I shipped 4 apps in 3 months as a weekend vibe coder. Here's the honest breakdown.

I have a full-time job as a Director of Tech at a gaming company. 13 years in. But weekends? That's when I build things.

Over the last 3 months I shipped 4 products using AI-assisted coding (what people now call "vibe coding"):

🍕 SomeYum - A recipe swiper app. Tinder for dinner. Swipe through recipes, build a meal plan, get a grocery list. v2.0 launching on Product Hunt this week.

🎯 TellMeMo - AI-powered meeting search. You know when someone says "we discussed this 3 weeks ago" and nobody remembers what was decided? This fixes that.

🔒 VibeCheck - Security scanner for AI-generated code. Because Claude writes beautiful code that sometimes has beautiful vulnerabilities.

📈 GrowthForge - Habit tracker on iOS. Built it for myself first, then figured others might want it too.

What actually worked:

1. Constraint-driven development. I have maybe 10-15 hours a week. That forces ruthless prioritization. No feature creep. Ship the smallest useful thing.

2. AI as a force multiplier, not a replacement. I write maybe 30% of the code myself. But I review 100% of it. AI gets you to a working prototype fast, but you still need to understand what it's doing.

3. Scratching my own itch. Every product started as something I personally needed. SomeYum because my wife and I couldn't decide what to cook. TellMeMo because I sit in too many meetings. VibeCheck because I realized my own AI-generated code had security issues.

4. Shipping > perfecting. v1 of everything was rough. But it was out there. Real users give you better feedback than another week of polishing.

What didn't work:

• Trying to promote all 4 at once. You spread yourself too thin. Focus on one launch at a time.
• Assuming AI code is production-ready. It's not. That's literally why I built VibeCheck.
• Underestimating distribution. Building is maybe 30% of the work. Getting people to care is the other 70%.

Where things stand now:

• SomeYum v2.0 launches on Product Hunt this week
• VibeCheck getting organic traffic from devs worried about AI code security
• GrowthForge live on App Store
• TellMeMo in beta with a few teams

I'm not making life-changing money yet. But I'm shipping things people actually use, learning a ton, and having fun doing it.

Happy to answer questions about the stack, the process, or any of the products. What's working for others doing the "full-time job + side projects" dance?