✨ You’ve Started Vibe Coding Now What?

✨ Why Vibe Coding Works

Creating and building with the lastest tools and AI services is 🤯 mind-blowing, seeing your prompts come to life ☘️ and making your first note taking app is a great feeling.

• Fun: Feels fun, not frightening

• Low barrier to entry: Ships fast, not perfect

• Creative: Lets you lead with design, ideas, and vibes — not debug errors from line 43

But we are still in the early stages, coders and people with dev building knowledge are able to navigate the initial challenges new tech brings, but for the rest of us >Locoders, we need some help. Here is a few things I have learnt on the way.

⚠️ What Not to Do (aka, Vibe Killers):

• Don’t Overbuild: If your app idea needs 14 user flows, 9 databases, and a blockchain... breathe. MVP means Minimal. Viable. Product.

• Avoid the “Template Trap”: No shade to templates — but don’t just slap your name on one and call it a startup. Customise it, my friends. Make it yours.

• Stop Fighting the Tools: If it’s not working, maybe it’s not you — maybe it’s just the wrong platform or maybe you need a reset. Pivot with grace.

✅ What You Should Do:

• Start with the Outcome: What should your user feel? Then reverse-engineer the build.

• Use AI... like a boss: Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini to outline features, generate logic, or suggest tools. They’re your perfect partner to help brainstorm ideas

• Join a community (like this Lounge): Ask dumb questions. Share wins. Drop memes. You’ll learn faster with other 🤓 nerds around.

😬 Common Mistakes

• Mistaking “No-Code” for “No-Brain”
  Just because you’re not typing semicolons doesn’t mean you can skip logic. You must plan your build, sketch it out, workout the flow, what options and pages are required. Use a canvas to draw it out. Something like excalidraw is ideal.

  

🎯 Vibe Coding Workflow

Note taking app (From idea → launch, without touching code)

1. 🧠 Vibe the Idea (Planning Stage)

• Write your why: “I want to make a simple space to save thoughts — no distractions.”

• Define the MVP:

  • Add note ✍️

  • Edit note 📝

  • Delete note 🗑️

• Sketch 2 screens:

  • Home (shows notes)

  • Note Editor (add/edit a note)

✏️ Use FigJam, Excalidraw, or a pen + paper

. 🎨 Design the Flow

• Use Figma or Framer to:

  • Design UI (cards, buttons, nav bar)

  • Create basic layout (no code yet)

• Choose Poppins font (on-brand 😉)

• Color palette: Teal 700, Cyan 600 (Tailwind vibes)

3. ⚒️ Build with a No-Code Tool

Choose your builder:

Option A: V0.dev (AI to layout your components)

• Prompt: “Build a note-taking app with two screens and save/delete functionality”

• Export to Lovavble.dev to help the AI with the build.

Option B: Lovable.dev

• Editable UI

• Supabase Backend built in

• Add notes as database items

• Can setup Auth for Login and saving states

Option C: Glide

• Spreadsheet → App

• Simple CRUD app for notes

• Free tier friendly

4. 🗃️ Add Simple Backend

• Use Supabase (has free plan):

  • Realtime DB or for notes

  • Auth if you want user login (optional)

OR

• Airtable (if using Glide or Softr)

5. ✅ Test It Like a User

• Click every button

• Break it on purpose

• Show a friend & ask: “What would you do next?”

• Refine and resolve issues

• Tidy up UI and UX

6. 🚀 Launch It

• Share it

• Use Socials to launch it

• Post:
  “I built my first app using 0 lines of code 🧵 here’s how...”

🧘‍♂️ Bonus: Vibe Coding Mindset

• Start ugly → polish later

• Learn by building

• Stack prompts + tools, not syntax + functions

• Join the Lounge, not the grind

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