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Vibe Tennis

A Creative Coding Rally

Reviving the experimental web, one volley at a time.

Remember Photoshop Tennis? Well, three Chicago originals are reopening the court—only this time, the racquets are AI-enabled editors, and every volley is witnessed via live stream.

Story

Photoshop Tennis flipped the web back in 2001, when Coudal Partners turned a layer-swapping competition into Friday must-see TV on for designers all over the world.

Now, we’re trading Photoshop layers for vibe-coded volleys, letting Cursor, Copilot, and the contemporary tools of the day enable a new class of experimentation and expression.

Vibe Tennis is a lovechild born from the throwback experimental web of the early 2000s and the modern era, one that presently seeks to define itself anew with each passing day.

How a Match Works

  1. Serve — Player A kicks off the experimentation, forging a concept in the cauldron of the model and AI editor of their choosing. No utilitarian apps, no unicorn startup website landing pages, just freaky flourishes and exploratory vibes.
  2. Volley — Player B has 30 minutes to pull it down, twist it up, and vibe however they see fit with the tools of their choosing, after which they push their creation back over the net to Player A.
  3. Rally — The match is streamed live, round after round, so spectators watch the build grow in real time. Color is provided via live player interviews and commentary throughout.
  4. Game Point — After eight volleys the crowd votes, the scoreboard locks, and the repo remains as a living artifact. The players’ collaborative creation lives on forever both as an open source repo and a live experiment to inspire on the web.

Why This, and Why Now?

We miss the energy of the early web, when experimentation and learning was ever the aim, and online communities were born of shared passions rather than corporate interests.

Questions

Get in touch: hello@vibe.tennis