Vibe-Coded Software
I'm not a professional developer. These are tools I wanted to exist, so I described
them to an AI until they did. Everything here started as a real itch I had.
macOS
Current conditions, a seven-day forecast, and Clara — a friendly AI meteorologist
who briefs you each morning and answers whatever you ask. She doesn't just read
off the numbers: she draws on National Weather Service alerts and forecaster
discussions, and looks up what local TV meteorologists and news are saying about
your specific area, so her take feels like a local's, not a generic app's. Bring
your own Anthropic API key.
Files and folders you most need are more likely to be ones you've most recently accessed.
This is a Finder sidebar placed on the left edge of your screen which shows the last seven
days of files and folders you actually opened — newest first, grouped by day, each row
showing its parent folder and when you last touched it.
One plain-text note that lives in your menu bar. Click the icon, jot the thing down,
get back to what you were doing. It syncs through iCloud, so the note follows you
between Macs — no accounts, no formatting, no second note.
A love letter to 2002. An instant-messenger window of the sort you'd have left open after
school, wired up to a modern language model instead of the scripted bot we all tried to
outsmart. It answers better than the original ever did, which is either the point or
entirely beside it. Bring your own Gemini API key.
An AI-powered encyclopedia that lives in your Mac's menu bar. Hit a hotkey from any app,
ask about anything, and it streams back a proper reference entry — a concise definition,
a short answer, or a full article with a table of contents you can navigate. Bring your
own Anthropic or Gemini key.
iOS
Current conditions, a seven-day forecast, and Clara — a friendly AI meteorologist
who briefs you each morning and answers whatever you ask. She doesn't just read
off the numbers: she draws on National Weather Service alerts and forecaster
discussions, and looks up what local TV meteorologists and news are saying about
your specific area, so her take feels like a local's, not a generic app's. Bring
your own Anthropic API key.
Ignatian spirituality on your phone: more than twenty-five guided audio meditations,
podcast episodes, weekly Scripture reflections, and blog posts from the God In All
Things archive. There's also a guided Examen that listens to how your day actually
went and offers a Scripture passage to pray with. Downloads for offline listening.
It's 1958 and you're the telephone operator. Twenty-five sockets, a tangle of cords,
and a city full of people who need connecting. Patch each flashing red jack through to
its target before the caller gives up, then pull the dead lines to free the socket for
the next one. Every shift you survive comes at you faster than the last. Drop three
callers and your night is over.
Letters drift past in glowing bubbles. Tap to catch them, drag them into order in your
tray, and submit a word before the speed bonus drains away. Scoring is Scrabble-inspired,
so a six-letter word full of rare letters is worth far more than a quick three — if you
can hold your nerve long enough to build it. Ten words to a round.
A five-letter mystery word, two letters showing, and fifty points to spend. Buying a hint
costs you, revealing another letter costs more, and a wrong guess costs you too. The hints
are AI-written and start out poetic before turning into plain definitions, so the real game
is working out how little help you can get away with. Ten rounds, one score.