用 AI 两天 vibe coding 出安卓拍照 OCR + eBay 批量上架卖书工具

Just a story that may help/interest/enthuse others...

I have a ton of books... I have several tons of books... I have always been a bit precious about books... but it is time to let a load of them go...

I could burn them in the garden, I could offer them to charity shops, I could take them to the dump...

But really I'd like to offer each one to someone who'd appreciate them - for that I'd offer them for free.

But... life is too short to find a home for each book individually!! - So I put my AI coding skills into the effort and....

Day 1 I vibecoded an android app to me to systematically photo font/spine/back/inside front cover/inside back cover/internal imprint/and several other 'interest pics'. OCR the images to extact text/barcode/qr-code - to find title, author, etc, etc.

Day 2 I vibecoded a website that would take a zip from the android app to create a file that could be fed into ebay to list all my books for sale - a bit of extra info about pricing, refunds, postage etc.

OK I have been thinking about such a thing for a long time... but when it came to implementing it... I got it pretty much done in two days.

Out of interest - I am usually working on three or four projects in parallel, I don't twiddle my thumbs when the LLM Is grinding away! So that two days was probably a couple of hours of actual interaction each.

Not SaaS - but I will add the project to my github - but rather than try to tweak it, you are better off telling an LLM to see it as an example and then vibecode your own version -- however it suits you!!

Free, open source, this and more - https://github.com/idltd- fill your boots!