Comment by amotinga

taking sabbatical from work (after getting laid off) went to visit family in moldova. my nieces tell me there is no app to learn romanian online - this cant be true.

I do a bit of research and turns out this is mostly true, mostly these websites built for english speaking people, meaning you learn romanian - but starting from english.

at the same time I need to dig in into all the rails 8 goodies. also, I've been hearing about this cloudflare thing, and not knowing what's that about. also, heroku is shit now, so Im curious to try some new server, hetzner u say? - wonder what's that like.

kamal is a thing now, ok.

but coding is ... time and energy intensive, what is this vibecoding ppl talking about?

anyhow May 20th I sit down to "vibecode" an app - see what happens. one thing led to another and here we are

https://vorbim.org/

found some romanian words ranked by frequency. found free open db of romanian words on dexonline. found google TTS to transform text to sound. found that cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade) found that cloudflare has some neat useful features. found that server at hetzner is pretty cheap and with ai easy to setup. found that fable/opus are great at generating content (with some hand holding) found that AI now is stupid good at building / designing websites.

it was impossible for me to build something like this without second monitor and tweaking css for days/weeks. now? I just tell it make it pretty. god damn. inspiring and disheartening at the same time.