Mark Watson

Mark Watson

Co-founder of Airbolt
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Hi Product Hunt Community! As builders and founders, we love the “backend-less” stack: Stripe for payments, Supabase for data, Clerk for auth, PostHog for analytics. But the moment we add even a basic AI feature, we end up having to spin up a backend just to hide API keys, reimplement token-based per-user rate limits, set spend limits, and integrate with the application authentication. So we...
Airbolt AI
Airbolt AIThe only way to add AI to your app with zero backend code
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Awesome app and launch! You should have been featured!! (same with us, ha)
SuperU AIMake millions call a day with superU AI
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We vibe coded Aitbolt.ai (a dev tool for vibe coders, ha) and would like to be on it!
Oleksandr Gamaniuk
A marketplace for vibe-coded projects?
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I literally built Airbolt.ai because I was so frustrated from having to rebuild backends when building AI apps. My strategy now is to just try to hardest to: 1. Just have as little code as possible and rely more on trusted libraries and managed services 2. Ideally have no backend at all
Sanskar Yadav
Why is AI so bad at fixing bad back-end?
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I go back and forth still, I like using subagents to keep context clean in CC.
Aj
Switched to Codex: Better Codex, But Less Reasoning? Anyone Else?
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Very cool, I'll definitely check it out! Would something like https://www.airbolt.ai/ have been helpful during development? I'm curious why or why not and how we might modify it to be.
Rakesh Kakati
I just vibecoded an app that would help with my MBA
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Vibe Coded a dev tool for Vibe Coders!

Hey everyone, I don't actually like using the term "vibe coding". We've been software developers for over a decade ,are not one-shotting features, and have a very opinionated and strict dev process. That said, we did build Airbolt (https://www.producthunt.com/products/airbolt-3) with Claude Code and to address pains we acutely felt when "vibe coding" (or maybe AI application software...

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I don't think it's coming back. I think we'll continue to build tools to enable "vibe coding" (and high-quality code generation). It's one of the main reasons we're building Airbolt - https://www.producthunt.com/products/airbolt-3
Wenxi Huang
Is "normal coding" ever coming back?
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Mark WatsonhuntedAirbolt AI
Airbolt lets you securely call LLM APIs with zero backend. Just add our client SDK to your app and start making inference calls with best practices built in.
Airbolt AI
Airbolt AIThe only way to add AI to your app with zero backend code
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Hi 👋 Launching Airbolt (the only way to add AI to your app with zero backend) tonight! 🚀

Hey everyone, Launching the public beta of tonight at midnight. - https://www.producthunt.com/products/airbolt-3 We built it because we were building lots of apps with AI features and got tired of having to spin up backends the hide OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini API keys and reimplement plumbing like token-based per-user rate limiting. Our MVP is intentionally limited, but we have a long backlog of...