Starting a Vibe
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Posts filed under Trust Boundaries in Starting a Vibe, Vibecodr's official platform journal. Read platform notes, trust boundaries, launch decisions, and the tradeoffs behind runnable software.
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The next layer of Vibecodr is not just more backend power. It is a clearer contract for what a published vibe can safely become. I have been spending a lot of time on a part of Vibecodr that is difficult to screenshot, which is usually a sign that the work matters. The simple product version is that Pulses should get…
Read the full story →Yes, Vibecodr is vibecoded.
Someone asked me recently whether Vibecodr is "vibecoded." The honest answer is yes. A lot of Vibecodr is vibecoded, if by that we mean AI wrote a meaningful amount of the syntax. But that answer is only true in the least interesting sense. The syntax was never the hard part. The harder part was deciding what kind of…
Continue reading → 03 Platform NoteA Place Should Keep What You Made
There is a strange kind of engineering work that feels premature from the outside. The product is early. The audience is still small. The graph is still quiet. Most of the internet does not know the thing exists yet. And still, you find yourself spending days or weeks on systems that look like they belong to a much la…
Continue reading → 04 Platform NoteRemixing needs memory.
Most platforms are comfortable with remixing right up until remixing starts to mean something. They are happy to let you duplicate a project. Fork a template. Make your own version. Carry on. That is useful. I do not mean that dismissively. A lot of good software, art, experiments, and careers begin with some form of…
Continue reading → 05 Platform NoteBuilding a Place Means Building for Return
A place has to feel safe enough to enter, clear enough to understand, interesting enough to stay in, and alive enough to come back to. A place is not just functionality stacked on functionality. It is an environment. It is a set of conditions. It is a promise, whether you write that promise down or not.
Continue reading → 06 Platform NoteI Stopped Fighting the Browser and Started Building With It
When I started Vibecodr.Space, I had a simple, slightly dangerous idea: a "post" should not be a screenshot of code, it should be the code. Click it, it runs. Share it, it runs. Embed it, it runs. Remix it, it runs. That sentence contains the entire security problem. If you let strangers run arbitrary JavaScript insid…
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