Can I vibecode NicheMaps?

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Build me a local competitor-app watchlist, the one slice of NicheMaps worth building solo. Requirements:

- Node 22 + TypeScript + SQLite + a tiny localhost UI (Vite + React is fine).
- apps.json lists up to 25 apps with platform (ios|android), store id, and optional advertiser name.
- `npm run refresh` fetches public store listing fields (title, rating, ratings count, free/paid, last updated) via the facundoolano google-play-scraper / app-store-scraper libraries. Respect rate limits; sleep between requests.
- For each app, store deep links to Google Ads Transparency and Meta Ad Library search URLs (domain or advertiser name). Do not pretend you have store-wide ad-running bitmaps.
- Optional: with PLAYWRIGHT=1, open those two URLs headlessly and save a dated HTML snapshot plus a count of creatives mentioning the app name. Expect blocks; document proxy/env needs and fail soft.
- SQLite tables: apps, snapshots, creative_checks. Keep full history.
- Localhost dashboard: table of watched apps, sparkline of ratings-count delta, last creative-check time, and buttons to open the transparency URLs.
- Secrets in .env only (.env.example shipped). No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
- Out of scope: crawling the whole store, IAP detection at scale, "apps advertising now" filters, and niche ranking across categories. That dataset is the subscription.
- README: setup, refresh cron example, honest statement that NicheMaps is a proprietary multi-store + ad-library index and this replaces a personal watchlist, not the catalog.