Had a fascinating discovery call yesterday. Founder showed me their SaaS - built entirely with Cursor in one weekend. Stripe payments, auth, admin panel. Actually works great, they're at $11k MRR.

Then they opened the codebase.

The @v0 by Vercel team recently dug into industry trends to publish the first State of Vibe Coding report.

My key takeaways:

1. Everyone can build: 63% of vibe coding users are non-developers, generating UIs (44%), full-stack apps (20%), and personal software (11%).

2. Adoption is everywhere, with significant adoption rates in APAC (40.7%), Europe (18.1%), North America (13.9%), and LATAM (13.8%).

3. 92% of US developers use AI coding tools every day

4. 30% of new code at @Google is generated by AI

5. 25% of @Y Combinator startups rely on AI-generated code

6. Rapid expansion has a cost. Vibe coding apps keep hitting vulnerabilities: exposing secrets, access misconfigurations, hardcoded credentials.

7. The future: going mainstream or hitting its sweet spot in working MVPs, the vibe coding trend is here to stay, and it's happening now.

Sometimes I have a problem to have a look at my past milestones or things I have achieved so far.
When I think about it, even creating my first product was a success for me. I ve always been a bit shy and afraid to show what I was working on, or I just didn t know how to present it properly, so it took me a really long time.

My first product was an online workout program with a payment gateway, and the monthly price was ridiculously low. But I managed to monetise it and had my first customers. I was probably around 20 at the time.

• What was your first product?

• What would you do differently to maintain it and make it successful?

• What lesson did you learn from it?

Hey everyone,
I'm a self-taught software developer based in the USA (Midwest), and have run a software shop for 15+ years ('09-'24). I just went through a literal movie in life the last 2 years, few of you would believe my story if you weren't in my city or knew me personally.
I'm starting life from scratch, with a blended family and 5 kids. Have not found consistent work since last November, and been playing with AI Coding tools. I realized I get better results than most software engineers using AI Coding tools (and way better than pure Vibe Coders), and that's because I've always spent 80% of my time planning and 20% coding+testing.
I took this spec-first, architecture and planning heavy approach to using AI Coding tools and started building a product, ChainCatalyst, with a good friend of mine. I have a tool for greenfield development (Architect) and one for existing codebases (Workflow). The idea is to be platform-agnostic, and the best planning layer between a software developer and consistent, high-quality results from AI Coding tools.
We are currently significantly better than SpecKit and also have advantages/differences over Kiro (Kiro is awesome though, ngl, but we aren't really trying to be them, they just are in a similar space). We have a group of ~20 (10 daily active) users and 2 companies (software shops each with 50+ devs, only a few from each company using so far) using the product. Feedback has been really great.
I'm still planning a PH launch while messing around here and looking at people's posts, getting into the community, etc...probably within the next month or so. Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself and what I'm working on.
Cheers

We're not going to lie. One of the key places people ask you for help with a PH launch is in LinkedIn DMs (followed by X and email).

Most connections I got were people from Product Hunt, so it is a pity not to use that platform.
I am trying to grow LinkedIn and play with many strategies, among:

• posting several pieces of content per day

• actively comment on other people's posts

• send a certain number of connection requests per day

• do collaborative posts with other creators

• writing LinkedIn articles/newsletters (native feature)

I ve been here for almost three years, and over time, I ve started to see this platform as a social network.

I know that many people come to launch their products and, due to time constraints, do not have time to establish a strong presence here, but I m glad some regular users focus on building the community.

A four-hour flight with no Wi-Fi gave me the perfect excuse to reflect - and write about what life as an AI founder actually feels like. (It s also a decent cure for plane boredom)

TL;DR: Some days I can t imagine doing anything else. Other days I wonder what I m doing.