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Posted by sungam 6 days ago

Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app(molecheck.info)
Coded using Gemini Pro 2.5 (free version) in about 2-3 hours.

Single file including all html/js/css, Vanilla JS, no backend, scores persisted with localStorage.

Deployed using ubuntu/apache2/python/flask on a £5 Digital Ocean server (but could have been hosted on a static hosting provider as it's just a single page with no backend).

Images / metadata stored in an AWS S3 bucket.

428 points | 259 commentspage 8
Kibranoz 6 days ago|
doing this in real dev could have taken similar time.
sungam 6 days ago|
For an experienced front end dev yes - for the average dermatologist no chance!
lvl155 6 days ago||
Dude, everything is “I am concerned.”
sungam 6 days ago|
The representation is skewed towards skin cancers at this time due to the image dataset I have used. In a future version I will make it 50:50
lvl155 6 days ago||
It would be cool if you can add wider angle vs close up. It’s really easy to miss spots in your back for example.
sungam 6 days ago||
Thanks for the suggestion I will do this if I can source the images
lvl155 6 days ago||
You can probably synthesize using AI.
rasengan0 6 days ago||
that was fun: Score: 6 / 7 (86%)
roggenbuck 6 days ago||
This is great!
asdev 6 days ago||
is this legal?
sungam 6 days ago|
Why wouldn't it be? The images are publicly available and have creative commons license.
FpUser 6 days ago||
I like the thing but ..

"Vibe coded" - asked ChatGPT or whatever alternative to do the thing for me. There is no fucking vibe here, just another cheesy term.

quantummagic 6 days ago||
Nice Job. This really highlights that people who obsess in telling us that "AI hallucinates", and "AI isn't intelligent", are missing the point. At the end of the day, it's simply useful, and incredibly empowering.
sungam 6 days ago|
Yes, without AI this app definitely would not exist as I would not have had time to make it. I think that this will apply to multiple other areas within the economy.
sky2224 6 days ago||
Another thing to add: developers don't have the time or don't want to spend time on apps like this, but it's not like this is anything complicated.

This app ultimately amounts to something that has been done millions of times, and so I think it's actually quite empowering for individuals to be able to quickly build mockups of apps like this for themselves without needing to spend upwards of $75/hr to hire some freelance dev to do it for them.

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