Make things. With tools you built.
Making things, with tools — projection mapping, bracelet patterns, prompt decks, and visualizers that replace expensive software.
Riso-bright.
Hands-on.
Print the deck, run the show.
twelve variants. Each one a single-file React app you can clone and re-ink.
The expensive software was never the point.
Projection mapping suites cost $50/month. Pattern designers want a subscription. Prompt decks ship as $30 boxes of cards. None of that is the creative work — that's the tooling tax. When you can prompt a single-file app into existence in an evening, the tool becomes another thing you make. Build the deck. Print the swatch. Calibrate the projector. Then make the actual thing.
OG vibes from Vibes DIY 1.0
Pick one to clone or remix. These ran on the original platform and still hold up.
3D & Generative
7
Music & Sound
12
Painting & Imagery
11
Design Tools
8
Storytelling & Chat
9
Toys & Vibes
12
Seven hands-on toolkits
Each studio is a single-file React app. Hit Visit to play with the live version, Remix to fork it and reshape with AI, or Start fresh to launch a new vibe from the same prompt. Where two variants exist, they are different cuts of the same idea — pick the one that prints best.
Projection Studio
Projection mapping graphics that replace expensive $50/mo software — camera-calibrated projection layout; drag shapes onto surfaces; save scenes; live edit on device.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
Oblique Strategies Deck
Oblique Strategies deck — random prompt; favorites; session history; "apply to project" notes. A printable, taggable, remixable creative-block solvent.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
House Repainting Visualizer
House repainting visualizer — camera overlay; segment walls; apply colors; save schemes; side-by-side compare. Try the palette before you open the can.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
Friendship Bracelet Designer
Friendship bracelet pattern designer — bead/thread color grids; step-by-step instructions; share patterns; difficulty ratings.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
Secret Handshake Builder
Secret handshake builder — step-by-step move sequence; practice mode with timing cues; share encrypted link with your partner only.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
Podcast Smash Buttons
Podcast show-notes smash buttons — large tappable topics; dismiss as covered; AI suggests next talking point; timer cues.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →
Swatch Catalog
Paint sample tracker — photo walls; pin labels; store codes/brands; final palette record. The studio fridge magnet, but searchable.
✦ Start fresh from this prompt →"Build the tool. Print the deck. Then make the actual thing."
— J. Chris Anderson, Vibes DIYThese are the apps that replace a tab in your bookmark bar, a drawer of paint chips, or a $50/month subscription. Built in evenings, printed like a riso zine — slightly off-register, weirdly satisfying, no two pulls quite alike. The point isn't the polish. The point is the press is in your kitchen now.
Make a worse version. Or a better one.
Every app on this page is open. Click Remix on any of them, change the prompt, change the tone, change the entire premise. Vibes DIY rewrites the code with you.
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Drop your remix in the Discord. The cringer the better.
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