Can I vibecode VHS Slipcover Maker?

KINDA · weekend project

price $6/moyou'd save $72/yrbuild time one session for one cover format; months for the full catalogcategory 🎨 designreplaced by 0 people

The core loop, type a title and print a correctly sized VHS slipcover, is a one-session build. But the rich design possibilities, range of 30+ physical media types, 22+ languages supported, and instant generation of covers from a variety of media sources makes this a lengthy project to spin up on your own. That part is not coming out of one prompt.

the prompt

Build me a printable VHS slipcover maker to replace VHS Slipcover Maker (vhs.texs.org). Requirements:

- Vite + React + Tailwind, client-only, no server. State lives in the URL
query string, omit any param still at its default; the URL is the save
file and the share link. No database.
- Render the whole slipcover as one flat SVG die-cut wrap, 10.73 x 9.17 in:
back panel, 1.05 in spine, front panel, each panel 7.4 in tall (the VHS
case face height), plus fold-over flaps. Physical inches are the source
of truth, derive every pixel value from them.
- Front panel: drag-and-drop cover art with zoom and pan, cropped to the
panel, with the title over it. Spine: title rotated 90 degrees plus year
and runtime. Back panel: a synopsis block, up to four screenshot
thumbnails, and a fake barcode.
- Ink and background color pickers, five bundled retro Google Fonts, and
three era presets: 80s rental store, 90s studio release, plain typewriter.
- Fold lines show on screen but never export; the printed sheet gets only a
thin cut line around the outer die-cut perimeter.
- Export a Tabloid (11 x 17 in) PDF with pdf-lib at 600 DPI, plus a PNG via
canvas. Printed at 100% scale the folded sleeve must fit a standard VHS
tape.
- No accounts, no telemetry, everything runs in the browser.
- Out of scope: every other format (sticker labels, cassette J-cards, DVD,
vinyl), movie-poster search, and saved-design accounts. Do not attempt
Safari-specific SVG fixes, Safari paints foreignObject at the wrong
scale and supporting it is a project of its own.
- README: fold order for assembling the sleeve, and a warning that most
home printers stop at Letter, the wrap needs 11 x 17 cardstock or a
print shop.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter) or copy it raw

why people still pay

One cover is a fun afternoon project; people pay when the twelfth format still measures right against the real case in their hand and a whole shelf of tapes needs matching spines.

what you lose

x30+ measured dieline templates: cassette J-cards, CD inserts, vinyl jackets, Blu-ray and DVD wraps, MiniDisc

xmovie and music search that auto-fills cover art and metadata

xdesigns that persist and share as a URL

xdie-cut label-sheet PDFs aligned to vendor sticker stock

x22 UI languages

prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd rather

Nothing worth pointing at. That's why the prompt exists.

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