... first vibe code attempt was actually Anthos Adaptive Learning an AI-powered homeschool curriculum platform I'm building with my wife Nicole, a certified curriculum designer. Tool used: Claude (via Claude Code) as my primary coding agent inside of VSCode for local editing. I am also using Claude Cowork to plan out the full stack and scope out the requirements before it creates the build.md for the project. Most difficult part: Honestly, learning that vibe coding isn't "describe ... ... opinion, these tools work best as extensions for "good enough" engineers who understand the basics, know how to debug, work with databases and can reason about systems. For them (us), tools like Lovable, Cursor and Windsurf e.g. vibe-coding massively

... March 15th after our first demo went viral with 200 users on waitlist. We were on the right path: a niche tool to only build mobile apps. Soon hitting 50 new signups daily. All these signups came with massive LLM costs. Starting with just ~$4K, we burned through 30% of our budget in the first week with only $260 MRR. Our well-funded competitors