Ukrainian military and former IT professional Andriy Kondratiev created a web application for working with serial ports — and did it with the help of AI.
Ukrainian military and former IT professional Andriy Kondratiev created a web application for working with serial ports — and did it with the help of AI.
According to him, it was an experiment with so-called «vibecoding» — an approach where artificial intelligence takes on a significant part of the work.
The idea for the project arose from a real-life problem. In civilian life, the developer worked with devices that connect via a serial port. For this, he used minicom, a classic Linux tool.
But in the field or on someone else’s computer, a problem arises: there is no necessary software, a different OS (for example, Windows), there is no time to install anything. «And you need access already, because you reproduce bugs,» he explains.
The result is a web application that allows you to work with the serial port directly from the browser — without installing additional software.
The user opens the page, connects to the device, and accesses the terminal.
In fact, it is a web analogue of minicom that works even on a limited stack — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — and can be deployed via GitHub Pages.
Despite its experimental nature, the functionality is quite extensive:
The author used Claude to create the project. According to him, it was AI that helped implement the idea without a complicated setup and long coding time.
The author himself does not overestimate the scale of the product: «Does anyone need this? I think only a few people.»
However, the approach is typical for modern engineers to solve their own problem, quickly make an MVP, and release it into the open.
The project is already available on GitHub, where you can leave bug reports and suggestions .
