AWS
How vibe coders and indie builders use AWS: 200 projects built with it and 17 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
200
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.8%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -33%
Add-ons built for it
17
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- PostgreSQL 34
- Next.js 31
- React 29
- Claude API 22
- Stripe 22
- Cloudflare 21
- Python 19
- Claude Code 18
What's built with it
Latest projects built with AWS
- BazukaMail — Sends email marketing campaigns with flat-rate pricing and multi-domain support.“Honestly priced email marketing platform”
- Pingvin Share X — Lets users share and receive files through a self-hosted web platform with configurable storage, access and permission settings.“Pingvin Share X v2.0.0: an easy self-hosted file sharing platform”
- Ramen — Deploys git-hosted Python MCP tools as canary-rolled workers on Kubernetes behind one load balancer, with OAuth sign-in, group roles, secrets and an audit log.“My side project: a self-hosted MCP server that deploys your AI agent tools across zones on Kubernetes”
- Vecta — Orchestrates Restic backups on Linux servers via a pull-based agent and a dashboard that reports job status, metrics, and failure emails.“I spent my summer building an unbloated backup orchestrator for Linux servers (wrapping Restic)”
- mykundli — Generates Vedic astrology birth charts and dasha timelines and connects users with a human astrologer who answers questions in a chat.“kept getting free chart reading requests, so i built a free site for it”
- Shortspan — Brokers access to secrets, SSH servers, databases, AWS and Kubernetes so users request short-lived, logged credentials instead of holding them.“I built a credential broker so nobody on the team holds prod keys. Would love brutal feedback on whether this makes sense”
- CostPulse — Sends Slack, Teams or email alerts when a day's AWS spend exceeds a threshold, explaining the spike in billing units.“I built AWS cost alerts that explain the spike, not just flag it. Looking for honest feedback”
- dbm — Manages database backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, storing them locally or in S3 and restoring them into another database of the same type.“Built an open source backup manager after one too many "did I just drop prod?" moments”
- ObitMC — Serves Qwen language model inference through an OpenAI-compatible API by running on interruptible cloud compute.“Test my new LLM inference engine and get 100M free tokens and then 60% cheaper inference”
- Loonee — Shares dog and cat care records, including walks, meals, meds, vet visits and reminders, across everyone who looks after the same pet.“After seven months, my AI dog and cat care app is live on the App Store today”
- 7 years building an e-commerce… — Lets builders create and sell e-commerce websites with page building, product and subscription sales, orders and refunds, support tickets, and AI content generation.“7 years building an e-commerce website builder solo. Live since 2020, and I still can't stop adding features. When is it enough?”
- Real Florida Man or Not? — Quizzes players to pick the real Florida Man headline from an AI-written fake in daily or endless rounds.“I built a daily game where you spot the real Florida Man headline next to an AI-written fake”
- Co-Founder — Coordinates multiple specialized AI agents, such as research, writing, marketing and data analysis, under a CEO orchestrator agent to help with business tasks.“I built an AI “co-founder” that coordinates multiple specialized agents to help build a business”
- MorrowApp — Provides a social network without short-form video, with friends-first feed, blocking of distracting content, finite feeds, and long-form article posts.“I built a social media app everybody wants :D”
- Supero — Generates a full-stack multi-tenant SaaS app from a plain-language description, including data model, admin console, customer UI, and REST API.“Built the tool I wished existed: describe an app, get a full-stack product you actually own”
Latest add-ons built for AWS
- Plexavo — Scans AWS accounts to find and report on cloud resources and configuration issues.“Launched Plexavo on Product Hunt today the AWS scanner I've been building in the open”
- S3Feather — Browses, uploads, downloads and shares files in S3-compatible buckets from a browser page with no install or server.“Vibecoded really easy to use S3 file explorer”
- certcoach — Provides AWS certification practice exams and an AI tutor that explains why each wrong answer is wrong, with links to AWS docs.“Its been 4 months building my exam prep site, still 0 customers. Unable to figure out the next step.”
- Nodefort — Provides a reusable hardened Terraform kit for EKS clusters plus a short ebook of troubleshooting runbooks.“Lancei o Nodefort — kit Terraform hardened pra EKS + ebook de runbooks, validando demanda”
- GetbillStop — Stops runaway AWS resources automatically when monthly spend hits a set limit and finds idle or unattached cloud resources that waste money.“AWS has no spending limit by default (no auto-stop). That one missing checkbox costs beginners and small teams thousands every week”
- Plexavo — Scans an AWS account for publicly reachable resources, open ports, stale access keys, and disabled audit logging, and produces a report of exposures.“Is your AWS quietly exposed to the whole internet and you just don't know it? for founders who build on AWS !!”
- Built a cloud security auditing… — Scans AWS cloud configurations against static CIS and NIST rules and generates a report with findings, severity levels, and remediation suggestions.“Built a cloud security auditing tool for my capstone. Looking for honest feedback before I invest more time into it.”
- FormFeed — Receives contact form submissions from static websites via an endpoint and delivers them to the owner's inbox.“FormFeed - Web site contact forms without a backend”
- cloud-doctor — Grades a cloud account's misconfigurations, missing observability, and security posture, ranking the top five fixes.“Built a tool to secure our vibe coded apps”
- Arc-Guard — Enforces a hard cloud spending cap on AWS, GCP and Azure by suspending runaway resources and sending alerts.“I built a fake door test for a cloud spending cap SaaS - would you use this?”
- AI Architecture Scanner — Scans pull requests for AI API usage and posts a comment flagging costly model choices, duplicate AI calls, and missing retry logic.“I built a GitHub Action that reviews AI API costs on every PR — here's what it found in our own codebase”
- SpendLens — Converts cloud billing CSV exports into a two-page PDF report with spend trends and a plain-English narrative.“I built a tool that turns AWS billing CSVs into board-ready PDFs — solo founder, would love brutal feedback”
- infrarails — Scans Terraform for AWS Bedrock infrastructure and reports whether EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 controls pass, fail, or can't be verified.“I built an open-source compliance scanner for AI infrastructure on AWS - looking for feedback”
- nqd — Runs automated AWS security testing with an AI agent and compiles findings into a searchable HTML report mapping vulnerabilities to CVEs and CVSS scores.“Got a contract to do security testing of AWS - built nqd a CLI based AI agent”
- Building one-click protection… — Configures website policies that control whether AI agents can browse, transact, search, or train on a site, deployable with a few clicks across hosting platforms.“Building one-click protection for your websites against AI. Would love to just learn!”
Pitched as alternatives to AWS
- Orkera — Deploys apps built by coding agents to public URLs by building them from a Dockerfile and hosting them.“I built a tool that lets Claude Code or Codex deploy the app it just built”
- Tabu — Classifies submitted images and videos for NSFW content and returns confidence scores per category via a single API request.“I got rejected from the App Store for Guideline 1.2 with different mobile app, so I built my own NSFW filtering API and want to scale it. Can you help?”
- onesend — Sends transactional emails such as password resets, receipts and notifications from servers located entirely in the EU.“I built an EU alternative to AWS SES - give me your honest feedback on it. DON't hold back!”
- PennyOCR — Converts uploaded PDFs and images into Markdown or plain text via an API, including tables.“[PennyOCR] - OCR API at 75 cents per 1,000 pages (half the price of AWS/Google)”
- Spinifex — Recreates core AWS services such as EC2, EKS and S3 as a local, optionally air-gapped deployment.“Spinifex: Open Source, air-gapped, edge AWS deployments (looking for feedback)”
- OpenCode on Android — Runs the OpenCode AI coding agent on an Android phone via Termux and glibc, without root.“VIbe Coding On Phone - OpenCode On Android - No Root”
- Tired of AWS bills for side… — Exposes an S3-compatible API that stores objects in linked consumer accounts like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Mega by streaming data through a stateless proxy.“Tired of AWS bills for side projects, I built a stateless proxy that turns Google Drive/Dropbox/Mega into a free S3 bucket”
- SQL Queries to Inbox — Runs saved SQL queries on a schedule and emails the results as CSV files.“SQL Queries to Inbox”
- PgRelay — Runs background jobs stored in PostgreSQL, enqueued within the same transaction as application data.“PgRelay: PostgreSQL-backed transactional jobs for async Python services”
- DocuTray — Converts PDFs and images into validated structured JSON by identifying document type, extracting data, and checking it against business rules.“An API that turns PDFs into structured JSON — with a Skill for coding agents”
- CloudMock — Emulates AWS cloud services locally so applications can run against mock AWS APIs without a real AWS account.“Built an AWS Cloud Emulator Almost Entirely Through Vibe Coding”
- EU Storj clone — Provides decentralized cloud object storage paid in euros, with storage nodes paid in fiat instead of crypto tokens.“Building an EU-focused, Crypto-Free Storj Clone (€) – Sinking ship or a valid alternative to AWS/Storj? Need your brutal feedback.”
- FBS (Fast Blob Storage) — Provides S3-compatible object storage in a single lightweight Go binary running on one Linux server.“I build a S3 compatible blob storage for single node”