Vibe Coding

Alessia quit a "perfect" job, walked away from a stalled biotech pivot, and rebuilt her future inside Y Combinator with Vibeflow. After two failed ideas, three YC applications, and zero safety net, Alessia and her co-founder realized the current wave of AI builders was hitting a wall: frontend magic, backend chaos. Vibeflow emerged from that frustration. It’s a visual backend editor that offers de...

Will Simon lost a fortune in the FTX collapse, walked away from crypto, and rebuilt using vibe coding. CFO by day, vibe coder by necessity. Will built a full internal CRM for his payroll company using Lovable—no coding background, just frustration with manual processes and limited dev resources. We dig into his chat mode strategy, why he sees AI having bigger impact than crypto, and his plan to au...

Adrian Humphrey beat thousands of developers to win $100K at the Bolt Hackathon—here's how he did it. His approach to vibe coding: strategic debugging, knowing when AI isn't ready, and building for real pain points. We dive into how he built Tailored Labs (an AI video editor) using Bolt and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, why his 2018 startup was "too forward thinking," and his framework for turning hack...

Tommy Thomas beat 130,000 developers to win $50K—here's his exact playbook. His approach to vibe coding: product strategy, systematic iteration, and knowing when to pivot. We dive into how he built Keyhaven (an API key manager with analytics) after scrapping two other apps, why he starts every project with a PRD, and his framework for picking ideas that actually make money. Plus: running a tech in...

Are AI tools making engineers worse—or just exposing who’s coasting? Robert Welch (Chief Innovation Officer at APM Help) shares how his team ships zero-to-one products fast  without letting AI erode core skills. We get into the guardrails that keep quality high (tests, CI/CD, enterprise privacy/no data retention), the difference between designing systems vs pasting code, and why AI should augment—...

I talk with Alessio Carrà about the rapidly closing window for entrepreneurs in the AI coding space. He shares how someone turned a simple domain idea into $2K monthly revenue in just days, and explains why the "easy wins" won't last. Alessio walks me through Context Engineering—his solution to the chaos that happens when vibe coding projects get bigger and AI agents start breaking things. We disc...

In this inaugural episode of Vibe Coding, host Cosmo Scharf speaks with Ash Gobindram, CEO of Kinemeric, about using AI to create "believable humans" in XR training simulations and how vibe coding is transforming his client workflow. Ash reveals how he uses Lovable to prototype interactive experiences for clients in under an hour—from a lending platform interface for a private equity firm to step-...