Part 2: Building a New AI Game Show + Podcast for Channel RVA - Vibe Coding Live with Will Melton

By Will Melton · March 16, 2026 · 1:24:55 read

Category: Business & Economy

Show: Live Vibe Coding With Will Melton

Day 2. The game interface exists. Now we make it fun. Yesterday I built AI Game Show from scratch — the player interface, the real-time voice queue, the voting system, the host dashboard. Today we stress-test it. We're playing rounds, breaking things on purpose, locking in the rules, and evolving t

Day 2. The game interface exists. Now we make it fun.

Yesterday I built AI Game Show from scratch — the player interface, the real-time voice queue, the voting system, the host dashboard. Today we stress-test it. We're playing rounds, breaking things on purpose, locking in the rules, and evolving the interface until the format feels as chaotic and entertaining as it's supposed to be. If something doesn't land, we fix it live. That's the job today.

But that's not all we're building.

🤖 BUILDING AN AI CODE REVIEW AGENT

I'm also spinning up an agent that reads our codebase and identifies opportunities to automate workflows — in direct service to what we're building at Channel RVA. Not a toy. A real tool that looks at what we've built, spots the manual steps, and surfaces what should be running on autopilot. Building this live, from scratch, in Lovable + Supabase.

🎨 CONNECTING RICHMOND'S CREATIVE COMMUNITY TO ITS CREATIVE POWER

The third build today is close to home — literally. I'm adding features to connect Richmond's creative community to the tools, platforms, and people that fuel it. Newsletters. Blogs. Creative production resources. Local creative shops. If you're a creator, maker, or entrepreneur in RVA, this one's for you.

Channel RVA isn't just a news platform. It's infrastructure for Richmond's creative economy — and today we're building more of it.

🎙️ WHAT IS AI GAME SHOW?

4 players per episode. 3 rounds. A new surprise prompt each round. Players choose from a curated bank of AI voices — the app speaks every response out loud in sequence. No overtalk. No interruptions. Viewers vote on their favorite responses via a time-limited countdown window. Episode winners come back for a live season finale. It's part improv comedy, part game show, part live experiment in what happens when humans hand their punchlines to a machine.

Built in Lovable. Voiced by ElevenLabs. Nobody has built this format before. We did.

🛠️ THIS IS PART OF 52 APPS IN 52 WEEKS

Every week I ship a complete app — live, in public, with no traditional coding. Just AI tools, clear vision, and a bias toward building fast and wide before going deep.

Follow every build, access every app, and get the full behind-the-scenes journey:

👉 studio.willmelton.com

⏰ Live Saturdays + Sundays at 10 AM EST | Mondays at

Whether you're vibe coding your own projects, curious about AI-powered app development, or just want to watch a game show platform get stress-tested in real time — pull up a chair.

Update: Filming is underway and a few cast slots are still open. Apply at channelrva.com/ai-game-show.