Vibe Coding
Plain-English app builders for non-engineers. Ship a diligence form, LP dashboard, or sector map by EOD.
The Brief
Vibe coding has collapsed the gap between "I need a small tool" and "I have a small tool." For an Indian fund without an in-house engineer, that's the difference between a half-finished Notion doc and an actual login-gated diligence portal an analyst spun up before the IC meeting. The natural use cases are well-defined and unsexy: founder-intake forms, sector landscape maps, internal scoring dashboards, micro-sites for a thesis essay, an LP-only data room, the fund website itself.
How to approach this stack
How to approach this stack — depending on where your firm is.
- BeginnerA single-screen internal tool — deal tracker, intern application form — with no auth and no database. Lovable or Bolt chat-first; v0 if you live in Vercel and Next.js.
- IntermediateA multi-page app with Supabase for storage, Clerk or built-in auth, and a custom domain. The level where a principal can ship a portfolio founder portal.
- AdvancedExport code to GitHub, wire CI, layer Replit Agent or Claude Code on top to maintain it long-term. Most fund teams should live at Beginner-to-Intermediate forever — past that, hire a contractor.
What to look for when buying
What separates a good vibe coding from a bad one for a venture fund.
- 01Output quality on your actual workflow.Demo videos lie. Rebuild the same internal form in three tools and compare what breaks on iteration two.
- 02Code export and backend portability.If the tool locks your data and code inside its own runtime, you've built a hostage, not an asset. Prefer tools that hand you a real Git repo.
- 03Iteration speed.The magic isn't the first generation — it's prompt-edit-redeploy in under 30 seconds. Slow loops kill the whole point.
Common pitfalls
Where vibe coding stacks usually break.
- 01Treating the prototype as the product.A vibe-coded LP portal that handles ten logins is a demo, not infrastructure. Anything touching portfolio data, capital calls, or PII needs an engineer reviewing the auth and database layer before it goes live.
- 02Skipping the export step.Teams build six months of internal tooling inside a single platform, then discover the export is half-broken or paywalled. Pull the code to GitHub on day one.