My first app took 3 months to vibe-code; my second app took literally 2 weekends

Few months ago (like everyone else) I also got overwhelmed with all this vibe-coding happening around me, being a developer myself I got a little FOMO too I have personally built a bunch of tools using "pure" vibe-coding.

It took me a while to understand that one of the biggest challenges of vibe-coding is the back & forth with AI - which can save or burn a huge amount of your time. I got stuck with fixing and recreating code bugs and fighting with the leaks that AI generated for me.

My first product - which was a simple resume parser and enhancer took around 3 months to build for the same reason. It failed badly - because I sucked at marketing.

With the second product that I launched which was a no-code portfolio website builder (Fllaunt AI) took around 2 full weekends only!

One thing I did differently was create a .md file which had every possible rule that my app may come across and what to do in that case for example:

- client should not directly interact with the DB

- all the secrets should be masked server side and no direct client interaction etc..

Adding this .md file globally to my agent context everytime - I gave it a prompt saved me sooo much of effort refixing the same code again and again. It is like a navigating map for your coding agent to follow while building your app. Plus saved me so many threats like vulnerabilities, data leaks and prompt injection

Hope this helps!

Here is my current vibe-coding stack:

- Cursor (for coding)

- Supabase (for DB and auth)

- Power Prompt Tech (for generating rules.md)

- Yep so (for waitlists)

- Vercel (for deployment)

- Resend (for SMTP)