For years, I've felt something profound shifting beneath the surface of business. Not because I had a perfect crystal ball—far from it—but because I kept bumping up against the frustrating walls of outsourced software development. Recently, through openly sharing my journey of building apps publicly, I realized the moment I've been waiting for had quietly arrived.
From frustration to foundation
When I started in tech, building software meant outsourcing to external teams, endless negotiations, and too often, disappointing outcomes. The frustration wasn't theoretical—I lived it. Deadlines slipped. Budgets ballooned. The product rarely matched the vision. And worse, the people who needed the software—the ones actually using it—were nowhere near the decisions.
I didn't have a solution back then. But I had a hunch: this model couldn’t last. Businesses would need to build faster, closer to the problem, and with tighter feedback loops. But the tools simply weren’t there yet.
The slow democratization of software
Over time, I watched as software crept from the edges of business to its center. Retailers became e-commerce platforms. Banks became fintechs. Logistics companies became real-time, data-driven operations. It was clear: every company was becoming a software company—even if they didn’t say it out loud.
Yet for most, building internal tools still felt like hacking through a jungle with a spoon. You either overpaid consultants, or you overburdened your in-house team. Neither scaled. Neither delivered quickly. Neither empowered the people closest to the problem.
Enter vibe coding
That’s what made tools like Lovable, n8n, Tooljet, and Replit feel so revelatory. Suddenly, the spoon was replaced with a machete. You could build fast, with AI assistance, visual logic, and collaborative workflows. You didn’t need to be a full-stack engineer to create a working app. Anyone with curiosity and a problem to solve could start building.
This wasn’t just low-code, or no-code—it was vibe coding. Creative, collaborative, and adaptive. And as I began building daily in public using these tools, I didn’t just see the future. I used it.
But then came the walls.
The walls vibe coding can’t climb alone
You can build 80% of a useful app in an afternoon. But the last 20%? That’s where things got sticky.
Vibe coding using v0, Lovable, Replit, or any of them out there, are really good at building dashboards and CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) apps - why? Because they’re predictable and follow a formula, the input/output of data. As soon as you venture outside this “comfort zone,” vibe coding - in my experience - becomes unsustainable.
And none of the tools “codes” all the stuff from scratch; they use components for visualization of data (pie charts, interactive sheets, etc.) - but again, in the name of data.
Want to add real-time collaboration? Chat? File storage? User presence? AI-powered assistance that understands your context?
Suddenly, you’re way outside the comfort zone of the AI, and hallucination kicks in because every vibe coding tool will confidently say “Yes!” to “Can we build it?” (yes, a Bob the Builder reference), and you’ll end up in an endless loop of prompting, promise.
The epiphany that came to me me when vibe coding is this: it’s phenomenal, almost magical, to create the foundation for the app (data input/output, data visualization, SSO, user management, etc), but to REALLY build an app is to combine the AI with complex, specialized, pre-built components (and no, not just pie charts) made simple to be dropped in and voila - you have a COMPLETE app.
That’s where Weavy comes in.
From collaboration to cognition
We didn’t set out to build an AI platform. We set out to make it dead simple to add world-class chat, file sharing, and collaboration features into any app. Component by component, we solved the hard stuff—real-time sync, secure auth, scalable infrastructure—so you didn’t have to.
But then the world shifted. AI wasn’t just something you added—it became the interface. And we realized: the way we’d built Weavy made it the perfect foundation for bringing AI into web apps, fast.
Today, our components are more than collaboration layers—they’re context engines. They know who’s talking, what’s being shared, and what matters. Which means you can drop in an AI agent that isn’t just smart—it’s aware. And because our components work natively with vibe coding tools, the distance from idea to intelligent feature is practically zero.
Right product, right time, right reasons
I won’t pretend this was all part of some master plan. The world changed. The tools caught up. And Weavy just happened to be built for this moment. Partly luck. Partly foresight. Mostly a lot of listening, building, and adjusting.
If you’ve followed my journey, you know it wasn’t always clean. Some days were a mess. Others were magic. But through it all, one thing became clear: this is the moment where anyone—yes, anyone—can build serious, intelligent apps. You don’t need a team of 50. You don’t need to write every line yourself. You just need the right stack, and the will to start.
This is your story, too
If you’re reading this, you probably feel the same shift I did. You’ve hit the same frustrations. You’ve probably built a few vibe-coded apps yourself. Maybe you’ve even run into that wall.
Here’s the good news: the wall is real. But it’s not permanent. And Weavy was built to punch straight through it.
This transformation isn’t about us—it’s about you. The tools, the mindset, and the moment are all here. What used to take a village now takes a prompt. What used to require funding now requires focus.
Every company is a software company. Every team is a product team. And every person can be a builder.
You ready?
