Om Patel (@om_patel5)

SOMEONE VIBE CODED AN APP THAT TURNS YOUR IPHONE INTO A FULL DUMBPHONE, THEN BUILT A 3D PRINTED CASE THAT MAKES IT AN ACTUAL CLICK WHEEL IPOD your iphone slides into a 3d printed shell that covers most of the screen and adds a real click wheel, so you scroll and press menu like an old ipod instead of touching the screen at all inside is a whole simplified phone system he built from scratch > 15 mini apps, music, books, camera, notes, voice memos, fitness, all of it > classic cover flow for apple music plus your own local files > a retro camera with film style luts, so you snap a photo without instantly editing and posting it > swappable themes, basic, y2k, toy, skeuo, flat, so it matches your style > the case physically blocks the rest of your screen, sealing off social apps and notifications he thinks focus is the most valuable thing we have left, so he built a way to make the most distracting device you own impossible to doom-scroll on

SOMEONE VIBE CODED POKEMON GO BUT FOR CATS YOU MEET IN REAL LIFE see a cat, open the camera, snap it, and it gets added to your collection as a little creature with a name, rarity, level, and its own stats page > checks the photo actually has a real cat in it, so you cant just screenshot one or use an image > every cat you catch gets a rarity and its own collectible card > a world map shows cats other players have found near you > has retro cartoon art, cream colors and thick outlines, built to feel like a game he wanted "snapping" a cat to feel playful and fast, not like just saving a photo so most of the work went into the detection and making the catch feel like a real game i need a dog one asap

THIS GUY HAD OPUS 4.8 BUILD A FULL LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CLONE IN UNDER A DAY AND CALLED IT "LMAO" temu league of legends, fully playable, multiplayer, and all built by claude ALL the art is claude too he had claude generate every character, animation, and background as SVG code then converted them to procedural canvas for smooth animation. used dedicated sub-agents for each champion the tech stack: typescript, react, canvas, and partykit for multiplayer the workflow: > used /goal to kick off the entire project > ultracode workflows for big tasks like optimization > /goal again to queue up lists of bug fixes > treated claude like a dev team the original champion names claude came up with: the original champion names claude came up with: Teehee" instead of Teemo. "CtrlAltDefeat" as a champion name. he had to run through and clean them all up so nothing infringed on riot's IP claude even built the bots on its own with "chill," "normal," and "sweaty" difficulty levels the token bill was 2.7 billion total tokens consumed. mostly cache reads. 15.5 million actual output tokens. would have cost roughly $6,600 at list price but he just used his pro max subscriptions people are already benchmarking claude by how good of a game clone it can build game developers are watching someone build a multiplayer MOBA in a day with zero art skills and zero game dev experience 2026 is wild (and its going to get even wilder)

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying. then projects them onto his ceiling in real time when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible but he didn't stop at planes it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software