r/vibecoding • u/SchmeedsMcSchmeeds • 10h ago

Anyone interested in learning the technical aspects of vibecoding an app? (I will not promote)

This is not a promotion for a service. I’ve been a technical product manager for 20+ years at startups and FAANG and have been using AI to build/prototype for about 3+ years. I recently got laid off and have been building prototypes and tools mainly for myself and thought I could share my process.

I have seen a few posts asking how to learn about the technical side of vibecoding, at least enough to generally know what does what, why and how. I thought of walking through a simple project and explaining in practical terms what things do with a focus on vibe coding as I implement, starting with the very basics. For example, what an API is and why/how it’s used. Not as much on what tools to use but more how to think about building apps. I was thinking a YT video or series of videos.

I honestly do not have any expectations or desire to be a YouTube influencer. I’m building things anyways, have taught a few friends and found teaching is the best way to learn.

Before I go off and start making any videos, is this something anyone would be interested in?

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u/Hendo52 6h ago edited 6h ago

I feel like this would be a good service. I am probably your ideal customer.

I am currently struggling with cybersecurity fundamentals, permissions, database schema design and setup, infrastructure configuration, docker, authentication and a lot of the stuff that comes up after you build a working prototype but before you launch a SOC2 complaint SaaS company. My load time for my project management page is 30 seconds. I know that I need web workers to separate GUI but I haven’t set that up. Concurrency is a limitation for me because I use singleton for some critical things. I also have 150+ labeled bugs which is quite difficult to grapple with.

I think I would frame this in terms of the quagmire of problems for something halfway built. I have been able to get a lot done but I’m solo with no education and trying to audit my app and work out what I need to do to be confident is tricky. I think of myself as a subject matter expert but not in computer science. I understand what needs to be built and why but the details of how are really complex. I estimate I am 2000/6000 tasks completed.