Productivity · $6/mo

Can I vibe code Trello?

Organize anything as cards on drag-and-drop boards.

🟢Yes — build itest. one sitting

A Kanban board is a canonical CRUD-plus-drag-and-drop app: lists of cards you move between columns. For a personal board there is no moat — the data model is three tables and the interaction is a drag library. Trello's paid value is team collaboration, Power-Ups, and Butler automation, none of which a solo user needs. Build the board; skip the enterprise.

The one-shot prompt
Build me a personal Kanban board like Trello. Data model: boards contain ordered lists, lists contain ordered cards. I need smooth drag-and-drop to reorder cards within a list and move them between lists, a card detail panel with description, labels, due date, and a checklist, and quick inline add for lists and cards. Persist order with a fractional-index (position) column so reordering is a single cheap update. Use Next.js App Router with a hosted Postgres, a solid drag-and-drop library, and optimistic updates so drags feel instant. Deploy to Vercel; single-user is fine, no real-time collaboration needed.
Paste into Claude Code, Codex, or your agent of choice — then steer. Learn the moves in Prompt Engineering.
What you build

A drag-and-drop Kanban board with lists, cards, labels, due dates, checklists, and card detail views, stored in a database.

What you give up
  • Real-time multiplayer boards and comments
  • The Power-Up ecosystem and Butler automations
  • Native mobile apps and push notifications
  • Team permissions and shared workspaces
Why people still pay

Trello's value shows up the moment a second person joins the board — the paid tiers sell collaboration, automation, and integrations, which is exactly what a solo build doesn't need and can't easily replicate.

collaborationno real moat
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Actually build it

A prompt is the first move, not the whole game. Course 01 teaches you to take a prompt like this one to a shipped, working app — reviewing, correcting, and steering the agent the whole way.

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