Launching today
Open Vibe
Ship your SaaS with AI, without getting stuck
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Ship your SaaS with AI, without getting stuck
273 followers
Build the skills of a pro coder while you ship a real SaaS app! Open Vibe turns Claude Code (or your agent of choice) into the ultimate SaaS tutor, teaching the most important concepts while you build.
Open SaaS
Vibe coding blindly builds apps you don't understand.
Static tutorials teach with throwaway apps.
With Open Vibe your agent tutors you while you build and ship your SaaS using the tools and concepts of the pros.
What Open Vibe does:
🛠️ Sets up your local development environment for agentic coding for you
😎 Guides you through building full-stack apps (Auth, Payments, AI-integrations)
💻 Explains complicated processes like Git, Deployments, Databases, HTTP, etc along with animated diagrams
🧑🏫 Acts as your personalized tutors as you build and ship your own app ideas
Who it’s for:
🧑💻 Vibe Coders
🏗️ Aspiring Founders/Entrepreneurs
🔬 Learners experimenting with AI
Quick links
Website: https://OpenVibe.sh
GitHub: https://github.com/wasp-lang/shi...
The biggest problem with vibe coding right now isn't that people can't ship - it's that they ship without understanding what they shipped. You get a working app and zero ability to debug, extend, or make architectural decisions when the AI gets confused. Curious about how it handles the teaching moments. Does it pause and explain concepts in context (like "here's why we're using this pattern"), or is it more of a structured curriculum that happens to use your project as the canvas? Those are very different learning experiences.
Open SaaS
@ben_gend it's actually both approaches combined. We use Open SaaS, our free, open-source SaaS boilerplate template, and explain concepts in context as the user makes changes and customizes it to become their own SaaS.
Open SaaS
@lakshminath_dondeti yeah Contral, I think it's called. They take the IDE extension route and focus on any codebase. We provide the codebase (Open SaaS, our free, open-source SaaS boilerplate template) and build/teach around that. And, yes, we keep a course progress JSON updated to track learner's progress.
Open SaaS
I thing this is great! Learning even just the basics of web dev is a big help and will make it much easier to get further along with your app.
Btw I was a bit confused with the messaging because at one moment it is about not getting stuck, another it is about learning, I guess those are connected but also don't have to be, so I am not sure what is this more about, I guess about learning, and not being stuck is just a consequence?
Open SaaS
@martin_sosic learn the system in context using your Agent as a tutor while you build so that you don't get stuck in the prompt-fix loop that plagues so many vibe coders!
This is a fascinating concept for a 'tutor' in the IDE. How does Open Vibe maintain the balance between giving the developer the 'answer' and actually teaching them the underlying concepts? Does it support multiple LLMs besides Claude, or is it specifically optimized for Claude Code's capabilities?
Open SaaS
@rivra_dev it's a tutor in the terminal and its been tested extensively with Claude Code but should work with other terminal-based coding agents. It's based on the Open SaaS boilerplate starter and walks through concepts there in context as the learner builds their app idea.
Pythagora
super cool! Understanding the codebase is one of the biggest issues with vibe coding and it's the reason why most people get stuck. I'd love to see how this looks on a bigger codebase
Open SaaS
@zvonimir_sabljic1 this is a cool idea! right now it runs on top of Open SaaS, our free, open-source SaaS template, so that's already a pretty big codebase and it works great.
Tried it and it delivers. Biggest thing for me: instead of blindly approving every Claude Code suggestion, you're walked through what's actually happening and why it matters. Awesome launch, Vince. 🚀
Open SaaS
@matija_tolic1 Awesome. We went people to feel confident about what they're shipping, so that's the idea!