Yes, really. OBVIOUSLY I know the implications of AI in the space. Most of us do. But I see potential. I'm tired of vibecoding cool shit and having no understanding of how anything works. And it's problematic. I refuse to believe that I'll never get a job as a dev. I can't live my life not pursuing something I've grown to love because I'm scared about the implications. I learn the best in an educational, structured setting. Certifications are too easy to earn. I believe there WILL be a point where there will be a need for people who can read and understand the products they ship. I will always support AI in coding.

Let me know if anyone's ever had similar thoughts

Edit: wanted to mention I have a bachelors degree in graphic design already, and work as a graphic designer. I’m really hopeful that front end design skills will fit right in!

Last week a developer rebuilt the Adobe suite with AI and open-sourced it. It's called ArtCraft: free versions of seven Adobe apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere. Still not perfect, but people cared enough to try it.

Then I started noticing the pattern. We've already seen open-source alternatives to apps like Wispr Flow, CapCut, and Grammarly.

I might be too idealistic, since building software is different from maintaining, scaling, and securing it. But we're already heading that way, and we're only seeing the worst version of AI. What happens when it gets good at those things too?

Maybe people still pay for convenience, trust, and reliability. Maybe more people just build their own tools (Lovable and Replit already make that easy).

I don't have an answer yet. If you build or sell software, how are you thinking about this? If everyone becomes a builder, who remains the buyer?

thought the mvp was finally ready to ship until prod threw a 500 error because env vars were completely missing. spent an hour writing useless prompts before piping codex thru sumus to clean up the repo locally.

i swear i'm never deploying raw code again without proper checks.

Malicious npm packages, stolen API keys attacks on developers seem to be everywhere lately.Have you ever been hacked? How did it happen, how did you find out, and what did you lose?Curious to hear real stories.

More and more people skip Google and ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Gemini "what's the best tool for X?". AI gives 3 to 5 names. If it can't read your site, it fills those spots with your competitors.

I spent the last months digging into why AI names some products and not others. Most of the reasons are boring, fixable things on your own website. Here's the checklist, with a quick way to test each one.

Part 1: Can AI read you?

1. Let AI crawlers in. Open yoursite.com/robots.txt. Make sure you don't block GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot or ClaudeBot. Then check your CDN: Cloudflare has a setting that blocks AI bots, and some plans turn it on by default.

2. Serve real HTML. Test: open your homepage with JavaScript turned off (or curl yoursite.com). If the page is empty or says "loading", most AI crawlers see the same thing. They usually don't run JavaScript. Use server-side rendering or static pages for anything important.

3. Be in Bing, not just Google. Some AI search tools lean on Bing's index. Add your site to Bing Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap. Takes 5 minutes.

Part 2: Does AI understand you?

4. Say what you are in one line. "X is a [category] for [who]." On your homepage, in plain text, near the top. Clever taglines like "Work, reimagined" tell AI nothing.

5. Show pricing as text. Not an image, not "contact sales" only. "Cheap" and "free tier" questions are common, and AI can't answer them about you if it can't read your price.

6. Add structured data. Organization, SoftwareApplication (or Product) and FAQ schema. Test with Google's Rich Results Test.

7. Answer the questions your customers ask AI. Write the pages people search for: "X vs Y", "best tools for [job]", "alternatives to [big competitor]". Be honest in them; AI quotes pages that read like real comparisons, not ads.

Part 3: Does AI trust you?

8. Keep your facts the same everywhere. Your site, G2, Capterra, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Product Hunt. Same name, same category, same price. If they disagree, AI gets unsure and picks someone else.

9. Get on the lists AI cites. Ask Perplexity a question in your category and look at the sources. They're mostly "Top 10 tools for…" articles. Those are your targets: email the authors and ask to be added. Short, polite, with one real reason you fit.

10. Ask AI about yourself every week. Write down 10 to 20 questions your customers would ask. Ask them in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini every week. Track who gets named. It changes more often than you'd think.

Quick 1-minute test: ask ChatGPT "What does yoursite.com do?". If the answer is vague or wrong, start with points 1, 2 and 4.

Which of these have you already done? Curious what's worked for others, especially on getting into those "best tools" lists.

For anyone with experience handling DevOps with AI assistance, has your chosen AI coding tool been effective at dealing with load balancers, multi-node clustering and database read-replicas?

Do you expect such tasks to become more feasible and “hands-free” in the future?

Will be grateful to hear your thoughts

What would be your personal sign that AGI is actually here?

Zoom in from the whole Earth to any real city (or type in an address), pick how it ends, and watch the buildings blow apart into particles. Nukes, meteors, a black hole, or an Independence Day ship, plus a tornado if you want something slower. Enjoy!

I built this a few months back. I know there are other destruction sims out there, but this one is mine, and the buildings actually break which i think is neat. It's completely free and runs in your browser, on phone or desktop.

One thing I'd love feedback on: the whole city is plain grey, like an architect's model. Adding textures is possible, but there are trade-offs, mainly how smoothly it runs on phones. Does the grey look work for you, or would you rather see the real city with textures? Personally i like the minimalism.

https://altroadstudio.com/judgementday

Hey everyone!

I've been working on img2threejs for a while, primarily exploring how AI can turn visual references into editable 3D scenes.

Recently, I started experimenting with something different: What if we could apply a similar approach to 2D games?

That led me to build img2pixi2D, a new open-source plugin focused on transforming static images into interactive 2D experiences using PixiJS.

For this experiment, I started with a single pixel-art village image and tried to turn it into a small, playable RPG.

Here's what I managed to build:

• An explorable village environment
• Player movement and combat abilities
• Interactive NPCs and basic quests
• Environmental animations
• Desktop keyboard and mobile touch controls

The experiment consumed approximately 280K AI tokens.

One thing I particularly wanted to explore was going beyond visual reconstruction.

Recreating the image is one challenge. Making the environment interactive, implementing gameplay mechanics, and ensuring everything works together is a completely different problem.

The result is still a small prototype, not a complete game, but I think it's an interesting direction for AI-assisted game development.

I'm curious what other game developers think about this approach.

Would you find a workflow like this useful for prototyping 2D games? What would you improve or prioritize next?

What character or image do you want to see next, I'll see how many waves they can survive. You can play the game for free https://coyne-studios.itch.io/ares-outpost , also available on the App Store!

Hey everyone,

I've been working as a web developer for about 15 years now, and for almost 10 of those I've also been working with a marketing agency.

Over time, I learned a lot about how SEO actually works, not just from the technical side, but also from the people doing SEO and marketing every day.

About a year ago, we started building something called RankFlow.

The main idea was to put everything we normally use for SEO and content management into one place, instead of switching between a bunch of different tools.

So far, we've built keyword research, competitor analysis, SEO opportunities, content strategies, AI article generation, content optimization, internal linking, automated publishing, Google Search Console integration, and website audits.

We also added some other things along the way, like an AI chatbot, landing page and website builders, Google Business Profile management, WooCommerce integrations, and AI product photography.

It's grown into a much bigger project than we originally planned 😅

We currently have 23 websites using RankFlow, so it's already being used on real projects.

I've included a 13-minute video walkthrough showing what we've built so far and how it all works. It's a bit long, but there's quite a lot to cover.

We're still actively working on it, fixing things, adding features, and trying to make the whole process easier.

Registration isn't open yet, but we do have a waitlist for anyone interested. We're still finalizing a few things, including pricing, before opening it up to everyone.

People who join the waitlist will get an additional discount when we launch. We're also planning to offer a short trial, probably around 7 days with limited access, so people can explore the platform and see how it works before making any decisions.

We'll let everyone know once everything is ready.

Feel free to be critical. I'm especially interested in hearing your honest opinions about the project.

Social: rankflow.works | instagram.

This is my current ranking for going from a prompt to a deployed app:

1. Replit Agent: builds, hosts and deploys, database included.
2. Lovable: polished full-stack React apps with Supabase and GitHub sync.
3. v0: best-in-class Next.js UI generation with one-click Vercel deploys.
4. Bolt.new: everything runs in the browser (WebContainers), zero setup.
5. Cursor: for when the vibe needs real engineering control.

My logic: for most people the hard part isn't generating code, it's getting a working app hosted with a database. That's why the all-in-one option ranks first. But if you care most about UI quality, v0 or Lovable could easily come first.

What's your #1, and what did you ship with it?

I am venturing into a multi app project in which I would like to achieve near-perfect UI consistency across the apps, built as standalone Lovable projects.

Is it possible to apply the same identical UI across many apps or will it always be “approximation” due to the nature of AI?

Zoom in from the whole Earth to any real city (or type in an address), pick how it ends, and watch the buildings blow apart into particles. Nukes, meteors, a black hole, or an Independence Day ship, plus a tornado if you want something slower. Enjoy!

I built this a few months back. I know there are other destruction sims out there, but this one is mine, and the buildings actually break which i think is neat. It's completely free and runs in your browser, on phone or desktop.

One thing I'd love feedback on: the whole city is plain grey, like an architect's model. Adding textures is possible, but there are trade-offs, mainly how smoothly it runs on phones. It's a look im trying in other projects too. Does the grey look work for you, or would you rather see the real city with textures? Personally i like the minimalism.

https://altroadstudio.com/judgementday

I changed the workflow of Vibe Games Studio, to run many more iterations on the same games. The results speak for themselves. Much better graphics and animations, but also more 'cohesiveness' then before with games really getting a specific look and feel.

Have a look and tell me what you think, your input may change the future of this studio. Mind you these games are not finished yet, not all the content is there yet. Vibegames Studio

I highly recommend 'Hellcat Fury'.

Play it here (desktop, keyboard and mouse):

https://hearthworks-chi.vercel.app

I play Deadlock and the queue and loading downtime was killing me, so I wanted something to play on my second monitor between matches. Five minute runs, WASD to move, aimed spells, a boss at the end. I'm a former personal trainer turned indie dev. I don't write any of the code myself; I direct, playtest and make the calls.

The process

1. First attempt was an idle game, and it was bad. Claude wrote a design doc, built it, deployed it. I played it once and said "really unfun, I need something that takes all my attention." Scrapped the same day. Lesson: between matches I want to be locked in, not watching numbers go up.
2. Pivot to a survivors game, plain shapes only. Before any art, we built the feel: movement, an auto missile, Fireball on Q, Frost Nova on E, Blink on right click, a boss at 4:00. Capsules and spheres. I played, gave blunt notes ("screen jerks every step", "a massive blob formed and I was underwhelmed with my powers", "infinite map is boring"), and it got fixed and redeployed each round. First time I beat it: 5:09, "funny hard and fun."
3. Only then, art. Higgsfield for concept images, then Meshy 7 (through Higgsfield) to turn each concept into a 3D model, then auto rigging plus walk clips. The player mage, four enemy types, a Lich King boss, three props. The enemy walks got baked into vertex animation textures so hundreds of them animate on screen cheaply.
4. Audio. ElevenLabs for about 60 sound effects plus a run track and a boss track. Claude also built an in-game sound lab (F9) so I can audition pickup and level-up sounds live and pick the most addictive one.
5. Map and VFX. A walled moonlit courtyard with real shadows, braziers and fog, a free CC0 stone floor from Poly Haven, then a full particle kit for every spell and enemy.
6. Design doc, then build in stages. I dumped every idea I had (evolutions, combos, meta progression, UI) into a brief. Claude turned it into a versioned design doc, I approved it, and it was built in five stages: spell evolutions (Inferno, Absolute Zero), synergies, a scripted five minute difficulty curve, a two-phase boss, icon slots, a results screen, an unlock shop and achievements.
7. Playtest, break it, fix it. I found a cheese: twin missiles + Pierce + Power + Haste let me win standing still in the middle. Claude wrote a bot that stands still and turreted, made "this bot must lose" an automated test, then nerfed until it did. Latest round it got "insanely hard" (I'm dying at around 4:12 with 1,600+ kills), so instead of nerfing enemies we gave the player better defence: Blink now explodes where you land and the orbiting runes block enemy projectiles.

How the AI side was set up

• One main Claude Code session (Opus) acted as lead: wrote specs, reviewed every change, ran the tests, checked the game in a browser and deployed.
• Each build stage went to a separate Claude subagent (Sonnet) working from the written spec.
• Every deploy is gated: type check, then all tests, then build, then deploy. Once, a failing test slipped through because of a sloppy shell command; after that nothing ships unless the tests pass.
• Balance is tested with bots that actually play the game: a "park in the middle" bot that has to lose and an "active player" bot that should reach the boss.
• All design docs, decisions and session logs live in my Obsidian vault, so the next session picks up where the last one stopped.

Tools

Costs (for this game only)

The subscriptions themselves run about $139 a month, but I use them across all my projects, not just this one.

By the numbers: about 2 days from the first commit to now, 79 commits, about 19k lines of TypeScript plus 9k lines of tests, 724 automated tests, 11 MB download.

What I'd tell another vibecoder

• Prototype the feel with grey boxes before spending a single credit on art. The idle game would have burned art money on something I hated.
• Play it yourself and give short, blunt, specific notes. "Screen jerks every step" got fixed faster than any long description would have.
• Make your AI write tests for the feel bugs and the exploits you find, so they never come back.
• Versioned design docs (v1, v2, v3, v4) kept the scope from drifting every time I had a new idea.
• Meshy through Higgsfield was fine for 9 models. If I were mass producing models, I'd get a Meshy subscription directly instead.

It's hard. Tell me how long you last and what killed you.

EDIT (Oct 14): update based on your comments

Thanks for all the feedback. 120+ people played the first night, one person did 33 runs in a row, and a couple of you beat the Lich King on Hard. Here's what's new since the post:

• Normal and Hard. New players start on Normal. The original tuning is now Hard and pays more Embers. Switch with T or the Difficulty tile in Run setup.
• Controller support. Plug in a pad and play: left stick moves, right stick aims, triggers cast. Every menu works with the pad.
• Mobile. Phones can play now. Landscape, floating move stick, tap a spell to quick cast or drag to aim. It ships with lower graphics settings, and you can change them in Settings. Tell me how it runs on your phone.
• Camera. It pans ahead when you move south (moving down was scary), and it shows less void at the walls.
• New graphics settings on desktop too: shadows, resolution, frame rate.

Next up, from your comments: readability (dimmer effects so enemy bolts stand out, runes that don't look like bullets), HUD closer to the middle, a clearer heal when you kill the gold elite, and seeing your build while you pick a card.

Also coming: a melee hero, the Spellblade, with his own spells, evolutions and a metal soundtrack.

Truly impressive his knowledge on technology.

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie developer working on Rollabop, a physics-based matching puzzle game for Android, and I'm looking for more closed beta testers!

First, a big THANK YOU to everyone who has already joined and helped support the game. ❤️

🛠️ Latest Rollabop Update

A new update has been submitted to Google Play for review!

Rollabop currently features 20 playable levels, with more being developed. I'm continuing to improve gameplay, physics, controls, and overall stability based on testing.

I'm especially interested in feedback about:

Crashes or problems on different Android devices

Touch and drag controls

Performance and smoothness

Level difficulty and balance

Anything confusing or not working correctly

🧭 Something Special for Beta Testers!

I'm currently creating a limited-edition Pioneer Ball, an exclusive collectible designed to thank the people who helped Rollabop during its early development!

The Pioneer Ball will feature a beautiful animated compass and its own unique sound effects.

My goal is for this to be a beta-testers-only collectible, permanently available in your Collection as a reminder that you helped bring Rollabop to life!

It's still being developed, and I'll share more details as it gets closer to release.

📱 How to Join the Rollabop Closed Test

Step 1: Join our Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/rollabop-beta-testers

Step 2: Join the Google Play closed test:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lippyrobotics.rollabop

Step 3: Opt in and install Rollabop through Google Play.

After playing, please share your Android device model and any feedback, positive or negative. It all helps!

🤝 I'll Test Your App Too!

If you're an Android developer looking for closed testers, I'm happy to help test your app in return.

Just leave your Google Group and testing links in the comments!

Thank you for supporting Rollabop! I'm building this game with a lot of care, and having real people play it and share their experiences means more than you might realize.

Let's help each other get our apps launched! 🚀

— Lippy Robotics Labs

I recreated Age of War in full 3D using AI-assisted development.

Same classic gameplay, but in 3D.

Play it: https://age-of-wars.vercel.app/

Curious what you think!

It’s still a work in progress but I released this today and have a working backend. I started a discord for builders and this allows everyone to claim a room and display their work within the game instead of it being a wall of text in a discord channel.

Open to any feedback on how to improve this or what would be cool for a discord community.

I plan to make it multiplayer with most likely some kind of ranked system. The game will be free to play with some in game cosmetic items. There won't be any pay to win aspects.

I want real feedback about graphics/gameplay, would help me a lot.

https://vengeful180-dot.github.io/Need4Space/