I don't code. I just shipped a native macOS app in 2 days.

I'm what you might call a gringo vibe coder.

No dev degree. No traditional background. Just me, Cursor, Claude, and AI... figuring things out together.

Rick Rubin said it best: "In the past, for music, you had to go to the conservatory and study for years... then when punk rock came along... if you had something to say, you could say it." He calls vibe coding the punk rock of coding.

That's exactly how this feels. Messy. Raw. Full of energy and possibility.

This week, I shipped Respira Pulse — a native macOS menu bar app that monitors Vercel deployments.

75 commits. 31 releases. Two days from first commit to live product with a website, homebrew + DMG release, payments, and licensing.

I don't write code. I describe what I want. I point out problems. I say "this feels wrong", and somehow working software comes out the other side.

What the app does:

Glance at your menu bar. Green means ready. Yellow means building. Red means failed. Click to copy build logs, paste into Claude for debugging help.

Quiet when everything's fine. Present when you need it.

That's it. Ambient awareness without the mental tax of checking tabs.

Why I'm sharing this:

I'm not chasing unicorn founder dreams. I'm here to learn, stay curious, and explore what's actually possible in 2025. Turns out the best way to understand where technology is heading is to get your hands dirty building something.

To real developers and engineers watching this amateur hour unfold: thank you.

You built the tools that let us newcomers learn. Tauri, Rust, the entire stack I'm standing on — that's decades of craft. I'm not trying to take anyone's job. I'm just trying to understand yours a little better.

The app: respirapulse.dev

7-day free trial. One-time purchase after that. No subscriptions. Fair exchange.

Happy to answer questions about the process, the mess, and the magic.