11 Vibe Coded Website Examples (and What Each Gets Right)

Looking for vibe coded website examples that are actually real, not screenshots somebody swears “look AI-made”? Here are 11 we can verify: a browser flight sim that claimed $50,000 a month, MenuGen from the guy who coined the term, Rick Rubin’s interactive Tao Te Ching, a solo-owned platform that sold for $80 million cash, two hackathon winners, a CAPTCHA that makes you play DOOM, and a Linus Torvalds side project. The best vibe coded websites don’t look vibe coded, and that’s the entire lesson: it’s the untouched defaults that give an AI build away, not the AI. Every entry below comes with a receipt and one design move worth stealing.

How we verified these vibe coded website examples

Half the “AI generated website examples” posts floating around are guesswork. Someone spots Inter font on a purple gradient and declares it machine-made. We didn’t do that. Every example here clears one of three bars: the builder documented the build themselves, a platform showcase lists it as launched, or actual press covered it. If we couldn’t verify it, it didn’t make the list, which is why this is 11 examples and not a rounder number.

Some context on how mainstream this got: Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” in February 2025, Merriam-Webster logged it a month later, and Collins made it Word of the Year for 2025, per Wikipedia’s running log of the term. The same entry notes a March 2025 Y Combinator report where a quarter of the winter batch had codebases that were 95 percent AI-generated. This stopped being a stunt a while ago. Tool names below are whatever each source reported; for what those tools cost and where each one fits in mid-2026, we keep a separate rundown in our vibe coding tools guide.

1. Fly.pieter.com — the browser flight sim that paid rent

Pieter Levels typed prompts, shipped a multiplayer flight sim you play in a browser tab, and narrated the whole thing live on X. The first version took him 30 minutes, and within weeks he was claiming north of $50,000 a month, per 404 Media’s March 2025 piece, whose headline carried the necessary asterisk: “yours probably won’t.” Fair. Levels had a decade of shipping and a huge audience before the first prompt.

The steal: time-to-first-interaction. You land on the page and you’re flying in seconds. No signup, no tutorial, no loading bar apologizing for itself. Most business sites make visitors do three clicks of work before showing them anything. His makes the product the landing page. Yours can too, even if your product is plumbing estimates instead of aerial combat.

2. MenuGen — Karpathy’s menu-to-pictures app

The man who named vibe coding also stress-tested it. Karpathy built menugen.app, which turns a photo of a restaurant menu into generated images of each dish, using Cursor and Claude, and then wrote up the whole experience on his blog in April 2025. The candid part is the good part: he felt “80% done” within hours, then spent the real time on API keys, DNS, auth, and a Stripe integration where the model tried to match payments by email instead of user ID.

Two steals here. Design: one input, one output. The page does a single job and you understand it in one glance. Process: the boring 20 percent, the deploys and payments and domains, is where vibe builds actually stall. Budget for it or it budgets for you.

3. The Way of Code — Rick Rubin’s Tao Te Ching for prompt people

Eighty-one chapters of Lao Tzu, adapted by the most famous record producer alive and paired with generative art built with Claude. The twist is that thewayofcode.com lets you modify each artwork by describing what you want, right on the page. It launched in late May 2025 as a collaboration with Anthropic, per DesignRush’s coverage, where Rubin explained the appeal:

“I’m the record producer who doesn’t know anything about music. So the idea that there could be a coder who doesn’t know anything about coding — that’s vibe coding.”

The steal is restraint. The site is mostly typography and space. The interactive art earns its place because it’s the content, not decoration bolted on to look impressive. When AI can generate anything, choosing to show almost nothing is the strongest design position on this list.

4. Base44 — the plain-English app builder with an $80 million exit

Maor Shlomo built Base44 as a bootstrapped solo owner, and six months in, Wix bought it for $80 million in cash, per TechCrunch’s June 2025 report. By May it had 250,000 users and $189,000 in monthly profit despite heavy AI token costs. The example here isn’t just the business. It’s what a quarter-million non-programmers shipped on it: internal tools, client portals, small products, described in plain English.

The steal: batteries included. Base44 grew because auth, database, and hosting came built in, so beginners never hit the setup wall that kills momentum. Apply that to your own site. Every “configure this before you see value” step you remove is worth more than any hero animation you add.

5. Tailored Labs — the AI video editor that won the world’s largest hackathon

Adrian Humphrey took the $100,000 grand prize at Bolt’s World’s Largest Hackathon, which ran May 30 to June 30, 2025 and drew more than 130,000 registered builders. His build: an AI video editor that takes raw footage to a rough edit through natural-language commands, built on Bolt with Gemini 2.5 Pro handling video analysis, per an interview after the win.

Notice the pitch, because it’s the steal: zero to 80 percent of a finished edit. Not “your entire workflow, reimagined.” A specific, checkable promise that leaves room for the human finish. Copy that under-promises by 20 percent reads as honest, and honest converts. We run our whole shop on that math.

6. BaseballHub — youth-coach software, idea to App Store in a week

Joseph Clarke built BaseballHub with Bolt.new to help youth coaches manage teams, lineups, and schedules, and it won the $25,000 Make More Money Challenge at that same hackathon. The Devpost winners gallery logs the part we like most: idea to App Store in a week.

Here the steal is niche naming. Not “sports team management platform.” Youth coaches. Lineups. Schedules. The copy names its user so precisely that the right person recognizes themselves in five words. Vague positioning is the most common failure we see in DIY builds, and it’s free to fix: write for one specific person having one specific bad Tuesday.

7. DOOM CAPTCHA — prove you’re human by playing DOOM

Guillermo Rauch, Vercel’s CEO, spent holiday downtime building a CAPTCHA where you verify your humanity by killing three enemies in DOOM on nightmare difficulty. He built the interface with v0, his company’s own AI builder, per TechSpot’s writeup. It’s a joke with production-grade execution, and it went everywhere for a week.

The steal: visible progress plus a little play. The widget shows your kill count, so you always know where you stand, and the absurd stakes make it screenshot-able. You don’t need DOOM on your contact page. You do need every multi-step thing on your site to show state this clearly: step two of three, two fields left, almost there.

8. LunchBox Buddy — the NYT columnist’s software for one

Kevin Roose, who covers tech for The New York Times, vibe coded a batch of tiny personal apps in early 2025 and wrote a February column about the experience. The one that stuck was LunchBox Buddy, a private tool for handling his kid’s lunch, as catalogued in Wikipedia’s vibe coding entry. Best detail: the AI padded his app with fake reviews, unprompted. Even the robots inflate their portfolios.

The steal is scope. Software for one person can skip every feature that person doesn’t need, which is most of them. When you build your own site, that discipline translates directly: your homepage serves your actual customer, not a hypothetical committee of them. And audit every line of AI-written copy, because the fake-reviews instinct is real.

9. AudioNoise visualizer — Linus Torvalds vibes now

Linus Torvalds, a man not famous for lowering standards, shipped a Python visualizer for his AudioNoise audio-effects hobby project in January 2026 and noted the tool was “basically written by vibe-coding” with Google Antigravity, per the same Wikipedia log. The creator of Linux and git letting AI write his side-project code is about as strong an endorsement as the workflow gets.

The steal: match polish to audience. It’s a utility for an engineer, so it looks like a utility, and that’s correct. The inverse holds for a customer-facing site: your audience is civilians, so default engineer-chic (dense text, no hierarchy, gray on gray) fails them the same way a gradient-washed dashboard would fail Torvalds.

10. The v0 community gallery — hundreds of vibe coded builds in one place

Vercel’s v0 community gallery is the biggest browsable pile of vibe coded websites we know of: landing pages, dashboards, e-commerce fronts, design systems, full site templates, each one built with v0 and each one duplicable into your own account with a click. It’s a platform showcase rather than a single site, and that’s exactly why it earns a slot. You can study a hundred real builds in an afternoon.

The steal: remix beats blank prompt. Starting from a working pattern and editing it hard gets you further than describing a site from scratch, because the structure is proven and your effort goes into making it yours. Just actually edit it. A forked template with the placeholder headline still attached is how sites end up identical.

11. Vibe Jam — the rulebook that doubles as a UX checklist

Every spring now brings a Vibe Jam, the game-building competition Pieter Levels kicked off in 2025. The 2026 edition ran April 1 to May 1 with over $50,000 in prizes and one hard requirement: at least 90 percent of each game’s code has to be written by AI. The rest of the rulebook is the part worth framing: entries must be web-playable, free, no login or signup, and no heavy loading screens. Games that make you wait or register are out before a judge ever sees them.

Read those rules again as a website owner, because that’s the steal. Loads fast. Works without signup. First meaningful interaction in seconds. A competition for AI-built games accidentally wrote a better UX standard than most agency briefs we’ve seen. Tape it to your monitor.

What the best vibe coded websites get right

None of these look machine-made, and none of them got there by accident. Each one made at least one deliberate, specific decision: a niche named out loud, a promise scoped to 80 percent, an interaction that starts in seconds, a page stripped to typography. The AI wrote the code. A human made the calls.

Contrast that with the default look: same font, same gradient, same three-card feature row, same headline that could sell anything and therefore sells nothing. We broke down exactly why that happens, and the specific overrides that prevent it, in our post on why vibe coded websites all look the same. The short version is that models regress to the most statistically average site on the internet unless you force decisions. The eleven builds above are what forcing decisions looks like. The failure modes waiting on the other side, from unedited placeholder copy to shipping with no backups, are catalogued in our vibe coding mistakes rundown, and most of them trace back to the same root: nobody made a call, so the model made it.

Survivorship warning, since we promised honesty: for every example here there are thousands of vibe coded sites that never got a visitor. The receipts prove the ceiling is high. They don’t prove the floor went away.

Steal the pattern, then go build one

Start the way these builders did: pick one specific user, one specific promise, and make the first interaction instant. Our prompt library exists for exactly that first run. Forty prompts, each around 12,000 characters, tested on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with the anti-default decisions (real typography, real spacing, copy slots that force specificity) already baked in so you’re editing, not staring at a blank chat box wondering what to type. A portfolio is the classic first build, and we cover how to vibe code a portfolio website end to end if that’s where you start.

No free weekend, or your DIY run already ate two of them? We build vibe-coded static sites for $2,800 flat, done in 3 to 5 days, code on GitHub, a 2-minute video every night showing progress, and 30 days of free fixes after launch. And if your own experiment is currently on fire, our rescue service starts with a $450 diagnostic that gets credited if we do the fix. Either way, nobody’s making you sit through a discovery call.

Questions we get about these examples

Are vibe coded websites really 100 percent written by AI?

Almost never, and the honest builders say so. The Vibe Jam draws the line at 90 percent AI-written code, Karpathy described being 80 percent done in hours and then grinding through auth, payments, and DNS by hand, and Torvalds still reviewed what Antigravity produced. In every verified example, a human steered scope, taste, and the final call. The AI typed; somebody decided.

How can you tell if a website was vibe coded?

When it’s done well, you mostly can’t, which is the point of this list. What people actually detect is untouched defaults: the same font pairing, purple-gradient hero, three-card feature row, and could-be-anyone headline that every model produces when nobody pushes back. The tells come from missing decisions, not from AI involvement itself. Fix the decisions and the “AI look” disappears.

Do vibe coded websites actually make money?

Some, verifiably. Pieter Levels claimed over $50,000 a month from his flight sim per 404 Media’s reporting, Base44 sold to Wix for $80 million cash after reaching $189,000 in monthly profit, and Bolt’s hackathon paid a $100,000 grand prize. Those are reported numbers from named sources, and they’re outliers. The typical vibe coded site earns what any site earns: whatever its offer and its traffic deserve.

What tools were used in the examples on this list?

Per the sources: Cursor with Claude for MenuGen, Claude for The Way of Code, Bolt for both hackathon winners (with Gemini 2.5 Pro doing video analysis for Tailored Labs), v0 for the DOOM CAPTCHA and everything in the v0 gallery, Google Antigravity for Torvalds’ visualizer, and Base44 for its users’ apps. The toolbox shifts every quarter, so check a current comparison before committing to one.

Can I get results like these from free prompts?

You can get the same class of result, a specific site that avoids the default look, if you put real effort into the decisions the prompt forces: audience, promise, typography, one clear interaction. You probably won’t get a $50,000-a-month flight sim, because distribution did half the work in every money example above. Build for one specific customer first and let the screenshots stay humble.