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New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Vibe Coding Bundler – Bundle AI generated apps in a browser"

harrisreynolds — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:50:59 +0000

The goal here is to make it easy to bundle applications completely in a browser.

The primary use case is to support AI generated applications at run time.

For example: prompt an AI model to generate a full application including its package.json and all of the components as "files" and then using a virtual file system and import maps bundle it and run it.

This is a key piece of the puzzle for how a vibe coding platform would be built. Companies like Bolt.new have proprietary technology that runs node in a browser to handle this use case.

Which is very cool but not accessible to everyone.

I am not sure how Loveable does this... they may have a similar library to this one. I'd love to know if someone wants to share! :-)

This library was itself vibe coded using Claude code. This is my third attempt at this... the BIG key was really honing in on the exact requirements (LOL... that has always been the key right!?!).

I'd love some feedback if you have any. I am sure there may be some other option out there for this but I wasn't able to find any easy wrappers of esbuild-wasm myself that fully solved my use case.

Now I can go vibe code the full vibe coding platform!!

Show HN: Vibe Coding Bundler – Bundle AI generated apps in a browser

harrisreynolds — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/NimbleLabs/vibe-coding-bundler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885715

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by harrisreynolds in "The future of software development is software developers"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:54:44 +0000

People like experiences!

Plus those meals are disgusting! :-)

Plus plus… those meals are actually expensive!!

New comment by harrisreynolds in "The future of software development is software developers"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:04:21 +0000

I think "The Bitter Lesson" is relevant here [1].

This wave IS different.

It isn't a matter of "if" but "when".

I am a long-time software developer too... but I am strongly encouraging people to embrace the future now and get creative in finding ways to adapt.

There will always be demand for smart and creative people. BUT ... if you don't look up and look around you right now at some point you will be irrelevant.

Also see Ray Dalio's "Principles" book on embracing reality. A critical principle in the modern age of AI.

Nothing but love for my fellow developers!!

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Ask HN: I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what?"

harrisreynolds — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:52:08 +0000

WWCD?

https://chatgpt.com/share/695038c6-ffdc-8002-959e-773ac24ab2...

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Cursor Year in Review 2025"

harrisreynolds — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:42:04 +0000

I actually thought this was pretty boring. @Cursor team.... hit me up when you do your year in review for 2026 next year and I'll help you brainstorm something much more creative.

Great product though!!

Cursor Year in Review 2025

harrisreynolds — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:40:41 +0000

Article URL: https://cursor.com/2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404551

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Bible Both Ways – See how the Bible can justify any moral claim"

harrisreynolds — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:56:37 +0000

I tried again and got this:

https://biblebothways.com/claim/war-can-be-considered-accept...

So I guess the first submission was some kind of glitch.

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Bible Both Ways – See how the Bible can justify any moral claim"

harrisreynolds — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:53:45 +0000

I entered the topic of "going to war" and it did not return anything, but throughout history people have used the Bible as justification for going to war. And yet killing people is generally bad. Lots of nuances here but it seems like the system should have come up with something.

Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

harrisreynolds — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/github/spec-kit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211209

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg

harrisreynolds — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/mark-zuckerberg-sues-mark-zuckerberg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45138897

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:50:13 +0000

Yeah... the Posthog stuff is really funny! :-)

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:40:33 +0000

Yeah... I like this "Why you should not use Canine" section too.

I was just on Posthog's site this morning and saw a similar section...

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rky248hgutwzzkzwhifxz/posthog...

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Launch HN: Relace (YC W23) – Models for fast and reliable codegen"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 27 May 2025 21:05:56 +0000

Nice! I am currently writing a new version of my no-code platform, WeBase [1], to use AI to generate and edit applications.

Currently just using foundation models from OpenAI and Gemini but will be very interested to try this out.

My current approach is to just completely overwrite files with new updated version but I am guessing using something like Relace will make the whole process more efficient... is that correct?

I'll watch your video later but I would love to learn more about common use cases. It could even be fun to write a blog post for your blog comparing my "brut force" approach to something more intelligent using Relace.

[1] https://www.webase.com (still points to the old "manual" version)

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: Free Online Tool to Create Pretty Looking Charts"

harrisreynolds — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:28:24 +0000

This looks really nice. There is a pretty bad UX bug though... when I click export I can't see that anything happens. But if I scroll down I see there is a popup to export the chart. The popup really needs to be visible in the view pane so a user knows something is happening.

Great looking charts though!

What are you using to render the chart?

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: NimbleAI – Chat with multiple AI models and compare results"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:47:42 +0000

Yep. Just added Deepseek yesterday. The R1 model never returns output via the API so it is currently disabled, but you can access the V3 model even with the free version.

Deepseek has been having some issues recently: https://status.deepseek.com/

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: NimbleAI – Chat with multiple AI models and compare results"

harrisreynolds — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:36:03 +0000

Hey HN!! I'd love some feedback on this tool.

I built NimbleAI as a way to compare how different AI models work.

Currently it supports all of the usual suspects: o1, Gpt-4o, Claude 3.5, Llama 3.2 and Gemini 1.5. I also added support for Deepseek V3 recently (their R1 model seems down right now so it is not enabled).

The ultimate goal is to build agents that can leverage the best AI model for the job to complete more complex tasks, but to start I built a foundation for experimenting with multiple models.

You can also make chats or chat groups (comparisons) public. Here is an interesting one comparing Gpt-4o with Claude Sonnet 3.5:

https://www.nimbleai.co/app/chat-group/chat-group-training-m...

Thanks for checking it out!

Show HN: NimbleAI – Chat with multiple AI models and compare results

harrisreynolds — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:29:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nimbleai.co

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854221

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers"

harrisreynolds — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:58:48 +0000

My guess is that maybe the calendar issue is timezone related?!? That is where I'd start. I am in US central time.

New comment by harrisreynolds in "Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers"

harrisreynolds — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:38:40 +0000

This is nice! It looks like the pipeline is filling up! I signed up to launch NimbleAI [1] on your site.

One small issue with the launch date calendar. When I clicked a date in the calendar the popup with the actual launch date was always one day later. I wanted to launch on Tuesday, Jan 28, but when I picked that date it scheduled the launch for Wed, Jan 29.

BTW... what was the product you launched on PH that got buried??

Also... how funny would it be to launch ItsLaunched on PH and have it bubble to the top of PH! You should coordinate a launch on PH with all the users signed up for your new tool to get lots of votes. THAT would be awesome!

[1] https://www.nimbleai.co