Ruby on Rails
How vibe coders and indie builders use Ruby on Rails: 25 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
25
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
<0.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
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
- Hotwire 6
- PostgreSQL 6
- React 5
- Tailwind CSS 4
- Turbo 3
- Kamal 3
- Stripe 3
- Hotwire Native 2
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Ruby on Rails
- Little Memory — Lets users write one line a day in a journal and resurfaces each entry a year later, with entries stored on the phone and synced via iCloud.“After 15 years, I'm moving everyone's journal entries off my servers and onto their phones”
- Radius — Lets people post an planned activity like a coffee, ride, or coding session and invites others to join.“Built something to remove the friction from meeting new people”
- Margin — Analyzes a YouTube channel's back catalogue and comments to report audience patterns, then generates video briefs and stress-tests them against a simulated audience.“I built a tool that tells me what video to make next, and whether it'll land — before I film it. 2 months in, zero paying users. What am I missing?”
- IShipThis — Maps indie founders by city, letting them create public profiles and list the products they have shipped.“I made an Airbnb-style map for indie founders. Would you actually use this?”
- Larpin — Provides a parody LinkedIn-style global feed where users post honest, buzzword-scored 'larp' updates and generate maxxing posts.“I made a parody LinkedIn with a global feed where everyone admits they're larping”
- One Shot — Provides a Rails starter kit with passwordless and Google/Apple auth, Stripe billing, Resend email, Hotwire Native mobile shells, and Kamal deployment preconfigured.“Trying to break my side project hat helps me one shot prototypes, looking for testers + feedback”
- TenMatch — Lets players search and filter French tennis tournaments by location, ranking, surface, date and price, with map and calendar views.“I turned 22,000 French tennis tournaments into a fast searchable Rails app”
- Homio — Shares household expense splitting, chores, shopping lists and a calendar among people who live together.“After 5 months building solo, I launched Homio — an app to run your home with your partner or roommates (feedback welcome)”
- Keep Your Tribe — Tracks contact intervals, interaction history, and recurring dates for people you want to stay in touch with, and reminds you when check-ins are due.“I built a personal relationship tracker after repeatedly losing touch with people I care about”
- SportLane — Logs workout sets offline and tracks routines, personal records, and progression charts, with optional self-hosting and ChatGPT integration.“I built the workout tracker I wanted: offline, open source, and no subscription”
- Vidha — Lets users show different profile details and pictures to different groups of followers on a social network.“I built a social media that lets you customize your profile as much as you want for different audiences”
- Welf — Tracks net worth across investments, cash, super and liabilities, and projects FIRE scenarios.“I built a net worth & FIRE tracker”
- Margin — Captures ideas tied to videos a user watches and generates new video ideas from their watch history.“I made a second brain that turns the videos you watch into your next video ideas”
- Forgot The Game — Lets groups search for games and organize them on a shared board with notes, messages, images and reactions.“Online backlog organizer!”
- Milkcrate — Presents record store Discogs inventories as browsable curated crates organized by genre and new arrivals.“Digging for records in the Discogs era”