... around your agents token spend, budget caps, receipts on loops, audit trails, no blind retries, etc. so it saves you a ton of headache, time, and money, to use both together with any of the IDEs (my pref is VS code or powershell direct tbh. Comment from Jon-Paul Boyadjian(@jonpboy): I'm just learning but used to do a lot of QA for developers and wished I knew how to code. But I'm a hairdresser / computer geek :-) Comment ... ... build applications for my team on it, the platform had governance and security, so enterprise-ready. Comment from Vibor Cipan(@vibor_cipan): Give zencoder.ai a try - likely the most complete solution that integrates directly into your existing IDE, like VS

... launching on PH this week, so full circle. Wouldn't call it "money from that first version" though, that one barely resembled what exists now. Curious how many other people here started completely outside software like I did vs. devs who just found a faster way to ship side projects. Comment from Landon Reid(@galax): My teenage son built a full SaaS on Bolt with Claude. A property zoning tool. Hardest part was the data layer, not the code. Every ... ... money. Vibe coding eliminated the boilerplate, not the thinking. Comment from fzero17(@fzero17): My first vibecoded project was OpenFolder a macOS menu bar app that turns your desktop into a calm personal launchpad. I built it using GitHub Copilot + VS