We now look at actual code less and less. What does your developer experience look like now that we are getting closer to a non-IDE world? I am using @Superset and am loving it so far. In my corporate job, I have 10-15 repos going at once and it's all super organized. What are you all using?
Here's my hacked-together, messy, voice-based dev environment:
Voice-driven loop with screen-shotting so the LLM in the loop can see what's in my terminal and editor. The prompt varies depending on what I'm trying to drive with this loop.
A few tool definitions that give read access to files and URLs.
A tool the LLM can send a block of output to that generates keyboard events, so the LLM can drive any editor/terminal.
A separate process watching a directory and constantly making LLM-driven git commits. (git autosave).
I have some pieces of this running most of the time. But I'm lazy, and doing other stuff, and I also try to use a variety of editors and tools, to see what's good lately. Which ... no stability, so my hacked-together stuff is always broken.
I don't want to replace @Windsurf / @Cursor / Claude code. A seriously good agent and expert-system dev toolkit is a lot of work.
Lately it feels like every week there s a new AI-powered SaaS launching.
Same landing page formula. Same promises. Same 10x productivity pitch.
And what s interesting is the number of products keeps increasing but I m not sure demand is increasing at the same rate. It feels like we re repackaging the same value just slightly different positioning.
Hey Makers I m exploring options for managing subscriptions, payments, and authentication in a super simple way. Ideally, something that s: 1. No-code / low-code friendly 2. Easy to integrate without a ton of setup 3. Handles the boring stuff like billing, invoicing, cancellations, and user access automatically
I ve looked at a few tools, but many feel too heavy for a small MVP. Curious to know: What are you using right now? Any lightweight tools that worked really well for your early-stage product? Bonus if it has a generous free tier or is affordable for indie founders. Would love to hear what s working for this community before I commit to something!
I want to share something that's been sitting with me not a product launch today, but a shift in thinking that I think every founder here should stress-test.
I don't actually like using the term "vibe coding". We've been software developers for over a decade ,are not one-shotting features, and have a very opinionated and strict dev process.
Might anyone have some open URLs of their Vibe coded prototypes on Lovable / V0 / Bolt / Figma Make or Claude Code? I'm looking for some prototypes without logins to test a new version of our product which we'll be announcing next week. I'd like to check it on some existing Vibes.
Bonus points if you have a task for me to user test for you, I'd gladly share feedback.
After using a lot of AI-generated code lately, I've found myself spending a lot of hours on checking and repairing a lot of easy-to-spot security flaws. That being said, AI generally sucks at actually implementing secure code (or architectures), as well as recommending what to do to make your app more secure (sometimes even decently secure).
Have you had this problem as well? If yes, how do you tackle it?
