Comment by jim180

I've vibe coded small project as well using Claude Code. It's about visitors registration at the company. Simple project, one form, a couple of checkboxes, everything is stored in sqlite + has endpoint for getting .xlsx.

Initial cost was around $20 USD, which later grew to (mostly polishing) $40 with some manual work.

I've intentionally picked up simple stack: html+js+php.

A couple of things:

* I'd say I'm happy about the result from product's perspective * Codebase could be better, but I could not care less about in this case * By default, AI does not care about security unless I specifically tell it * Claude insisted on using old libs. When I've specifically told it to use the latest and greatest, it upgraded them but left code that works just with an old version. Also it mixed latest DaisyUI with some old version of tailwindcss :)

On one hand it was super easy and fun to do, on the other hand if I was a junior engineer, I bet it would have cost more.