Anh Vu

I ve been testing the 'Free Tier' limits of the 2026 AI landscape. While everyone swears by Claude 3.7 or GPT-5.2, I m trying to find the 'Golden Ratio' for makers on a zero-budget.

My current findings for the Office Bee MVP:

• The Brain: Gemini 3.1 Pro (via AI Studio) seems to have the highest 'Reasoning-per-Dollar' (free) for deep R&D.

• The Frontend: v0 (Free Tier) for shadcn/ui components.

• The Glue: Bolt.new for the initial scaffold.

The Challenge: Most 'free' models hallucinate complex state management in full-stack architectures.

Vibe coding seems to be everywhere right now, people are building apps just by prompting AI.

But I m curious if anyone here has actually made money from something they vibe coded, especially people who didn t come from a coding background.

I've been a professional developer for 10+ years (WordPress ecosystem, and React, TypeScript, Node, the whole stack).

Now I'm building my own SaaS and I'm genuinely torn.