r/VibeCodeDevs

Bootstrapped a SaaS from idea to 300 users in 3 months. No funding, no co-founder. The honest version.
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Bootstrapped a SaaS from idea to 300 users in 3 months. No funding, no co-founder. The honest version.

TL;DR: Built Ant Forms (a form builder SaaS) as a solo founder. Idea in January, launched in February, 300 users by April. Zero funding. The unfiltered version.

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January 2026: I had an idea for a better form builder. Not revolutionary. A tool I needed that didn't exist the way I wanted it to.

I didn't write a business plan. Didn't make a pitch deck. Didn't talk to VCs. I opened my code editor and started building.

Sounds romantic. It wasn't.

The reality of building alone:

Week 1 was exciting. Week 2 was productive. Week 3 was "why did I start this." Week 4 was "I should just get a normal job."

I kept going. Not from motivation. I had already invested enough time that quitting felt worse.

February: I launched with a product I wasn't proud of.

The landing page had a typo. The onboarding flow was confusing. Half-built features hidden behind flags. I hit publish anyway.

I'd read enough to know founders who wait for perfect never launch.

The first 100 users came slowly. One by one. I checked analytics every hour.

Then things got real.

Users wanted features I hadn't planned. They found bugs I didn't know existed. Someone emailed me at midnight asking for webhook support. I built it that night because I was scared of losing a user.

That’s not sustainable. But early on, you do what you have to.

March was survival mode. Fixing, shipping, talking to users, fixing again. No weekends.

April 2026: 300 users.

- Revenue: Early, growing
- Funding: Zero
- Team: Just me
- Mental health: Rough

What I'd tell someone starting today:

  1. Your idea doesn’t need to be unique. Execution matters more.
  2. Indian users are forgiving if you're responsive. I reply to everyone.
  3. Bootstrapping is freedom and pressure at the same time.
  4. Talk to users before investors.
  5. The loneliness is the hardest part.

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I don't know if this becomes a big company. I don't know if it reaches 3,000 users or 30.

Going from zero to something real in 3 months, alone, with no funding: I’m proud of that.

For other bootstrapped founders here: what was your "I almost quit" moment? What made you stay?

u/darkdevu — 1 day ago
Check out my social media downloader app.
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Check out my social media downloader app.

Hi everyone i developed an application to download videos from social media, and i would love if you check and download it and give me your review to help make it better in the future. And please don't forget to "rate and write a review" in the play store, it would help a lot, thank you all, peace ✌️. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cybersave.downloader.

u/h-hashimaru — 5 days ago
AskElira3 — Open-source multi-agent automation built around Hermes
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AskElira3 — Open-source multi-agent automation built around Hermes

Hey r/hermesagent 👋

Just dropped AskElira3, a multi-agent pipeline where Hermes is the brain — acting as both architect (Elira mode) and fixer (Steven mode).

Describe a goal. Hermes decomposes it into floors, coordinates the agents, approves the work, and patches anything broken.

The pipeline:

Alba researches → Vex validates → David builds real code → Hermes/Elira approves → Hermes/Steven fixes if needed

Why Hermes?

We use it as the unified intelligence layer — deep reasoning for planning, fast patching for failures. It’s what makes the pipeline self-healing instead of just sequential.

Works with any OpenAI-compatible provider (Anthropic, OpenRouter, Ollama).

Would love feedback from this community — especially anyone who’s run Hermes in agentic loops.

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u/widowmakerhusband — 2 days ago
AZUREAL - a vibe-centric, minimal TUI IDE w/ multi-agent & multi-worktree support
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AZUREAL - a vibe-centric, minimal TUI IDE w/ multi-agent & multi-worktree support

I initially built this as merely a personal alternative to all the other apps of this kind because I didn't like that they use unnecessarily resource-heavy and clunky web tech UIs (screw Electron) and I was already using Claude Code and Codex in their CLI forms so the terminal was far more comfortable to me — but over time, development quickly started taking a more unique direction and I ended up with an app that is not only unique but has the potential to be the quintessential tool for vibecoders...

Introducing AZUREAL — a minimal and efficient AI-centric development environment. TUI-based (powered by ratatui — big shoutout to its creators and maintainers) and coded in Rust to maximize speed and security.

Currently supports both Claude Code and Codex, with its own session store that keeps conversations portable and lightweight — and lets both agents work within the same conversation. Multi-worktree support lets you run as many agents as you want on separate branches simultaneously. Also includes GitView, a Git integration panel with automatic conflict resolution for seamless merging of worktrees, and a Health panel that provides optimization features for your codebase and workflow such as modularizing oversized files and filling in documentation gaps...

Additionally: speech-to-text and an integrated terminal, filetree, and file viewer/editor with tabs.

https://reddit.com/link/1se9nb1/video/is6thyc0lmtg1/player

All in a single terminal window! GitHub link here

I've designed the app to be as visually simple and helpful as possible to minimize the learning curve but there are also a very in-depth and comprehensive README and manual (linked in the README) for you in there too!

Please see the attached demo video!

Appreciate your consideration and hope it proves useful!

P.S. also would love contributions and feedback as this is not nearly yet the complete full-fledged IDE I envision it to be!

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u/tradellinc — 2 hours ago
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I vibe-coded my own IPTV player and released it a week ago

Been working on this personal project for about 3 months now. The whole point was to challenge myself and learn as much as possible along the way.

Well, I finally released it (Windows only for now) and honestly what a journey lol. My goal for the app can be summed up in two words: clean and free

So far I've got 70 signups with about 10 daily/regular users — not gonna lie, that's a BIG win for me!

On the tech side:

  • Tauri v2 / Rust for the backend
  • React + TypeScript for the UI
  • SQLite for local storage
  • Supabase for auth & cloud
  • MPV for video playback

If anyone's curious, here's the link: https://nyxplayer.app/

u/kounaille — 1 day ago
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Workflow advices

I am full stack swe, till recently i was using claude code with pro subscription mostly with opus usually for high level planning and architecture decision and it worked pretty well but those recent rate limits made me reconsider this approach. After some research I both gpt pro and set up oh-my-pi. Idea is simple use opus for making a plan and gpt for executing task. It works well but it drains tokens pretty fast. So what do you guys use? If yo have some advices for this setup.

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u/Dry_Shallot_3578 — 7 hours ago
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.md File to Human-Readable Document.

I have a very large Markdown file (5000+ lines) and want to turn it into a clean human-readable document.

I already have Claude, but I’m not sure about the best workflow.

What would you suggest?

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u/Basheer_Bash — 3 hours ago
I left an AI loop running overnight. Woke up to 20 shipped agents.
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I left an AI loop running overnight. Woke up to 20 shipped agents.

Repo: https://github.com/Dominien/agent-factory

So last month Karpathy dropped autoresearch. Autonomous loop, runs experiments overnight, keeps what works, throws away what doesn't. I watched it blow up and thought, this pattern is sick. But I don't do ML. I don't have training runs to optimize. What I do have is a problem: finding good ideas to build.

In 2026, finding a problem worth solving is harder than actually solving it. Every obvious pain point has 12 SaaS tools already fighting over it. The interesting stuff is buried in Reddit threads at 2am where someone rants about something nobody's built for. I used to scroll those manually. Now I don't.

I took that same loop pattern and pointed it somewhere else. My system scrapes Reddit, HN, GitHub, and Twitter for real problems. Scores them on demand, market gap, feasibility. If something clears the threshold it builds a standalone AI agent, validates it works, and commits it. The threshold ratchets up every build so the ideas have to keep getting better. Leave it running overnight, wake up to new agents.

First session it found freelancers asking about missed tax deductions, built freelancer-deduction-finder. Found people confused about overtime exemptions, built wage-rights-advisor. Found people overwhelmed by data broker opt outs, built data-broker-opt-out. 20 agents shipped so far.

Now let me be real because I know someone's going to ask. How do you verify quality? Honest answer: not fully automated. The system boots each agent, sends a test prompt, checks if the output is useful. But these are MVPs. Some are rough. The point was never "autonomous startup factory." I wake up, look at what shipped, pick the most promising one, and that becomes my next real project. It's an idea machine that also writes the first draft. When every obvious idea feels taken, that's the part that matters.

Three files. program.md tells Claude Code where to research and what bar to hit. seed/ is a minimal Next.js template with 7 tools. run.sh launches Claude Code headless and auto restarts on context limits. No LangChain, no CrewAI. TypeScript, MIT, runs on OpenRouter or Ollama. Each agent is standalone, clone and run.

u/Illustrious-Bug-5593 — 10 hours ago
You built the app but you're struggling on getting users. I have the solution.
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You built the app but you're struggling on getting users. I have the solution.

This is the startup problem nobody talks about enough.

You spend months building something genuinely useful. You launch. You wait.

Nothing.

Not because your product is bad. Because social media growth without a real system is basically random. You post, hope, get discouraged, stop.

I've been doing social media marketing for years. I built a daily growth system from scratch, based on real experience, not AI theory and gave it to people in my personal network first.

Friends. Founders I knew. People whose businesses I cared about enough to test this on properly.

50+ businesses have been running this system. The results were consistent enough that I decided to open it up.

It's live now. Free trial. And its called https://socialgenie.io

It's built for one specific person: a founder who built something real and needs a clear daily system for getting it discovered on social media. Not a basic AI content tool. A system that tells you exactly who to engage with every day based on your niche and your competitors.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions!

I built a free tool to track hotel price drops (no account needed) because I was tired of overpaying.

I built a free tool to track hotel price drops (no account needed) because I was tired of overpaying.

Hey everyone,

Like most of you, I’m obsessed with getting a good deal. It always annoyed me how hotel prices tank two weeks after I book, and unless I manually check every day, I just lose that money.

I decided to fix this and built SaveMyHoliday. It’s completely free and the best part you don’t even need to create an account or deal with any of that "sign up for our newsletter" BS. You just put in your booking info, and it tracks the rate for you 24/7. If the price drops, you get a ping so you can rebook and save the cash.

I’m really just looking for some honest feedback from fellow travelers. If you have a refundable booking coming up, feel free to try it out and let me know how it works for you or what features you’d want to see next.

Hope this helps some of you save a bit on your next trip!

savemyholiday.com
u/AdEarly8235 — 2 hours ago

Workflow advices needed

I am full stack swe, till recently i was using claude code with pro subscription mostly with opus usually for high level planning and architecture decision and it worked pretty well but those recent rate limits made me reconsider this approach. After some research I both gpt pro and set up oh-my-pi. Idea is simple use opus for making a plan and gpt for executing task. It works well but it drains tokens pretty fast. So what do you guys use? If yo have some advices for this setup.

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u/Dry_Shallot_3578 — 3 hours ago

Drop your site - I’ll show where you’re leaving scalable SEO traffic on the table

Been working closely with sites that already do SEO (in-house or for clients), and one pattern keeps repeating:

Most of the missed growth isn’t about “better content” it’s about missing coverage.

Not in a spammy way.
Just structuring pages around real search patterns that can scale.

If you already:

  • run SEO for your own project
  • work with clients and care about traffic (not just reports)

drop your site below.

I’ll take a look and share:

  • which page types you’re currently missing
  • where scalable search intent exists in your niche
  • how I’d structure those pages (internals, layout, intent)
  • what’s worth doing now vs later

No beginner advice, no generic audits just how I’d approach it if this was a project I’m responsible for.

Also not selling anything here - just want to see solid projects 👇

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u/Barmon_easy — 5 hours ago

Claude made vibecoding obvious. We built vibegrowing as the execution layer for what comes after shipping.

Vibecoding solved a very specific problem.

It made the path from idea to product much shorter by letting founders describe what they wanted and iterate directly with the model.

But once the product is live, the next phase looks nothing like coding.

Now you are dealing with fragmented workflows. Market research. Competitor mapping. Lead discovery. Enrichment. Outreach. Follow-ups. Content. Pipeline movement. All of it connected, all of it changing over time.

That is why we built Ultron differently.

We did not want a single assistant trying to do everything through one oversized prompt. We wanted a system that could break work apart, run the independent parts in parallel, and move tasks between specialists when the job crossed into a new domain.

So the product is built around five agents.

Cortex handles research and intelligence.
Specter handles prospecting and enrichment.
Striker handles outreach and deal movement.
Pulse handles content and publishing.
Sentinel handles infrastructure and system health.

The key product decision was letting these agents coordinate through tasks instead of just sitting there as branded personas.

If a prospect is found and qualified, the system should not stop at showing it to the user. It should save it, attach the context, create the next action, and let the right specialist pick it up. That is how the product starts acting less like a conversation and more like an operating layer.

The platform architecture supports that. We structured it as interaction, orchestration, execution loop, tools, and model access. The execution loop is where most of the interesting behavior lives. The system can call the model, execute tools, inspect results, and continue iterating until the work is actually complete.

We also leaned hard into parallelism because so many growth tasks should happen concurrently by default. Searches, scrapes, enrichments, and lookups should not block each other unless there is a real dependency. Once we built around that idea, the whole product got faster and more useful.

The same thinking shaped skills. We wanted reusable execution patterns that the system could invoke repeatedly, instead of relying on fresh improvisation every time a founder asks for something common like competitor analysis, qualification, or outreach generation.

That is the full idea behind vibegrowing.

Vibecoding says describe the product and let AI build it.
Vibegrowing says describe the market motion and let the system execute it.

That is what Ultron is for.

I am curious whether other builders working on Claude-based products are seeing the same thing, where the real leverage comes less from the model itself and more from runtime design, task flow, and parallel execution.

video

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u/catalinnxt — 4 hours ago

Is penetration testing needed for enterprise deals?

A potential enterprise client is asking us to complete a penetration test before they’ll do business with us, and our CTO is also saying it’s something we should get. I’m curious how common this is. Is this the kind of thing that comes up a lot when selling into larger companies? We haven’t really run into it until now.

We also got quotes from two different vendors, but I’m not sure what the typical price range is or whether these are good deals. Our app is compelty vibe coded and pretty small , yet the quotes came in very differently. Rapid7(rapid7·com) gave us a quote of $40k, which seems really expensive, while StealthNet AI(stealthnet·ai) quoted us $6.5k, which feels a lot more reasonable. I’d love to hear what others have paid for pentests, whether this is something we should prioritize now, and whether it makes sense to get it done before continuing to push into enterprise sales.

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u/Extra-Counter-9689 — 8 hours ago
AI agents do not just need better memory.. They need a layer in between the task and acting on it
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AI agents do not just need better memory.. They need a layer in between the task and acting on it

A lot of agent systems still collapse the process into:

input → execution

But in human teams, the useful part often happens before action like understanding the task, filtering context, recognizing prior history, considering role/identity, and deciding what actually matters.

That missing layer is why many agents can act, but still do not feel like competent collaborators.

My view is that this is less a prompt engineering problem and more an architecture problem. Curious whether others see this as mainly a memory problem, a planning problem, or something closer to identity/state management.

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u/MegaWa7edBas — 1 day ago

Built a way for AI agents to share solutions with each other

I use Claude/Cursor daily and keep noticing my agent will spend 10 minutes debugging something it already figured out two days ago in a different session.

I tried to fix this by building a shared knowledge base where agents post solutions they find and search before they start solving. Kind of like a StackOverflow where agents are the ones writing and reading. About 3800 solutions in there already.

Would appreciate if y'all tested it out: https://openhivemind.vercel.app

If you want your agent to actually use it there's a copy-paste prompt on the site, or an MCP server for Cursor/Claude/Kiro.

Curious if anyone else has this problem, and if you try it I'd love to know if the search results are actually useful. All feedback is great!!

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u/ananandreas — 10 hours ago
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Day 10 — Building in Public: The Zero-Friction Onboarding

Today, I completely refined the onboarding process for Build In Live.

The goal? Get users from signup to their first feedback marker in under 5 minutes, with zero setup headaches. Here’s why and how we did it:

  1. Fail-Safe Integration (Proof-of-Work)
    Even minor setup frictions can break the feedback loop. We introduced a verification-first mandate: users must successfully preview their site and drop a test marker to complete onboarding. This guarantees the setup is perfectly configured. If things go south, a built-in report feature lets users flag the issue on the spot, so I can review it and take action immediately.

  2. AI-Native Workflow (Prompt-Driven)
    Manual script pasting is a thing of the past. We designed a ready-to-go prompt optimized for AI IDEs like Cursor. Just paste it, and the AI analyzes your project (Next.js, Vite, etc.) and automatically injects the script globally. We turned a complex technical task into a simple "Copy & Paste."

  3. Engineered for Virality
    The real magic happens when you share. Once your setup is verified, you get a 1-click social media kit with a pre-written guide. Instead of sharing a static link, you share a "Live" URL. Anyone who clicks can immediately drop a marker and engage with your product.

#buildinpublic #buildinlive

u/Chemical_Emu_6555 — 20 hours ago
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Using Replit + Antigravity — how do I create a realistic Earth animation?

I am new to vibe coding. For a personal project, I wanna make the same website as Google Maps. I want the same starry background and a simple 3D Earth which I can rotate, but I cannot zoom in or zoom out. Help me with it.

I have tried a lot with Antigravity and Replit, but no luck yet.

u/iamv3ngeance — 13 hours ago
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