For Founders & Solo Devs
AI coding for people building alone or leading tiny teams: the internal tools you can ship without engineers, the skills a prompt-first builder must learn, and the lean stack — editor, hosting, database, auth and analytics — that takes a solo developer from idea to production.
It's written for founders and non-traditional developers who want leverage, plus the common beginner mistakes to avoid so your first AI-built product doesn't collapse under its own technical debt.
The Ideal Stack for a Solo Developer: AI Editor, Hosting, Database, Auth and Analytics
A solo stack lives or dies on the free tier. Verified free-tier limits and entry prices across AI editors, hosting, databases, auth and analytics for shipping solo.
The Most Common Beginner Mistakes in Vibe Coding
Every common vibe-coding mistake is the throwaway-project mindset misapplied to real software. The errors that burned beginners in 2025, and how to avoid each one.
The Non-Developer Developer: What Someone Who Only Knows How to Prompt Must Learn
Karpathy said vibe coding is for throwaway weekend projects. So what must a prompt-only builder still learn to ship something real? Ten fundamentals — secrets, access control, git, backups — each with the real-world failure behind it.
Vibe Coding for Founders: 10 Internal Tools You Can Build Without a Team
AI lets a founder build the internal tools that used to need a hire. Here are ten realistic ones — dashboards, CRMs, bots, triage queues — each grounded in what the tools actually do, plus the security failures you must design around.