[verdict][curated prompt][source: airhelp.com]
Can I vibecode AirHelp?
// buildable in a weekend, but real gaps stay open
A useful personal organizer is buildable, but AirHelp is more than the visible intake form. A local app can assess EC261 and UK261 eligibility, organize evidence, draft letters, and track deadlines. It cannot responsibly reproduce AirHelp's managed airline correspondence, cross-jurisdictional legal judgment, funded court action, and professional accountability in one sitting. This is a credible personal substitute for straightforward self-service claims, not a full replacement.
confidence: high
what it is: Pursue passenger compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights
Buildability index · an editorial game
- Price usage-based weight: zero
- Time weekend to multi-day weight: plus 2
- Category travel no weight
- Moat compliance and regulation · brand and trust · integrations weight: minus 4
- Confidence high weight: plus 1
- What you lose 5 items weight: minus 2
- Site airhelp.com (si apre in una nuova scheda) no weight
The moat outweighs the price: rebuilding this is a project, not an evening.
Gioco editoriale: il verdetto dice se un agente può, l’indice se conviene.
What you build
Assess EC261 and UK261 eligibility, organize journey facts and evidence, estimate compensation, generate draft letters, and track submission and escalation deadlines locally.
what you need
- Node.js 22
- modern browser
- SQLite
- user-entered flight, passenger, and evidence data
- current official passenger-rights sources
ClaimSolo is working proof of a personal self-service organizer, not a verified one-prompt reproduction of the managed claims service.
The prompt
A weekend with a coding agent. The gaps that stay are right below, under “what you lose”.
Build me a local flight-compensation claim organizer to replace AirHelp for self-service claims. Requirements:
- Node 22 + Express + better-sqlite3, server-rendered pages on localhost, no frontend
framework; all data in one SQLite file plus a local uploads folder.
- Model passengers, bookings, multi-segment journeys, disruptions (delay, cancellation,
denied boarding, missed connection), claims, evidence files, and deadlines.
- Deterministic EC261 and UK261 eligibility rules in one versioned rules module: given
the journey facts, output eligible / not eligible / needs manual review, the
compensation band (250/400/600 EUR distance tiers), and the article relied on.
Show which facts triggered which rule branch.
- Compute great-circle distance from airport coordinates and timezone-safe arrival
delay from user-entered flight details; no commercial flight-data API.
- Attach evidence (tickets, emails, receipts) as local files on a chronological
claim timeline.
- Generate editable draft letters to the airline and the national enforcement body
from templates; never send anything automatically.
- Track stages (preparing, submitted, escalated to authority or ADR, resolved) with
due dates, exported as an ICS file for my calendar.
- Export a whole claim as JSON and Markdown so nothing is trapped in the app.
- Say plainly in the UI and README: decision support, not legal advice; verify
current rules and limitation periods yourself.
- Out of scope: automatic submission, airline negotiation, lawyer engagement, court
filing, accounts, sync. The staff, legal funding, and accountability are the part
you cannot build.
- README: setup, where data lives, backup by copying the SQLite file and uploads.Curated prompt: written and reviewed by hand for this app. In English on purpose — it is the language coding agents work best in.
What you lose
- AirHelp staff handling airline correspondence and negotiation
- case-specific legal judgment across jurisdictions
- lawyer access and funded legal action under a no-win, no-fee model
- commercial flight, weather, and disruption data used to validate claims
- professional support and accountability when a claim becomes contested
Why people still pay
People pay AirHelp to transfer the work, uncertainty, follow-up, and legal escalation to a specialist on a no-win, no-fee basis. A local tool can organize a straightforward self-service claim, but it does not negotiate with the airline, fund litigation, or take professional responsibility for a contested case.
moat: Compliance and regulation Brand and trust Integrations what a moat is
legal judgment/airline handling/court funding
Who has already built it
Starting from here is still vibecoding: the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.
- ClaimSolo (opens in a new tab) — Open-source, local-first personal workspace for assessing, documenting, and tracking EC261 and UK261 flight claims.
Do you agree?
The vote balance
Ancora nessun voto: il tuo è il primo.
Nessun voto ancora — il primo pesa.