top apps built on whip in the last 24 hours:
1. YC Pixel navigator
2. Retro Cnavas Nes
3. Brick draft studio
and many more. build your first app using whip ๐
we gave vibe coding a social feed
most vibe coding tools end at a deployment link. its fine for mvps/utility software but people building software purely for fun and personal use end up discarding those links and the ideas dies
whip's social feed gives them a place to live
Software is not always utility driven. In fact, history shows the opposite.
1/ The demoscene community wrote code purely to create visual art. No product, no users, just beauty.
2/ Richard Stallman didn't start GNU because of a business case. He started it because he was curious.
3/ Games, interactive fiction, simulations... closer to film and literature than enterprise SaaS. The value is emotional, not functional.
4/ There's an entire tradition of esoteric programming languages that exist just to make a philosophical point about computation.
5/ Bitcoin's genesis block was part utility, part political statement.
Software has always been a medium. Like film, like music, like writing. It can serve function, expression, play, or protest.
The difference? Earlier this expression would take months. With AI, that time is now reduced to minutes.
Before YouTube, making a video was possible. Cameras existed. Editing software existed. But creation and distribution were two separate problems. YouTube put them together. A billion creators showed up.
I think software is next.
You can vibe code an app in minutes now. But then what? You send 3 friends a link. Maybe tweet about it. Nobody finds it. There was just no place for it to live.
Think about how many ideas die like this. A dad who wants a bedtime story app for his kid. A trainer who wants a simple client tracker. Friends who'd play a cricket trivia game every weekend if someone just made it.
These ideas don't need a startup. They don't need a landing page. They need a platform where building and sharing live together.
That's what we're building with Whip. Build an app on your phone. Publish it. People discover it, use it, remix it. The creation is the distribution.
The next billion apps won't come from developers. They'll come from people who had one idea and finally had somewhere to put it.
today's showcase (app 1024/1b)
today's theme: build habits with whip
every morning you set five alarms and still lose 30 minutes arguing with your phone for five more minutes
so we built an alarm that makes you solve a puzzle to shut it up. no snooze, no dismiss, you solve it or it keeps ringing
built on whip in two minutes, no code, just a prompt. what's the one morning habit you'd automate away?
today's showcase (app 800/1B)
theme: stop scrolling. start building!
every night it's the same thing. open phone, scroll 200 food videos, still no idea what to eat. 20 minutes gone.
so someone on whip just built an app for it. dinner roulette. spin wheel picks your meal. hate it? spin again. built in two minutes. no code.
we're seeing people turn their dumbest daily frustrations into actual mini apps. that's the whole point.
what do you waste the most time on that could be a 2 minute build?
Had a call with one of our power users on Whip yesterday.
Turns out he's a professional game developer. Works with Unity, does community management for one of the bigger indie game dev communities, has shipped mobile games before. This is someone who knows his tools.
He's been using Whip to prototype mini game ideas. Tetris-style puzzle games with physics, particle effects, even AI-generated music. His exact reaction when the physics worked the way he expected: "I want to see how far I can push this thing.
This is a pro choosing Whip to test gameplay ideas faster than he can in Unity.
And then he also shared Whip to his wife and daughter. One power user. Three people building. That's the thing about making creation easy enough. It spreads.
We're still early. But when experienced developers start stress-testing your platform for fun, something is clicking.
If you've been sitting on an app idea or a game idea, Whip is free to download.
Build it, publish it, and let real people try it.
here's what we added to whip's agent in the past 2 weeks to make it more powerful and build better apps:
1/ game dev: physics, collisions, gpu rendering, sound effects (matter.js, pixijs, three.js, howler.js)
2/ ai baked into your apps: chat, image gen, photo uploads, context-aware responses
3/ cloud storage: user data persists across reinstalls
animations: spring physics, particles, confetti, typewriter text, animated counters
4/ data viz: charts, math notation, qr codes, code blocks, dom screenshots
5/ advanced ui: 1000+ icons, drag-and-drop, gestures, drawing, carousels, dark mode, full tailwind
6/ date/time: countdowns, relative times, smart formatting
if you're a creator, you can build any mini app you want. the power is right in your pocket.
today's showcase (app 600/1B)
theme: the 3am idea finally survived the night.
every night your brain pitches you app ideas right before you fall asleep. by morning they're dead notes you'll never open again.
what if you could build it before you fall back asleep?
what 3am idea would you build?
Today's Showcase (App 437/1B)
Theme: build apps on the go.
What if you could ship an app from your phone in under a minute?
No code. No laptop. Just a prompt and a train ride.
What would you build on your commute?
we haven't even launched yet and there are already 400+ apps from 100+ creators on the platform
electric circuit simulators. seismic wave apps. hyper-casual games that are genuinely addictive. fitness trackers. a breakup app that literally helps you spot red flags doctors, students, navy engineers, gamers.
people from every walk of life building things they've had in their heads for years if you're still sitting on an idea, now is the time to Whip it!