This year I’ve spent a lot of time vibe designing at work, using AI to prototype screens, build flows, and get ideas out faster. But despite all of that, I’d never actually vibe-coded anything on my own. No real website. No full app.
For the longest time, my newsletter doubled as my “portfolio.” Honestly it works fine. But last week, I gave myself a tiny challenge to vibe code a playful, creative portfolio website. I wanted it to be themed like the 90s PC games (think Dangerous Dave/Wolfenstein 3D/Prince of Persia).
Explore the website 👉 https://portfolio.fourzerothree.in
🎥Playing around with my portfolio website
I ended up using Google AI Studio to vibe-code most of it, with all the chaos and joy that comes with letting an AI generate and regenerate your UI. It took me about 4–5 days of back-and-forth, debugging strange things, tweaking prompts, and letting the tool surprise me.
Well, not bad, it came together.
Draggable windows. Theme switching. Sound toggles. Pixel art. Ah, this world feels nostalgic!
Building something just for myself and sharing it feels nice and meaningful.
I’ll write a detailed breakdown soon: how I used Google AI Studio, what worked, what didn’t, how the visual style came together, all that jazz.