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.
August 30, 2026 · 1 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 35, 2026
1559 new arrivals, 7 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
August 23, 2026 · 5 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 34, 2026
1137 new arrivals, 6 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
August 16, 2026 · 4 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 33, 2026
936 new arrivals, 7 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
August 9, 2026 · 9 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 32, 2026
933 new arrivals, 7 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
August 3, 2026 · 2 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 31, 2026
832 new arrivals, 7 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
July 27, 2026 · 2 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 30, 2026
872 new arrivals, 7 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
July 19, 2026 · 7 reads
This week on One's Vibe — week 29, 2026
1205 new arrivals, 6 new Editor's Pick(s), and the doors the editor walked through — the gallery's week in notes.
July 17, 2026
The Acquisition Blind Spot: Your Next User Might Not Be Human
Every interface we've ever shipped — GUI, CLI, API — assumes a human. Now the AI agent is a new kind of user and a new channel of distribution, yet only 1.4% of live AI apps are actually callable by one. MCP is the first door built for it, and opening that door is nearly a one-line job.
July 15, 2026 · 4 reads
The Agent-Readiness of the Vibe-Coded Web — 31% Readable, 1.4% Callable
We probed all 2,614 live apps in the gallery for declared AI interfaces. 31% already ship llms.txt — but only 1.4% expose a callable MCP endpoint. The first measured baseline of the agent-ready web, and the 22× gap that defines its frontier.
July 14, 2026 · 50 reads
A Living Awesome List: 2,400+ Curated Vibe-Coded Apps, Updated Daily, Self-Pruning
The full catalog is now a public GitHub repo — an awesome list of 2,400+ live vibe-coded apps where dead links remove themselves, plus the whole dataset as CC0 JSON and a skill for coding agents.
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 · 10 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 · 11 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 · 5 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 · 10 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 · 7 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 · 3 reads
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 · 3 reads
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) · 4 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 · 4 reads
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 · 4 reads
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.
