Lua
How vibe coders and indie builders use Lua: 19 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
19
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
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What's built with it
Latest projects built with Lua
- UPTYME — Monitors URLs and TLS certificates on a schedule, checks response content, and alerts on downtime from a self-hosted dashboard.“I built a self-hosted uptime monitor in Lua + SQLite on a Rust-based engine”
- LUC — Provides a lightweight scripting language built on Lua that aims to be easier for beginners to learn.“I made a small beginner-friendly language”
- Omadesign — Provides a native Linux design app with frames, auto-layout, constraints, and PNG, SVG, and HTML export.“Omadesign 0.5.0 — native Linux creative suite with Layout (frames/auto-layout) — live on Product Hunt + Astra Challenge”
- LightAir — Provides an optical laser tag system where a white-LED projector reads color-coded passive retroreflective vests and ESP-NOW radio links players and waterproof totems.“Publishing a novel Laser Tag project after 10+ years of hobby development”
- bro.js — Wraps Express with file-based routing, Zod validation, JWT auth checks, Socket.io and a generated typed frontend client to automate backend setup.“Got sick of writing the same Express boilerplate for every project, so I built a zero-config framework to replace it.”
- justawaitlist — Assigns each email address a persistent waitlist position while blocking duplicate sign-ups via alias and disposable-address checks.“I built a waitlist with nothing behind it”
- 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”
- AncientBlocks — Hosts multiplayer block-based game places with Lua scripting, custom physics, and networked room state, built to run on very old devices.“I built a multiplayer Lua game platform that runs on anything from an iPhone 3GS to modern devices!”
- Block Engine — Runs Python, Node.js, Lua and PHP code blocks in a single file and shares variables between them.“[C#/Polyglot] Block Engine: Run Python, Node.js, Lua, and PHP in a single file with automatic state sharing”
- Penguu Party — Offers a Roblox party game with three minigames: color survival, an FPS maze, and a platform race.“I vibecoded a Roblox party game in 3 days with GPT-5.6”
- Maki — Runs a terminal coding agent whose tools are implemented as extendable Lua plugins.“My open-source coding agent TUI is now extendable with Lua plugins”
- Kanvon — Provides a 2D game engine where game logic is written in Lua and runs at runtime without compiling.“Beat my score!”
- CutWire Prism — Mixes and layers video, image, audio, screen, camera, HTML and text sources in a node-based live pipeline with effects like chroma key and blur.“CutWire Prism: A Node Based Live Video mixer (Open Source)”
- Algorithm visualizer watch your… — Runs user code in Go, Java, or Python and shows its execution step by step as a visualization.“Algorithm visualizer watch your code run step by step”
- Wolf359 nvim rust theme — Provides a Neovim colorscheme with distinct colors for Rust types, traits, and functions.“Vibecoded a Nvim theme for Rust”
Pitched as alternatives to Lua
- Keel — Interprets a statically-typed programming language with Rust-like syntax and full type inference, and can be embedded in other programs via a C ABI.“Keel 0.4 - A very fast statically-typed interpreted language inspired by Python and Rust”