Chris Smallfield

You spend 4 hours on Cursor or v0. You prompt, the AI generates, and your app comes to life right before your eyes. It s smooth, it s thrilling. An instant hit of dopamine. You feel like a tech genius.

Then comes the time to market it.

Suddenly, you have to open Meta Ads Manager, write hooks, script a video, fight the algorithm, and potentially face total market indifference. All that high energy immediately tanks. It s slow, it s thankless, and it s uncomfortable.

The brutal truth: Vibe Coding has made building so easy and addictive that we unconsciously use it as an excuse to procrastinate on distribution. We d rather stack a 12th feature in our safe space than go out and hunt for our first paying customer.

A year ago, I started building Crayon because I wanted a creative editor that combined the simplicity of Canva with the power of professional design software.

As I kept building, I realized creators often had to jump between multiple apps just to finish one project. Design in one app, animate in another, edit vectors somewhere else, then export and repeat.

I wanted to solve that.

Here are a few features I'm most proud of: