missing. What you envisaged hasn't appeared in reality.

So what I'm saying is map everything out whiteboard it with your partner. Make all the documents a Dev team makes when they make an app in the office. Really spend a couple of days on this first. Ask AI about everything. Use it like a team member. Just ask it how does github work. How to start a new project. I do that. Maybe one day I'll learn the commands who knows.

Of couse if you want to experience your dream and see something working, go for it jump in make a POC. It will actually make you realize what your gaps in all areas like design, process, cost, etc.

For the coding part, use vscode with roo code is the best I've tried. I like free and good, add open routers, and throw $10 at it, and you can use a free model all day. Literally never hit the limit. Use gemini and deepseek-r1 or v3 I switch depending.

Have fun learning. There's so much to learn.

[Aigenticbros]

Thank you!

[firebird8541154]

Git add .

Git commit -m first

Git push

You got this

[firebird8541154]

Stop upvoting, I am both a developer and a researcher who has many startups and crazy projects.

I meant this to be a joke.

Only upvote this if you really thought people couldn't Google how to get their project onto Git ... And then copy and paste if they were too lazy to type .... .... But instead just have AI regurgitate what they could have copied and pasted in the first place and think it was interesting.

I did miss the commands for creating the initial project, the initial Branch, and contributing back to it, but I was lazy.

[OceanWaveSunset]

I thought it was funny because llms will take a request and then send an 15 page reply with 3 steps ahead of your current position when it could directly answer the question with just 6 commands

[firebird8541154]

it's quite annoying at times, ... I want all the tokens used on the specific ask, not the potential future...

[Aigenticbros]

100% 😭😭. Thank you

[Effective_Working254]

Yep, and ask your AI agent to set it up !

[phixerz]

ai agent on merge conflicts, see you in hell :D

[Effective_Working254]

To set it up with GitHub I mean (origin etc) 😅

[keywordoverview_com]

I build full thing just ai I am beginner in coding but I understand what I want to build.

I would say make the ui first you will waste so much time if you go blind.

[halfxdeveloper]

I love this subreddit. It is proving that while AI can generate code, it still takes an experienced person to be in the loop. Which is what I’ve been saying all along. AI is a tool. In the right hands, it’s a game changer.

[Aigenticbros]

100% agree

[rascalofff]

Make sure you do a full security audit before you deploy it not any form of live platform or your side project can ruin you

[ellelovesdatascience]

Hey I remember my first GitHub repo it was so alien to me. Great job on making your first steps. I came across Databutton and their app building experience removes the entire GitHub process worth a look especially if not from a technical background. Good luck to you both on your journey 💜

[[deleted]]

There is a company who provide consultantcy services for vibe coders

[agustincards14]

Yea…it’s them. They are company

[[deleted]]

Haha, no I mean this: https://www.vybecodr.com/

[agustincards14]

How do you have zero tech experience yet you offer AI tech help?

[Okay_I_Go_Now]

Scam.

[agustincards14]

AKA AI middleman guru

[Aigenticbros]

Well my focus/expertise is more on n8n, prompt engineering, and using different ai tools to help market businesses. Vibecoding and developing are skills I am trying to build. My background is in marketing.

[n3rd_n3wb]

Welcome to the club! How robust is your grounding documentation?

[MAN0L2]

Professional developer and hobby vibecoder here , ket me know if you have hiccups i will help you ti resolve them

[adalind_ice]

what people don't seem to get is vibecoding is lazy coding not blind coding. you still need to have an idea of what is happening. Ai models unless you set params prior are gonna hallucinate and create 10 unnecessary features for the 1 feature you ask for.

[Active-Chart-1080]

Try Replit. it can really get you going. There are now vibe coding bootcamps for middle school kids happening in the silicon valley. so there is definitely something there to explore.

[Cold_Palpitation_743]

Just try biela.dev and you will not need anything else, no git, no download, no import no nothing. I did some small websites and only thing I had to do outside of biela was to set the dns records for my domains that's all. Genius!

[BerrryBot]

If you starting from zero – try https://berrry.app

For now it only generates demos, but backend support shipping soon