Comment by brainless

Comment by brainless 3 days ago

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I love what is happening in this domain, so many people experimenting. Thanks for sharing this.

I recently launched https://letsorder.app, https://github.com/brainless/letsorder.

100% of the product (2 web UI apps, 1 backend, 1 marketing site) was generated by LLMs, including deployment scripts. I follow a structured approach. My workflow is a mix of Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code or other coding CLI tools with GitHub (issues, documentation, branches, worktrees, PRs, CI, CodeRabbit and other checks). I have recently started documenting my thoughts about user flow with voice and transcribe them. It has shown fantastic results.

Now I am building https://github.com/brainless/nocodo as the most ambitious project I have tried with LLMs (vibe coding). It runs the entire developer setup on a managed Linux server and gives you access through desktop and mobile apps. All self-hosted on your cloud accounts. It would basically be taking an idea to going live with full stack software.

tantanu 3 days ago

just out of curiousity, I tried letsorder using the demo you provided. The QR code generation seems to work ok, and then using the table specific menu I tried to put in an order, and got HTTP500 for both the quick order and the other flow. this is entirely my own opinion and may not reflect your experience but this fits in with everything else I've seen that is LLM generated. It looks complete and works for the most part, except the most business critical part.

Maybe the ordering flow does work, but how much traction are you going to really get without the demo actually doing what it's supposed to?

Not trying to be snarky - just trying to understand if people actually pay for mediocre or low-quality products like these

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  • brainless 3 days ago

    You are not being snarky at all. I am sure the bug exists. There are a few out there and I still have not gotten to fix them.

    This is nothing to do with LLM generated. I work on about 4-5 projects at the moment, https://github.com/brainless. All of them are to test how far LLM driven development go. This, along with time to daily reach out to people, create posts, host lessons on vibe coding: https://lu.ma/user/brainless

    I will get these bugs sorted when I get some time. Let's Order is not a commercial project, it is an exercise to show what a solo founder can get done these days with LLMs.

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    • habinero 3 days ago

      I'm not sure you can call yourself a solo founder if you haven't actually founded a business. You kinda just put up a broken website.

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      • brainless 3 days ago

        So you mean to say you have never seen a founder launch a software that had bugs?

        And also, I am not selling Let's Order. I am selling vibe coding, building a product around it, content and coaching - and yes I have customers for this.

        I understand people getting mad. I am an engineer, 16 years of building products. I would be mad if I had a cushy job in the US which I felt is under threat from AI. I switched to vibe coding because I see the benefits for the rest of the world, which most engineers with cushy jobs never cared about. And there is money in this for someone like me, driving this solo from a life that is far away from VC funded startups.

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