Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel art broadcasts

Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, there’s a lot to love about Ribbie , a vibe-coded website that turns real-time Major League Baseball (MLB) data into 8-bit broadcasts with arcade-style, animated pixel art. “I love how much data is available to baseball fans […] but when I try to follow a game with ESPN Gamecast, I find it kind of boring,” Ribbie creator Eric Brownrout told TechCrunch. Still, the idea for Ribbie didn’t materialize until Brownrout generated a pixel-art image of Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber to use as his fantasy baseball team’s logo. “I love the aesthetic, and started thinking about ways I might be able to apply it to a data or visualization tool,” Brownrout said. “A quick Google search revealed the MLB public StatsAPI, and I realized I could theoretically recreate an entire baseball game in the same pixel format.” Image Credits: Ribbie (opens in a new window) Like many other tech workers in San Francisco, Brownrout has now spent many nights experimenting with Claude Code . He stands out, though, because his tinkering yielded something that’s delightful. “I used Claude Code and Codex extensively to turn a project that would have easily taken months into something I could build and launch in a few weekends,” he said. “I used Codex to build the image- and sprite-generation workflow, and Claude Code helped with the web app development. …