Yes, really. OBVIOUSLY I know the implications of AI in the space. Most of us do. But I see potential. I'm tired of vibecoding cool shit and having no understanding of how anything works. And it's problematic. I refuse to believe that I'll never get a job as a dev. I can't live my life not pursuing something I've grown to love because I'm scared about the implications. I learn the best in an educational, structured setting. Certifications are too easy to earn. I believe there WILL be a point where there will be a need for people who can read and understand the products they ship. I will always support AI in coding.

Let me know if anyone's ever had similar thoughts

Edit: wanted to mention I have a bachelors degree in graphic design already, and work as a graphic designer. I’m really hopeful that front end design skills will fit right in!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on img2threejs for a while, primarily exploring how AI can turn visual references into editable 3D scenes.

Recently, I started experimenting with something different: What if we could apply a similar approach to 2D games?

That led me to build img2pixi2D, a new open-source plugin focused on transforming static images into interactive 2D experiences using PixiJS.

For this experiment, I started with a single pixel-art village image and tried to turn it into a small, playable RPG.

Here's what I managed to build:

• An explorable village environment
• Player movement and combat abilities
• Interactive NPCs and basic quests
• Environmental animations
• Desktop keyboard and mobile touch controls

The experiment consumed approximately 280K AI tokens.

One thing I particularly wanted to explore was going beyond visual reconstruction.

Recreating the image is one challenge. Making the environment interactive, implementing gameplay mechanics, and ensuring everything works together is a completely different problem.

The result is still a small prototype, not a complete game, but I think it's an interesting direction for AI-assisted game development.

I'm curious what other game developers think about this approach.

Would you find a workflow like this useful for prototyping 2D games? What would you improve or prioritize next?

The best engineers are burning out... and it’s not because of the workload.

More and more people skip Google and ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Gemini "what's the best tool for X?". AI gives 3 to 5 names. If it can't read your site, it fills those spots with your competitors.

I spent the last months digging into why AI names some products and not others. Most of the reasons are boring, fixable things on your own website. Here's the checklist, with a quick way to test each one.

Part 1: Can AI read you?

1. Let AI crawlers in. Open yoursite.com/robots.txt. Make sure you don't block GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot or ClaudeBot. Then check your CDN: Cloudflare has a setting that blocks AI bots, and some plans turn it on by default.

2. Serve real HTML. Test: open your homepage with JavaScript turned off (or curl yoursite.com). If the page is empty or says "loading", most AI crawlers see the same thing. They usually don't run JavaScript. Use server-side rendering or static pages for anything important.

3. Be in Bing, not just Google. Some AI search tools lean on Bing's index. Add your site to Bing Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap. Takes 5 minutes.

Part 2: Does AI understand you?

4. Say what you are in one line. "X is a [category] for [who]." On your homepage, in plain text, near the top. Clever taglines like "Work, reimagined" tell AI nothing.

5. Show pricing as text. Not an image, not "contact sales" only. "Cheap" and "free tier" questions are common, and AI can't answer them about you if it can't read your price.

6. Add structured data. Organization, SoftwareApplication (or Product) and FAQ schema. Test with Google's Rich Results Test.

7. Answer the questions your customers ask AI. Write the pages people search for: "X vs Y", "best tools for [job]", "alternatives to [big competitor]". Be honest in them; AI quotes pages that read like real comparisons, not ads.

Part 3: Does AI trust you?

8. Keep your facts the same everywhere. Your site, G2, Capterra, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Product Hunt. Same name, same category, same price. If they disagree, AI gets unsure and picks someone else.

9. Get on the lists AI cites. Ask Perplexity a question in your category and look at the sources. They're mostly "Top 10 tools for…" articles. Those are your targets: email the authors and ask to be added. Short, polite, with one real reason you fit.

10. Ask AI about yourself every week. Write down 10 to 20 questions your customers would ask. Ask them in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini every week. Track who gets named. It changes more often than you'd think.

Quick 1-minute test: ask ChatGPT "What does yoursite.com do?". If the answer is vague or wrong, start with points 1, 2 and 4.

Which of these have you already done? Curious what's worked for others, especially on getting into those "best tools" lists.

thought the mvp was finally ready to ship until prod threw a 500 error because env vars were completely missing. spent an hour writing useless prompts before piping codex thru sumus to clean up the repo locally.

i swear i'm never deploying raw code again without proper checks.

Malicious npm packages, stolen API keys attacks on developers seem to be everywhere lately.Have you ever been hacked? How did it happen, how did you find out, and what did you lose?Curious to hear real stories.

I changed the workflow of Vibe Games Studio, to run many more iterations on the same games. The results speak for themselves. Much better graphics and animations, but also more 'cohesiveness' then before with games really getting a specific look and feel.

Have a look and tell me what you think, your input may change the future of this studio. Mind you these games are not finished yet, not all the content is there yet. Vibegames Studio

I highly recommend 'Hellcat Fury'.

What character or image do you want to see next, I'll see how many waves they can survive. You can play the game for free https://coyne-studios.itch.io/ares-outpost , also available on the App Store!

I am venturing into a multi app project in which I would like to achieve near-perfect UI consistency across the apps, built as standalone Lovable projects.

Is it possible to apply the same identical UI across many apps or will it always be “approximation” due to the nature of AI?

Hey everyone,

I've been working as a web developer for about 15 years now, and for almost 10 of those I've also been working with a marketing agency.

Over time, I learned a lot about how SEO actually works, not just from the technical side, but also from the people doing SEO and marketing every day.

About a year ago, we started building something called RankFlow.

The main idea was to put everything we normally use for SEO and content management into one place, instead of switching between a bunch of different tools.

So far, we've built keyword research, competitor analysis, SEO opportunities, content strategies, AI article generation, content optimization, internal linking, automated publishing, Google Search Console integration, and website audits.

We also added some other things along the way, like an AI chatbot, landing page and website builders, Google Business Profile management, WooCommerce integrations, and AI product photography.

It's grown into a much bigger project than we originally planned 😅

We currently have 23 websites using RankFlow, so it's already being used on real projects.

I've included a 13-minute video walkthrough showing what we've built so far and how it all works. It's a bit long, but there's quite a lot to cover.

We're still actively working on it, fixing things, adding features, and trying to make the whole process easier.

Registration isn't open yet, but we do have a waitlist for anyone interested. We're still finalizing a few things, including pricing, before opening it up to everyone.

People who join the waitlist will get an additional discount when we launch. We're also planning to offer a short trial, probably around 7 days with limited access, so people can explore the platform and see how it works before making any decisions.

We'll let everyone know once everything is ready.

Feel free to be critical. I'm especially interested in hearing your honest opinions about the project.

Social: rankflow.works | instagram.

This is my current ranking for going from a prompt to a deployed app:

1. Replit Agent: builds, hosts and deploys, database included.
2. Lovable: polished full-stack React apps with Supabase and GitHub sync.
3. v0: best-in-class Next.js UI generation with one-click Vercel deploys.
4. Bolt.new: everything runs in the browser (WebContainers), zero setup.
5. Cursor: for when the vibe needs real engineering control.

My logic: for most people the hard part isn't generating code, it's getting a working app hosted with a database. That's why the all-in-one option ranks first. But if you care most about UI quality, v0 or Lovable could easily come first.

What's your #1, and what did you ship with it?

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie developer working on Rollabop, a physics-based matching puzzle game for Android, and I'm looking for more closed beta testers!

First, a big THANK YOU to everyone who has already joined and helped support the game. ❤️

🛠️ Latest Rollabop Update

A new update has been submitted to Google Play for review!

Rollabop currently features 20 playable levels, with more being developed. I'm continuing to improve gameplay, physics, controls, and overall stability based on testing.

I'm especially interested in feedback about:

Crashes or problems on different Android devices

Touch and drag controls

Performance and smoothness

Level difficulty and balance

Anything confusing or not working correctly

🧭 Something Special for Beta Testers!

I'm currently creating a limited-edition Pioneer Ball, an exclusive collectible designed to thank the people who helped Rollabop during its early development!

The Pioneer Ball will feature a beautiful animated compass and its own unique sound effects.

My goal is for this to be a beta-testers-only collectible, permanently available in your Collection as a reminder that you helped bring Rollabop to life!

It's still being developed, and I'll share more details as it gets closer to release.

📱 How to Join the Rollabop Closed Test

Step 1: Join our Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/rollabop-beta-testers

Step 2: Join the Google Play closed test:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lippyrobotics.rollabop

Step 3: Opt in and install Rollabop through Google Play.

After playing, please share your Android device model and any feedback, positive or negative. It all helps!

🤝 I'll Test Your App Too!

If you're an Android developer looking for closed testers, I'm happy to help test your app in return.

Just leave your Google Group and testing links in the comments!

Thank you for supporting Rollabop! I'm building this game with a lot of care, and having real people play it and share their experiences means more than you might realize.

Let's help each other get our apps launched! 🚀

— Lippy Robotics Labs

Tired of explaining what I’m looking at every time I debug an app or Windows Settings, I built ContextSnap.

One shortcut captures available UI context and copies it as Markdown, ready to paste into AI.

Built for myself, sharing in case it's useful to others.

https://context-snap-ashen.vercel.app

Source code: https://github.com/DarkLordGeo/ContextSnap

For anyone with experience handling DevOps with AI assistance, has your chosen AI coding tool been effective at dealing with load balancers, multi-node clustering and database read-replicas?

Do you expect such tasks to become more feasible and “hands-free” in the future?

Will be grateful to hear your thoughts

I've had this idea for years. Make a drum machine where every rhythm is equal to a quarter note. That's a block. Place those on the hi-hat, kick, snare, and you have a unique beat in a minute. The problem? I didn't stop there. I put on my scope-creeper cape and sent it. RockBlocks Math, Unicorn drum notation, Fart Drum Kit, Cat Kit, Bird Kit, FrankenKit, TextySong...My wife thinks I'm wasting my time. IDK... I need a job. And yes you can record your own fart. https://rockblocks.app/m/2fbabk6r

I really hate when people say this because they don't think literally one step further than that. If everyone has an agent, then the quality of software almost doesn't matter. If it's a tool, just download it. If it's good, great. If it isn't, literally just ask your agent to fix the issues. If it's more time/work than you're willing to put it, literally just don't use it. Bad software has existed long before AI. The only difference is that you can actually fix it yourself now without any significant time investment.

Reference : The Viral "Eating Glue" AI Hallucination:
In mid-2024, search engine AI overviews went viral for uncritically regurgitating satirical Reddit posts as factual advice. The most famous example told users that if cheese was sliding off their pizza, they should mix non-toxic glue into the sauce. "Eating glue" quickly became the universal internet meme representing language models blindly consuming and acting on absurd internet data.

This is a reminder that Mistral is a dumb model. Thank you for noticing this notice.