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I’ve taken to vibe coding little apps for my kids and hosting them at kids.samwho.dev. They love it. They’re all PWAs so they can look like apps on your home screen if you want. My eldest has loved self-scan at Tesco recently so I made a lil’ barcode scanner app for him 😁

27/10/26, 10:35 am0 reposts35 likes

ARez

@arezdev.de

Thats nice, but those are wonderful opportunities to code it yourself. Those apps are pretty basic so you shouldnt need an LLM for it. Go show your kids that they deserve the effort YOU put in (by hand) and not an LLM.

Pedro Braga

@mrpedrobraga.com

I'm glad _someone_ enjoys self-scan at Tesco.

Justin Abrahms

@justin.abrah.ms

I have had good luck with generating instructions to board games or utilities to visualize probability for the kid to help w group games.

Andreas Møller

@andreasmoller.dk

I pressed the 1000 app and only got 653. I want my money back

Sam Rose

@samwho.dev

You want the full 1000? In this economy?

Andreas Møller

@andreasmoller.dk

Ok, but at least 800? Unless it is a random number generator in which case it should be 7

Sam Rose

@samwho.dev

I hear 4 is popular atm.

Hosholoth

@hosholoth.bsky.social

This is really nice 😅

Randy Northrup

@randynorthrup.bsky.social

Do they work offline? A service worker that caches the app shell makes them survive car rides with no signal, which is exactly when kids reach for them.

Sam Rose

@samwho.dev

All apart from the barcode scanner, and that one could be made to work offline fairly easily.

Randy Northrup

@randynorthrup.bsky.social

The decode can stay on-device (BarcodeDetector where the browser has it, or a wasm decoder), so only the product lookup needs signal. Caching the few dozen barcodes he actually scans covers most trips.