I built my first real web app after months of learning. Here it is.

I've been learning to code for a few months now. Lots of tutorials, lots of half-finished projects that never saw the light of day. This one is different. I actually shipped it. It's called CodeVau...

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I built my first real web app after months of learning. Here it is.

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I've been learning to code for a few months now. Lots of tutorials, lots of half-finished projects that never saw the light of day. This one is different. I actually shipped it. It's called CodeVault. The idea is simple — I kept losing useful pieces of code I'd written and having to rewrite them from scratch every time. Copy-pasting into notes apps, scattered across files, impossible to find later. I wanted one place to save everything. So I built it. 🔗 Live: https://codevault-production-86f2.up.railway.app ⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/IManss-ai/codevault It's a code snippet manager. You save snippets, tag them, search them, make them public or private. There's syntax highlighting for 25+ languages, public profiles, a REST API, and you can even embed snippets on other websites. I built it with PHP (no frameworks — I wanted to actually understand what's happening), Supabase for the database, and vanilla JavaScript. The hardest parts were debugging things I didn't understand yet, and de