[simonw]

This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly.

28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5".

Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch.

Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and has screenshots (or a silent video) showing you how to get that image up and running and what you can do with it.

The create image dialog suggests "nginx:latest" but that's not a great starting demo.

[thefourthchime]

The AI-Maxing copy on the website kind of gave it away. Doesn't mean is not a great app though!

[satvikpendem]

The description of this submission that literally says "Mostly vibe-coded" didn't give it away?

[Hamuko]

You don't see the submission description when you open the link from the front page.

[throwitaway222]

I think we're past the point where agentic coding is a given now.

[danpalmer]

Coding yes, copywriting, design, identity, no. Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality, unless you don't care about quality. Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.

[Klonoar]

> Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality

Look, I'm as anti-AI as the next guy but their homepage is good. They didn't compromise on quality.

Call a spade a spade.

[tomgp]

I think the issue is that the prose on the homepage gives off AI marketing BS "Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't." "Native down to the pixels" etc. in an age where the web is stuffed full of low value llm generated content this is a strong negative signal for me (and i suspect others). No reflection on the app itself which I've yet to try but seems like a great idea

[danpalmer]

> Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't

Yeah this is it. I don't know what you think I expect? I'm reading your marketing copy, it's your job to market it. There are few brands in the world that can get away with forcing the buyer to do their own marketing. In this context it's grossly unearned confidence, the type you only get from idiots and LLMs.

[RossBencina]

> Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.

Brings to mind The Show's "ugly MySpace" episode: https://archive.org/details/zefrank-theshow-083

It would be nice if everyone prioritised, and was capable of, shipping polished products. But more likely the apps you're bemoaning come from folks who are not product designers. Even prior to genAI there were plenty of developers (myself included) who had patchy competence in some subset of {copywriting, documentation information architecture, visual design, identity, UI/UX, ...}. I know good developers for whom UI coherence is "not their problem," although they know well enough that it needs to be someone's problem. "Programmer art" is also a thing. I would argue that the non-coding parts of many open-source projects are what lets them down, and when it is good it is usually documentation that impresses me the most. But I think Ze Frank's view might be that, given the sudden drop in barriers to entry, it is amazing that everyone is having a go and trying to express themselves.

[throwitaway222]

Agreed

[amelius]

Can't someone vibe-code a MacOS that runs on Linux?

[mmmlinux]

Have at it.

[xinit]

Great suggestion. Coming up.

[joka88xj]

A tutorial with a slightly more realistic example would help a lot here. nginx:latest shows the plumbing works, but it doesn’t really show where Apple Containers feels different from Docker Desktop or OrbStack.

Something like a tiny app with a volume, port mapping, and a simple rebuild loop would make the value much easier to see.