Show HN: Vibe-saver – a simplified Git for vibe coders to never lose their work
github.comA small and simplified set of commands for vibe coders to leverage version control without getting overwhelmed by the learning curve of git.
Help a new vibe coder out and tell them about us. Or try it for yourself on NPM. =)
Initially, I thought this would be funny, but then I saw all the posts on X and reddit about massive progress lost by a prompt gone awry. I thought about it some more and finally decided to build something.
I've used git myself for well over a decade, and I still remember watching YouTube videos and doing a codeschool course, trying to wrap my head around it in the beginning. If you're working solo on something, that's a big hurdle, especially when the other barriers to entry have gotten so low!
Then there's the fact of how many of us have aliases set up for git anyway. `gca` and `gcmsg "<message>"` save a lot of keystrokes. While I made this for newbs, I find myself actually using `vibe save "<message>"` unironically already.
Honestly, now there's too many mechanisms that keep track of your history of changes. In-editor history, git, ai-agent history in cursor. It's now so damn easy to loose your changes or just mess it up because of too many tools doing that. I do feel like this needs to be unified in some way