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I replaced my premium workout app with vibecode

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I was going through my app subscriptions and realized I was paying $15 for a pretty good workout app, which seemed a bit high to me.As a software engineer who is also well versed in claude code, I realized that I could likely vibecode a very similar app, or even build something more to my liking. I challenged my self to build something roughly equivalent this afternoon.Workflow was: start with a detailed spec from Claude code describing many of the features common in workout apps. Then paste this into lovable to have it build out the initial mvp.Once that was built, I used claude code extensively to modify the app until it was usable, including adding an import from the costly premium app.While there are bugs, I think I might use this app. And it is insane that we are in a place where I can build this on my phone during an afternoon. In a few years, the economics of apps is going to be different, at least for folks willing to work a little bit.In theory this project will save me over $190 a year.

HN · launched Dec 8, 2025 · 9 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views

Niche: fitness and health trackers · 434 launches, 41 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The author explicitly describes vibe-coding this workout tracking web/mobile app to replace a paid subscription, which is standard CRUD and local state management.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 294 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #144 of 295 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 39 days after the earliest competitor.

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