August 9, 2026
Beat drop? More like heat drop
Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
Open-source music app drops, commenters instantly call it "slop" and drag the whole website
TLDR: Vibez is a new free, open-source app for making music by playing pads, arranging recordings, and mixing songs in one place. But commenters barely discussed the features, instead roasting the project’s weird presentation, calling it “slop,” and accusing the website of sounding AI-written.
A new open-source music-making app called Vibez just strutted onto Show HN promising a bold, all-in-one workflow: tap pads to perform, turn that live jam into an editable song, then polish it in a mixing view. In plain English, it’s trying to be a full digital studio in one package, with a retro beat-machine vibe and a big promise that your live performance can be cleanly captured and edited later.
But the real show was in the comments, where the crowd came in swinging. The harshest reaction was brutally simple: “Pure slop, this sucks.” Ouch. Another commenter said the whole song-building idea felt “extremely idiosyncratic,” which is a polite way of saying, “Who is this even for?” Then things got spicier: one user dug up the creator’s earlier projects and accused them of pivoting from failed trading tools and decentralized media experiments to what they mockingly called “dawslop.” That turned the launch into less of a product debut and more of a mini character trial.
The funniest recurring drag was that the site itself allegedly felt AI-written. One commenter said they had the unsettling experience of realizing an entire website looked like it was written by a chatbot and wanting to close the tab immediately. Even the constructive criticism had teeth: one user basically said, "Maybe write your own copy and make a demo video, because this sales pitch is not helping." So yes, Vibez launched as a music tool — but the comments turned it into a referendum on AI-generated product vibes, confusing marketing, and whether anyone asked for this workflow in the first place.
Key Points
- •Vibez is presented as an open-source DAW built in Rust.
- •The software is structured around three workspaces—Perform, Arrange, and Mix—with Capture connecting live performance to editing.
- •Sections are reusable multitrack loops that share project tracks, instruments, effects, and mixer settings, and can be launched on musical boundaries.
- •The 16-pad grid can be used for clip and section launching, instrument performance, and track muting with anti-click ramping.
- •Arrange includes timeline editing for audio and MIDI, while Capture records performances into editable clips and automation lanes timed to the audio engine’s sample clock.