Hi everyone, today I want to showcase a really cool project made by @levelsio (Pieter Levels) called fly.pieter.com. It's a browser-based flight simulator entirely made by "vibe-coding".


For those who don't know about what vibe coding is, wikipedia explains it as follows: "an AI-powered programming practice where you surrender to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code".


Today, Pieter tweeted some mind-boggling statistics about the game:

  • 17K users played the game today (March 5th)
  • $52K MRR (from ads)
  • 12x F16's sold @ $29.99 = ~$360


The reason why I personally love this concept is because Pieter shows the world that you don't have to be a professional programmer with years of experience to build stuff. AI is getting better day by day and you should leverage it to create better products, faster.


It also shows that sometimes you can just start creating stuff and find ways to monetise it later on. You just got to have people that use your app / website game.


Of course Pieter already has an audience to share it with, but the real point here is that you can actually build really cool stuff "vibe coding". And no, your app doesn't need all kinds of scaling stuff from the start such as database sharding or replication. Just focus on the product.