I made an app full of bugs
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Vibe coding is great at producing bugs after all.
HN · launched May 11, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight HTML5 canvas / DOM toy project simulating clickable and flingable bugs is a quick frontend exercise that an LLM can write in an hour.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Random visual glitch (stray 's' character on screen), Performance issues at high bug counts (~150+)
Feature requests: Drag bugs out of the way in other apps, Bug count limit or performance optimization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 297 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #211 of 298 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built an app for vibe-coding games · hn · 2025-12-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- I made a website that vibe-codes itself · hn · 2025-11-04 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OpenBuilder: Open source alternative to Lovable · yc · 2025-11-09 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- gap-trap · github · 2026-09-13 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A delightful Mac app to vibe code beautiful iOS apps · hn · 2026-02-07 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) · hn · 2025-12-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- vibecheck · github · 2026-09-24 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- vibe_coding · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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