Vibes DIY
build log // since 2025-02-20

How Vibes DIY gets built.

It turns a sentence into a working app. Here are ten true things about the making of it — pulled straight from the commit history.

475
days of building
4,027+
commits
102
commits, busiest day
218K
lines of code
Ten facts from the build log

FACT 01
A sentence → an app.

You type an idea in plain English and get a real, interactive app you can use and share — no setup, no code, no install. That's the whole pitch, and everything below is what it took to make it true.

FACT 02
16 months

It's been building since day one.

The very first commit landed February 20, 2025. As of today that's 475 days of continuous building — the project has basically never stopped moving.

FACT 03
4,027+

Commits — about 8.5 every single day.

Including weekends. Roughly one meaningful change shipped every couple of waking hours, day after day, for over a year.

FACT 04
102 in a day

The busiest day was a blur.

On May 12, 2026, more than a hundred changes shipped in a single day — about one every fifteen minutes, around the clock.

FACT 05
218,000

Lines of code — novel-length.

For scale, that's longer than most novels — closer to War and Peace, written in software instead of prose.

FACT 06
🤖 + 🧑

Robots are on the team — and pull real weight.

Automated helpers — a dependency-updating bot and AI coding assistants — account for hundreds of contributions, quietly keeping everything patched and current alongside the humans.

FACT 07
Auto-saved

Your work saves itself.

Every app you make is stored automatically, so you can wander off, come back days later, and pick up exactly where you left off — nothing to remember to "save."

FACT 08
Remixable

Land on it, tweak it, make it yours.

You can take someone else's creation, change what you want, and run your own version — building on each other's ideas instead of starting from a blank page every time.

FACT 09
Real people

From genuinely interesting corners.

Contributors include festival and arts folks — and even K. Mike Merrill, the artist once known as "the publicly traded person," who famously sold shares of himself like a company.

FACT 10
Live edits.

When you edit an app, you watch it update in real time as you go. The gap between "I have an idea" and "I'm using it" shrinks to almost nothing — which, after 475 days and 4,027+ commits, is the whole point.

Add a commit of your own.

Type one sentence. Get a working app. The next interesting thing built here could be yours.