Do you know that one can now build a mobile app (end-end) in just one hour? Thanks to AI.
I’m here to tell you all about it.
Meet Tolu, a 26-year-old fashion and wellness blogger with zero programming background. One night, she sketched out an idea for a digital platform called GlowGrid, a tool to help Gen Z and millennial women track skincare progress with AI and community support. She pitched the idea to a developer friend who quoted her $12,000 and a 3-month timeline.
Discouraged but not defeated, Tolu dove into the world of vibe coding. Within two weeks, using a mix of Lovable, Glide, and Notion, she had a working prototype. Three months later, she had 500+ beta users and her first investor call. Wild.
She never wrote a line of code—but she built something real. Now that’s vibe coding.
Imagine constructing a stunning website, a functional mobile app, or a compelling prototype simply by dragging, dropping, and visually configuring elements. That’s the essence of vibe coding – to translate your ideas directly into tangible digital products. It’s about the sentiments of creation, the satisfaction of seeing your vision materialise without being bogged down by lines of code.
What we know as the ideal thing to do before a product is built is to survey the market and build what the users want. Product teams in the past spend months engaging logic and syntax to build products tailored to solve their problems and sometimes, at the end of the six months or eight months, they launch and discover that they have over-exaggerated the user’s feedback. So, what do you do in a situation where the users do not know what they want and you have to think for them? This appears to be how the genius Apple products came into being and that’s what traditional vibe coding is all about – Building products according to one’s “vibes” and with whatever helps the developer’s creativity.
Vibe coding is a term that has been thrown around in the tech world for sometime now but has recently started gaining traction especially among solopreneurs, product builders and startup founders. More than just a no-code development — it’s a mindset.
At its core, vibe coding is about building tech-powered experiences without obsessing over syntax or long dev cycles. It’s intuitive. It’s visual. It’s about skipping all the preliminaries and protocols and getting your ideas into the world quickly—whether that’s a landing page, an app prototype, or a full-fledged SaaS product. Vibe coding focuses on the ‘feel’ of the product—the user journey, the storytelling, the flow—not just the logic. It’s where design, tech, and creativity collide without the gatekeeping of traditional programming.
Forget the rigid syntax and complex algorithms for a moment, in the dynamic world of digital creation, this is the new current emerging, one that emphasizes intuition, flow, and the sheer joy of building. Vibe coding is about tapping into your creative energy and bringing your digital vision to life with remarkable speed and accessibility, primarily through harnessing the intuitive power of no-code tools.
Popular Tools in the Vibe Coding Movement
| No/Low-code tools | Description | Why it’s a vibe | Power users |
| Lovable | A sleek no-code platform designed to build websites with emotional intelligence and brand storytelling at its core. | Drag and drop meets aesthetic story-telling. Perfect for portfolios, story-telling sites and personal brands. | Creators, storytellers and indie artists. |
| Bolt | A rapid MVP builder that lets you go from idea to functional app without writing a single line of code. | Bolt combines design thinking with Backend logic. You can set up databases, user flows and launch all pages visually. | Founders, Startups, Hackathon projects. |
| Replit | A collaborative cloud-based coding environment. It’s technically not a no-code tool, but it plays a major role in low-code workflows. | Replit now supports Ghostwriter AI. You write partial thoughts and it completes them with full logic. | Beginners who want to learn coding while building apps. |
| Cursor | An AI-enhanced code editor designed for building full-stack apps in minutes with natural language. | Cursor lets you talk to your editor like a co-founder. Say “create a login flow with Supabase” and it does it! | Developers, Product designers dabbling in dev and builders wanting AI in their workflow. |
| Glide | A no-code platform that turns spreadsheets into apps. | Data = design. Perfect for CRMs, community platforms or internal tools. | Managers, creators, entrepreneurs who live in google sheets. |
| Framer | A design-code tool that converts your designs directly into interactive websites. | It’s where UI/UX meets deployment. Literally drag your idea into reality. | Designers, startup founders needing prototypes fast |
| Bubble | A comprehensive no-code app builder with a visual data base, API connectors and logic. | Think of it like building with LEGO blocks. If you can map it in your mind, your can build it in Bubble. | Best for Saas tools, marketplaces, internal tools. |
| Webflow | A design tool cum CMS cum hosting platform all in one. | Designs responsive websites visually. No templates necessary – You design it exactly how you imagine it. | Agencies, brands, designers with no Dev team. |
You’ve got to catch your own vibe
The world of no-code is constantly evolving, with new tools and features emerging regularly. To embrace vibe coding, explore the platforms that resonate with your project goals and creative style. Experiment, learn, and most importantly, enjoy the process of bringing your digital visions to life with the intuitive power of no-code. So, plug in, tune in, and let the creative vibes flow!
Anticipate my next blog post on potential yellow flags of vibe coding.
Well done! This was insightful.
oh, you’re welcome, Tobe.
This was well detailed, and I enjoyed reading every bit of it. Keep them coming?
Pleased to hear that.