When I first set up OpenClaw, I ran into a big problem immediately.

I spent $250 on my first day doing what felt like harmless testing.

Nothing production. No customers. Just me trying things like:

• Summarize this Slack thread

• Give me a morning digest

• Explain this error log

• Pull action items from the last N messages

• A couple Telegram alerts

I didn t build our internal compliance tracking tool the traditional way.

I vibecoded it.

Instead of long PRDs, heavy sprint planning, and weeks of back-and-forth, I stayed close to the problem and built in tight feedback loops shipping small, observing behavior, and iterating fast.

The flow was simple:

Hey everyone, been a Product Hunt visitor for years but never signed up, so I thought I'd start by sharing some recent learnings that hopefully other builders will find useful.

For context, we're building FanBase Copilot, an AI assistant for content creators that learns their voice and context over time. The memory layer is critical. It's what makes the AI actually useful after the first conversation.

This was a deliberate experiment inspired by my CTO. I wanted to test a simple question:
Can a Product Manager ship a real website end-to-end today without handoffs?

Here s the stack:

• @Figma structure, hierarchy, & visual components

• @Adobe Illustrator brand consistency & visual components

• @ChatGPT by OpenAI positioning, copy angles, objections

• @Lovable iterate layouts before committing

• @Cursor turn ideas into real UI fast

There's a popular narrative on social media right now that AI can build software so quickly and cheaply that SaaS is dead (or will be soon).

Why pay for Linear when AI can build a project tracker in an afternoon? Why pay Stripe $30k/year when you can vibe code your own billing system in a weekend? The cost of building software has collapsed to near zero, therefore the value of selling software has collapsed to near zero. QED, SaaS is dead.

Are you someone who's built > 10 apps using Lovable, Replit, Mocha, or another vibe coding tool? If so I'm very interested in what is your answer to these 2 questions:

Assume you're the "benevolent dictator" of one of these apps for the day, and can choose to add one thing, and remove one thing:

• What's your most desired feature? Thing holding you back the most?

• What really annoys you and would you change or remove?

AI and no-code tools are evolving insanely fast right now. Every few weeks there s a new tool that changes how quickly you can go from idea to product.

I ve been experimenting a lot with different vibe coding platforms lately, trying to find the right balance between speed, control, and flexibility. What s surprised me most is how far you can go today without a traditional engineering setup.

For context, I recently built @Sendrise , an all-in-one cold email outreach platform, using a no-code + AI stack. I used @Lovable for building the product flows and UI, combined with AI tools for writing, automation, and logic. What started as an MVP quickly turned into a fully working product with lead management, campaigns, CRM, and analytics.

Hey everyone

No CS background. Started vibe coding 3 months ago.

16+ hours daily. 15 billion tokens later I'm still learning.

I was using a Claude Code leaderboard service made by another dev.
Submitting my daily stats became my end-of-day ritual. It was my fuel for vibe coding.

Frankly these prices (now that the free trial is over) do make sense.

Every vibe-coding session starts the same:

Here s the context again
Here s what I already tried
Please don t repeat this

That friction killed my flow, so I built Blocpad (CLI).

It keeps context with the project, not trapped in chat history tasks, decisions, notes, all local.
AI reads the state. No re-prompting.