With GSD, I was able to write 250K lines of code in less than a month, without prior knowledge of claude.

▲ tkiolp4 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That sounds awful.

I got a promotion once for deleting 250K lines of code in less than a month. Now that sounds better

	▲	prakashrj 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get it now. Hopefully the utility of it will eventually bring some value. Maybe Utility and corresponding LOC should help you assess my work. Since I didn't share what I have, I can see people getting alarmed at 250K lines of code.

▲ rsoto2 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I could copy 250k lines from github.

Faster than using ai. Cheaper. Code is better tested/more secure. I can learn/build with other humans.

▲ prakashrj 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is how I test my code currently.

  1. Backend unit tests — fast in-memory tests that run the full suite in ~5 seconds on every save.                                                                 
  2. Full end-to-end tests — automated UI tests that spin up a real cloud server, run through the entire user journey (provision → connect → manage → teardown), and
   verify the app behaves correctly on all supported platforms (phone, tablet, desktop).                                                                            
  3. Screenshot regression tests — every E2E run captures named screenshots and diffs them against saved baselines. Any unintended UI change gets caught            
  automatically.

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indigodaddy 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Check out exe.dev/Shelley web agent it facilitates much of what you describe by default.

	▲	dominotw 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		yea i am not going to checkout your shitty vibecoded project. Can we pls stop this.

▲ prakashrj 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was not a app developer before, but a systems engineer with devops experience. But I learnt a lot about apple development, app store connect and essential became a app developer in a month. I don't think I can learn so quickly with other humans help.

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icedchai 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You might be surprised. In 2008, when the App Store first came out, I became an iPhone app developer after reading one book. I already knew C, so Objective C wasn't a big leap.

Between my own apps and consulting work, I had a pretty good side business. Like everything else though, those days didn't last forever. But there was a lot of easy money early on.

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0x696C6961 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you lost access to AI would you be able to continue development on your app?

	▲	prakashrj 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Goal is to build something that will have value. Once it has value, I can hire a team or open source it, if AI ceases to exist in this world.

▲ wslh 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

250K? Could you expand your experience with details about your project and the lessons and issues you found?

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prakashrj 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A self-hosted VPN server manager: a TypeScript/Hono backend that runs on your own VPS, paired with a SwiftUI iOS/macOS app. It lets you provision cloud servers across multiple providers (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr), manage them via a Tailscale-secured connection with TLS pinning, and control an OpenClaw gateway.

I will open source it soon in few weeks, as I have still complete few more features.

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icedchai 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This does not feel like 250K lines of complexity. Have you looked at any of the code at all? You likely have mass duplication, copy-pasta everywhere.

	▲	prakashrj 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't look at code. In addition to code, I have CI and CD built in. I becomes hard add features after a while, if you cannot have built in CI/CD that will catch regression.

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tkiolp4 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please don’t.

	▲	prakashrj 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's good advice. I will only open source, if it has utility.

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prakashrj 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's important to build a local dev environment that GSD can iterate on. Once I have done that, I just discuss with GSD and few hours later features land.

▲ dominotw 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yes vibecoding is fun.