Vibe Coding Projects: Small Tools for Everyday Translation Problems

Tired of switching to another app just to look up a term, rewriting the same prompt over and over, or finding out I'd missed a podcast episode, I stopped looking for existing software and started building my own. Vibe coding – describing what you want in plain language and letting AI write the code – made that possible.

More ideas are in the pipeline – every project so far has started as a note scribbled down mid-job, and that list keeps growing. And yes, AI is involved: it largely writes the code while I decide what the tool should do, how it should behave and whether the result is any good. That is where the AI stays. My translations are still 100% human-generated.

This is a non-exhaustive list of the tools and toys I built since 2025. Some of the projects mentioned here can be found as GitHub repositories.

• AI Prompt Manager Browser Extension for Translators
  28-06-2025 – A lightweight browser extension that allows you to easily save, manage, and insert up to 10 custom prompts into any AI input field using keyboard shortcuts.
• Translation Podcast Newsfeed Aggregator
  21-07-2025 – All new translation podcast episodes collected in a single feed.
• Dutch Woordenlijst-Checker
  09-10-2025 – Check whether you have spelled a term correctly according to the official 'green' spelling or the unofficial 'white' Dutch spelling, without leaving your active Windows app.
• Nederlands of Niet
  15-04-2026 – A language quiz that puts your feel for Dutch to the test.
• DeepL to TMX
  09-07-2026 – A local Python app that turns a monolingual .docx into DeepL-translated, sentence-aligned TMX and XLIFF files ready for use in any CAT tool.