What inspired you to build this?
I've been rejected by accelerators more than 14 times. Every time, the gap wasn't the idea — it was that I couldn't ship. So the first version of this dream was simple: a platform that let people like me, who had real ideas but no way to build them, finally ship. Then vibe coding tools showed up promising exactly that — and they partially delivered. Great for a five-minute demo, unreliable the moment you needed something real. That gap between the promise and what actually got delivered is what pushed me to stop waiting for someone else to close it.
What problem are you trying to solve?
Vibe coding tools have the AI write your actual code on every prompt — so the same request can produce different results, one small edit can silently break something unrelated, and the whole thing gets less reliable as the app grows, not more. That's fine for a demo. It's not fine for something you'd actually ship. ENGIN solves this by never letting the AI touch code directly — it only writes a structured spec, and a separate, deterministic compiler turns that into real code. Same input, same output, every time.
How did your approach evolve while building it?
It started as a mission for non-technical founders — people getting rejected the way I was, for the same reason. But the deeper we got into it, the clearer it became: the reliability problem vibe coding tools have isn't a "non-technical founder" problem, it's an *industry* problem. Engineers hit the same walls. So the goal evolved from "a tool for people who can't code" into something bigger — bringing real, concrete innovation to app-building for the tech world as a whole, not a consolation prize for people locked out of it.
