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I wanted to try vibecoding, so I decided to make a 100% vibe coded project: a HN-clone forum just for philosophical topics/questions and articles

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I am interested in building a forum. Hiw well did the vibe coding approach work for you vs just using something oof the shelf?

I work as a software engineer, so I was familiar with the stack I told the AI to build the forum with. Also, the forum was made specifically to see what vibecoding was like, so I didn't look for alternatives. But I'd say is working quite well code-wise.

Same. We have a very similar use case then. Did it handle user flows well? I'm talking about account validation, deactivation and recovery.

Or better, if the code is on GitHub, I would love to have a look.

Yes, the only issue I had to debug was the password hashing iterations being too much for the low resources of the VPS I was using. That made for logins and registration taking 2 seconds; other than that, smooth as butter. You can check the code at

https://github.com/nomai-tech/forum.philosofriends.com

Thank you! And django too! How convenient

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