📚 Vibe Coding: How I Built a Digital Bookshelf with Claude Code
I had over 460 books and no catalog. I always put it off because it was tedious, not hard.
At the end of 2025, I decided to solve it with AI. The result: an interactive bookshelf with covers, animations, and real metadata.
🔍 The process:
- 📷 470 photos of spines and covers in one afternoon
- 🤖 Claude wrote scripts that sent each image to OpenAI’s vision API
- 📊 Automatic extraction of title, author, and publisher
- 🎨 Covers fetched via Open Library and SerpAPI
- ✨ Scroll-based tilt animation with Framer Motion
💡 What I learned: Claude wrote all the code. I made the design decisions: when 90% accuracy was enough, which features to remove (infinite scroll was unnecessary), what felt right visually.
“Execution keeps getting cheaper. Taste still does not.”
🧩 In a Nutshell#
Vibe coding is working with AI by giving it natural language instructions to generate code. You describe what you want, the AI writes how to achieve it. The revolutionary part isn’t that the code is perfect — it sometimes fails — but that the cost of trying ideas has collapsed. This changes the programmer’s role: from executor to decision-maker.
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