What’s Your Vibe Coding Stack in 2025?
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AI dev tools are evolving crazy fast , every few weeks there’s a new “must-try” for vibe coders.
Some people are building full products with @ChatGPT by OpenAI and @Replit , others swear by @Cursor and @Claude by Anthropic , and a few are mixing @Lovable + @v0 by Vercel + @bolt.new to ship apps in record time.
I’ve been refining my own vibe stack lately, trying to find that sweet spot between speed, control, and creativity.
It made me wonder ,what does your setup look like right now?
Share your current “Vibe Stack”:
Your go-to AI tools
How you connect them together
What kind of projects you’re shipping
Let’s crowd-source the best combos for 2025 . Who knows, maybe we’ll spot the next trend before it blows up.
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Been living mostly inside @Cursor and @ChatGPT Plus lately — it’s become my main duo for building backend systems for a fintech app.
Cursor handles the flow like a real pair programmer, and GPT helps me think through architecture and edge cases fast.
Still exploring how to plug in some automation for testing + infra setup.
Curious what others are using for AI-assisted backend dev
@Cursor @ChatGPT @pranav112000 That combo sounds powerful ,cursor for flow, GPT for reasoning. I’ve been testing similar setups, and it’s crazy how fast backend work feels now.
Over just under a month I have used GPT5 Codex cli and built my own stack for building all my apps in the future, at least 80% of production apps I am confident can be build for myself and other devs using this framework
@vatsmi That’s impressive , building your own stack with GPT-5 Codex in under a month sounds like a huge productivity leap. Curious how you’re handling testing and deployment with it.
Stack does not matter. At all.
Most tools achieve good enough output.
Thinking about tools and stack too much is a lot wasted time. I have been there.
What matters:
Does the result make your life easier, if its just for personal use?
Is the result actually useful to get adopted if you build for others?
Can you get anyone to use it? Can you get anyone to pay for it?
Reading something like
I use Lovable, Replit, V0 and of course Claude Code, I can only think:
"Why would you pay all these subscriptions? why??"
@jochen_zehe I got them "for free" for a year with a Lenny's Newsletter subscription. That's why. Lol
@jochen_zehe Totally agree with this. 🙌
I used to obsess over the tech stack too , comparing frameworks, tools, versions... and in the end, the biggest bottleneck was me not shipping anything.
Once I focused on solving a real problem and making it usable, things started to move faster.
The stack should serve the idea, not the other way around.
Needle
Currently @Needle
kluster.ai
Whatever IDE you use, I recommend plugging @kluster.ai, it makes the code quality so much better by doing real-time reviews as code is being generated. Disclaimer, I'm the founder of kluster.ai .
I use a plethora of tools to compile data and graphics, but my go to set is:
ChatGPT for brainstorming process, concepts and copy
Perplexity for RnD
MidJourney/Higgsfield for content creation
Replit for the build
Loki.Build
For our team the vibe stack is deliberately basic:
– Windsurf + Claude Max as our main coding setup
– Figma for all design work and prototyping
– Raycast as the command center — daily chats with different models + hotkeys for everything
So far this tiny stack is enough to ship fast without drowning in tools.
Raycast
I'm a heavy @Windsurf + @Warp vibe coder, but I'm building @raycast extensions, and not web apps.
@raycast @chrismessina Interesting . Windsurf + Warp seems perfect for Raycast work. I’m curious, what’s your favorite part of building extensions versus traditional web apps?
Right now I'm using traycer ai + github copilot. So far pretty neat with contexts, was able to spin up a simple app in a week. But the token system in traycer is annoying for fast phased development.
@jaga_deep Traycer + Copilot is a nice mix! And yep, those token caps always show up right when you’re on a roll
Labescape
@ricoboost Nice stack .Simple, fast, and proven. Claude + VS Code fits great with it 👌