v0 by Vercel
Ranked 5 of 14 AI app builders by recommenders
People recommend v0 for fast, good-looking website and app designs from a prompt; the most common caveat is that the generated code is weak and breaks as projects grow.
People recommend v0 for fast, good-looking website and app designs from a prompt; the most common caveat is that the generated code is weak and breaks as projects grow.
30 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 19
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 19 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Builds sites and prototypes in minutes
“I just spent 20 minutes and built a fantastic looking small business website for my relative's new business via Vercel's v0.”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “The Great AI Bubble” “In an hour or so, I had a functionally superior webmidi version up and running in Vercel using their v0 code.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?” “I just built a small business website for a relative in about 5 minutes using Vercel's v0”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign” - Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “SF Microclimates API”
- Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)”
Attractive, professional-looking designs
“out came a professional looking website that is based on the logo design and the business segment”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “I don't care how well your "AI" works” “v0 and ChatGPT together for sure did much better than the average web designer and copy writer.”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'” “creates some of the most beautiful designs and mockups when I ask it to”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “How we made v0 an effective coding agent” - Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'”
Visual starting point, not just code
“It bridges that 'UX gap' by providing a visual starting point that isn't just a wall of code.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?” “The iteration speed unlocks something new.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: How far has "vibe coding" come?” Used in production frontends
“With Cursor, v0, and similar tools, I built our entire frontend in production.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “AI has failed to replace a single software application or feature” “My stack is Claude, v0, nextjs, shadcn, clerk, supabase, vercel.”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Generated code is low quality
“The AI-generated designs were solid. The code behind them wasn't.”
Comment from 14 Feb 2026 on Hacker News “That does not seem like high quality engineering.”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “How we made v0 an effective coding agent” “v0 which defaults to bloat”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “A down detector for down detector's down detector” Breaks as complexity or scale grows
“once you get past a certain level of complexity, it's breaking things, removing features, re-introducing bugs all while burning through your credits”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?” “all these tools eventually fall apart at scale”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Why we can’t quit Excel” “The output broke half-way with a red message, the produced design was subpar”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “How we built the v0 iOS app” - Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: What would make an AI builder trustworthy enough to use daily?”
Crashes or slows the browser
“I tried to look at the landing page and it crashed Mobile Safari”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “How we built the v0 iOS app” “It slowed my browser (Firefox) to a crawl for 10 seconds but ultimately had no information whatsoever.”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “How we built the v0 iOS app”
Other AI app builders people recommend
The four most recommended other AI app builders, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovable | 73 | 77 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| Replit | 51 | 39 | 57% | 11 | 9 mo3 owners | — |
| Squarespace | 23 | 23 | 50% | 11 | — | — |
| Bolt.new | 20 | 14 | 59% | 9 | — | — |
| v0 by VercelThis page | 19 | 11 | 63% | 9 | — | — |
What people said
37 of the 41 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I can prototype with tools like v0 or claude”
“In an hour or so, I had a functionally superior webmidi version up and running in Vercel using their v0 code.”
“Lovable/v0 free tier is a good option”
“I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make”
“the same web development done with v0, downloaded, put in a Docker container, deployed to Lambda”
“A little gross that v0 just always goes with NextJS/TS no matter what, but it did a decent job”
“Zero maintenance burden on the team to manage the tools.”
“they optimize for "wow demo" over "this works tomorrow."”
“It bridges that 'UX gap' by providing a visual starting point that isn't just a wall of code.”
“The AI-generated designs were solid. The code behind them wasn't.”
“With Cursor, v0, and similar tools, I built our entire frontend in production.”
“The iteration speed unlocks something new.”
“Made it in about 5 minutes with v0.”
“My stack is Claude, v0, nextjs, shadcn, clerk, supabase, vercel.”
“creates some of the most beautiful designs and mockups when I ask it to”
“That does not seem like high quality engineering.”
“Lovable or v0 by contrast are quite primitive.”
“once you get past a certain level of complexity, it's breaking things, removing features, re-introducing bugs all while burning through your credits”
“they cover a very significant amount of this”
“V0, Lovable, etc really do a great job of this.”
“all these tools eventually fall apart at scale”
“The output broke half-way with a red message, the produced design was subpar”
“I tried to look at the landing page and it crashed Mobile Safari”
“It slowed my browser (Firefox) to a crawl for 10 seconds but ultimately had no information whatsoever.”
“a vibe coding app, except now also on mobile, which is cool”
“Been a v0 user and fan for awhile now”
“out came a professional looking website that is based on the logo design and the business segment”
“the app fails to load favorites, chats, fails to upload images and fails to submit issues”
“dragging down on the content doesn’t dismiss the keyboard interactively like Messages, Safari or even ChatGPT does”
“Many v0 users were asking us how exactly we did X or Y to make it feel so good”
“I’m put off and uneasy reading all this for some reason”
“I just built a small business website for a relative in about 5 minutes using Vercel's v0”
“v0 which defaults to bloat”
“v0 and ChatGPT together for sure did much better than the average web designer and copy writer.”
“It looked fantastic and very mobile friendly.”
“I just spent 20 minutes and built a fantastic looking small business website for my relative's new business via Vercel's v0.”
“The design looks like it was made in a day with v0, that's why it feels soul-less.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.