tooling24 Jun 2026 · 4 min
The vibe coders are quietly winning
Three people shipped a SaaS in a weekend. None of them wrote a for-loop. Here's what actually happened.
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I make AI less chatty and more doing.
Entrepreneur, builder, and recovering tab-hoarder. Each week I sift the AI-verse by actually doing — and send back one signal: what the vibe coders are shipping, and what it unlocks for whatever you're building.
2009
building since
weekly
signal cadence
in public
how I ship
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What I learned this week
shippedThis site, mostly while asleepHanded an agent a design system and a brief and went to bed. Woke up to a deployed personal site with a live newsletter. The taste was mine; the typing wasn't.
learnedBrowser keys don't work server-sideA NEXT_PUBLIC Maps key throws REQUEST_DENIED the moment you call the web service from a server. Two keys, two jobs. Obvious in hindsight; cost me an afternoon.
noticedThe bottleneck movedIt's not 'can we build it' anymore. It's 'do we know what's worth building'. Taste is the scarce input now, not effort.
shippedPer-client rooms for proposalsTokenised, tracked client rooms instead of email attachments nobody opens. Small idea, disproportionate payoff.
learnedInsert-only beats clever syncTwo systems writing the same rows is a bug factory. Make one of them append-only and the whole reconcile problem evaporates.
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Things I’m building
live2023→
DIG-IN
food-service dataA European food-service data warehouse and the intelligence layer on top of it. Millions of venues, scored and made useful for the brands and operators who sell into them.
DataAIHORECAvisit
live2026
Signal engine
marketing OSThe robot spine behind this site. An agentic content pipeline that drafts, scrubs and ships posts across channels — so the newsletter and the socials keep moving while I build.
AgentsAutomationNext.js
live2024→
Broadsword
events + brandAn events and brand studio with a CRM and project spine I rebuilt from the ground up. Clients, suppliers and projects, deduped and actually trustworthy.
WebCRMBrandvisit