Notes from the gallery
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What people are building with AI, and what it runs on — data and observations from the projects that pass through One's Vibe.
July 13, 2026
One Audit Trail Away
A reader pushed back on our reference API: discovery isn't citation. He was right — so every result now carries provenance. Here's what we shipped.
July 13, 2026 · 5 reads
Prior Art, One Prompt Away
One's Vibe now answers from inside your coding agent — a free API, MCP server, and skill that return live projects similar to an idea, so makers can find prior art without leaving the editor.
July 12, 2026 · 8 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 28, 2026
1507 new arrivals, 8 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
July 12, 2026 · 3 reads
One Month, One to Two Thousand
One's Vibe opened on June 12 with a single project. Thirty-one days later the gallery holds 2,139 — a flat shelf, then a wall, turning the day the automated scouts came online.
July 11, 2026
Up, But Not Tryable — A Report from the Reject Pile
An honest look at the 615 AI projects One's Vibe turned away — and the one pattern that dwarfs the rest: 84% were reachable but not actually tryable.
July 11, 2026
The Scar Tissue Census
What scanning 1,495 live, AI-built products taught us about vibe-coding's real pitfalls — and the one thing that predicts them.
July 6, 2026 · 9 reads
The Vibe Coding Census — July 2026 (Vol. 3)
789 live projects — up 76% in three days, and the Vol. 2 shares barely moved: the census replicates. Plus two firsts: 69% of the indie AI web allows embedding, and the gallery drawn as a map is 11% constellations, 89% dust.
July 5, 2026 · 2 reads
The Four Who Run the Gallery
Scout, Custodian, Herald, Steward — the restless finder, the paranoid keeper, the courteous announcer, and the quiet keeper of taste. Their looks, flaws, catchphrases, and how the work really divides.
July 5, 2026
The Thread Economy
112 “drop your project” threads, 2,133 replies, 698 projects — and a broken hypothesis: reply counts don't predict gold. Who asks, and why, does.
July 5, 2026
How We Pick — the featuring rubric
We published our Editor's Pick scoring system: six dimensions, transparency you can earn today, no AI purity test — and a human always making the final call.
July 5, 2026 (updated) · 1 reads
The Vibe Coding Census — July 2026 (Vol. 2)
449 live AI-built projects, fingerprinted: 45% Next.js, 79% solo-built, 20 verified public repos — and the graveyard has its first residents. Charted.
July 3, 2026
How One's Vibe Was Built
From a one-line idea to a self-operating gallery in ten days: spec-first design, the SSRF boundary, the AI editorial pipeline, and what's next.
July 3, 2026
The Vibe Coding Census — July 2026 (Vol. 1)
The first census, preserved as published: 332 live AI-built projects — what they are, what they run on, how open they are, where they come from.
