Founders: What are you actually using for vibe coding in 2026?
Founders: What are you actually using for vibe coding in 2026?
I'm curious what other founders are using today. Claude Code? Codex? Cursor? Bolt? v0? Replit? Is Lovable still part of your workflow, or have you moved on?
When we were building our platform, I used Figma and Builder.io to accelerate the design and front-end code for roughly 500 screens. It gave our front-end engineers a tremendous head start.
Today, when I'm wearing my product designer and UI/UX hat, I use Figma Make. It works really well for me.
My background spans technology, product development, marketing, and revenue operations, so I'm interested in how founders from different disciplines approach this.
Here's what I want to challenge:
Are we really accelerating product development with vibe coding, or are we just building prototypes faster?
What tools are you actually using to build production software?
And does your background change your approach? Are you an engineer, a designer, or a business/GTM founder?
What's your current stack, what have you actually shipped with it, and what would you never use again?
I'd really like to hear what other founders are doing.
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Claude Code in the terminal, for almost everything: a Flutter app on iOS and Android, the Firebase backend, an admin panel in Vue, and even the store work, App Store Connect and Play Console through scripts. To your challenge, I think it is real product development only when the agent closes the loop itself. Mine builds the app, installs it on the Android emulator, taps through the change, takes screenshots and reads the logs before it calls something done, then commits and deploys. Without that step you are right, it is just faster prototypes. With it, one person can build things like Siri shortcuts and an Apple Watch app in the same month.