Building tools with vibe coding

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd15ZHzz5Qp/?stkn=MTY0cjlqYmhseGVlZQ==

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A designer stuck on "vibe coding" stopped hunting for a big idea and instead built a tool around a problem she already had every day. She used V0 to build "Art Direction Eye," an app that takes a reference image and breaks down its aesthetic elements like camera style, movement, and fashion.

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Wrong starting point: Searching for a novel idea to build is what stalled her for so long, not lack of skill or lack of access to the tools.
Look at your own workflow: The breakthrough came from noticing a recurring frustration in her day job as a designer, not from brainstorming in a vacuum.
Image references are never whole: When designers pull references for AI image generation, they usually want one element (camera angle, movement, fashion), never the entire picture, and manually separating that out was failing her.
Built the tool she needed: Art Direction Eye lets her upload a reference image and it automatically pulls apart every aesthetic component happening in it.
V0 made it fast: She describes the build as "shockingly easy," done by talking through her struggles and desired features directly with the tool.
AI Gateway as a feature: Using V0's AI Gateway let her add a model selector into the tool with little extra effort.
Self doubt as the real blocker: She frames her earlier struggle as thinking she "wasn't smart enough," which turned out to be a mindset problem rather than a technical one.

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“I genuinely thought I wasn't smart enough to use these tools the way that everyone else was.”
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“I stopped trying to come up with an idea for a tool.”
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“This was shockingly easy to build in V0.”
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“I basically just talked to my computer and told it everything I was struggling with.”
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