Community tests / technically-vandelay-2026-08

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2026 vibe coding tool comparison (Vandelay Industries ops dashboard)

By Justin Gage (technically.dev) · 2026-08-25 · method: hand

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Task

Internal ops dashboard for Vandelay Industries: inventory/CRM table of potato-chip shipments, analytics/charts, map of shipments. Iterated with bug-fix prompts.

Same starting prompt across tools; author inspected apps and prompted fixes one by one. Paid for 2 of 4 tools.

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Result (as stated)

TL;DR as written: 'Replit was the most feature rich, well thought out, and powerful'; 'v0 was the best if you’re already a developer and want a technical interface'; 'Lovable and Bolt were pretty much objectively worse than the other two.' Final pick: 'If I were starting a new project from scratch I’d use Replit or v0.'

Places we recorded: #1 Replit (most feature rich / best finished app (qualitative)) · #2 v0 (best for developers (qualitative)) · #3 Lovable (objectively worse (tied qualitative)) · #3 Bolt (objectively worse (tied qualitative))

Conflict of interest: None stated for any vendor.

No numeric scores. Places 3 tied for Lovable and Bolt per author's wording.

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Replit v0 Lovable → Bolt →

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