C
How vibe coders and indie builders use C: 47 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
47
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.7%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
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Latest projects built with C
- Shess — Plays chess in a terminal shell using text commands such as mv.“Shess a chess shell”
- Velox Terminal — Provides a lightweight Linux terminal emulator with tabs, split panes, themes, configurable shortcuts, clipboard selection, a command palette, and session restore.“Velox Terminal: leve e veloz”
- Hollow — Scans a disk and draws every file as a shaded rectangle sized by its space on disk, with filters, Quick Look, Trash with undo, and a CLI.“I built a GrandPerspective-style disk visualizer for Apple silicon that scans my home folder in 5 seconds”
- OpenWindows Kernel — Provides a custom non-POSIX 64-bit kernel with preemptive round-robin scheduling in usermode, page fault handling and per-process memory isolation, plus a custom vector font format and driver infrastructure.“To the bro who said "I don't give a fuck. I'm working.": You saved my kernel project.”
- KeshOS — Provides a from-scratch 64-bit desktop operating system with a custom kernel, window compositor and GUI intended to run on older hardware.“Building an independent 64-bit desktop OS from scratch — KeshOS progress & architecture”
- Matrioska Setup (MSP) — Packages a web-based UI and compressed payload into a single Windows installer executable.“Lightweight, web-rendered installer framework for Windows.”
- Gorgona — Routes end-to-end encrypted messages and remote commands between peers over a decentralized mesh that tolerates network partitions.“Gorgona: A partition-tolerant P2P messaging & remote executionmesh in pure C (1+ year in development)”
- MDRAP — Cleans and validates noisy financial market data by fixing packet bursts, sequence gaps, crossed books and price anomalies.“Why ripping out multithreading made my Python pipeline 30% faster”
- Im vibecoding an mmorpg — Runs an in-development instanced MMORPG with client-server networking written in C over UDP.“Im vibecoding an mmorpg”
- Jun Kazama in Tekken 3 Recompiled — Adds Jun Kazama from Tekken Tag Tournament as a playable character in Tekken 3 Recompiled, with her model, animations, voices and combat data ported.“I used Codex to port Jun Kazama from Tekken Tag Tournament into Tekken 3”
- SealKernel — Provides a simulated shell sandbox in C and C++ for practicing commands before moving to bash.“zilelai - Overview”
- lilc — Lets users write, compile and run C code in a simple mobile-first editor with no accounts or ads.“Using Opus 5, I built a mobile first, mini C IDE, with a pico C compiler.”
- Capstan — Runs a terminal coding agent with sessions, subagents, MCP, skills, and shell access, extensible through Lua plugins.“Vibecoding let me keep building after becoming a parent - here’s the 1.5 MB coding agent I built”
- HKD Kernel — Recomputes only the parts of a computation affected by a small input change, reusing previously computed results with exact-result checks.“I spent months building an exact incremental-computation library in C. I finally put the reproducible benchmarks on GitHub.”
- SkollDice — Generates fair, unbiased dice rolls for tabletop RPGs using system entropy, via a desktop app and a Discord bot.“I built my first open-source C project and Discord bot for unbiased TTRPG dice rolls”