One thing I genuinely enjoy about “vibe coding” with tools like Claude Code is the ability to finally ship ideas that have been sitting on the back burner.
I’ve wanted to turn a debt-tracking spreadsheet I've had into a simple CLI application ever since I first used it many years ago. However, time always got in the way. I knew how to code it; I just never had the bandwidth.
With Claude, I was able to get it working in about two hours without manually writing the code at all. Is it perfect or production quality? No. But it works, mirrors the spreadsheet accurately, and does exactly what I need.
Does something already exist? Probably, but I made it exactly how I wanted it, and read all the lines of code that went into it as built.
Best part: one less bloated app to open just to manage something simple.
Have a few more tools I've been itching to build, so probably will see some more soon!
Check it out: dave
(fake debts in screenshot below)
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