Why did I pay six figures for VibeCoding .com? There are generally 3 reasons I buy an ultra-premium domain name: 1) I am working on a project and I try to find the absolute best domain I can for *that* project. 2) I have a "someday..." idea and buy a domain to add to the collection of projects I'll probably never get to, but hope springs eternal (entrepreneurs out there, you know the feeling). Let they who have not bought such a domain leave the first snark comment. 3) There is an idea/concept that I think could be really big and I find the definitive domain name for that idea. In the case of vibecoding .com, it fell into the 3rd bucket. Vibe Coding as a concept is taking off -- and I'm a daily beneficiary (I spent most of this weekend vibe coding a couple of new agents). Though this was originally on a whim, I do now have an idea of what could be done. It was inspired by Jason M. Lemkin and his adventures in vibe coding. Here's the thing: There are two kinds of folks (broadly) that will do vibe coding. Some will be like Jason. Smart, determined and curious -- but not professional developers. They are business builders with an idea. Then there are people like me: Professional software developers (I've been writing code for 30+ years) that use vibe coding as a way to get leverage. Not just for the 20% bump that simple "autocomplete inside an IDE" gives you, but the 10x - 20x leverage that agentic approaches to building software products gives you. In any case, the non-devs are going to have is that vibe coding will be super-exciting in the beginning. You get the thrill of something working and the further thrill that comes from *others* getting value out of something you built. But, here's the thing. There's a decent chance that somewhere along the way, the AI will take a wrong turn. Sometimes so subtle that even a pro developer might not see it if they're not paying attention. This "one wrong turn" happens again. The product still works. And maybe you backtrack a little to get on the right/better path, but eventually, you're going to hit a dead-end. This is the deciding moment. Do you find a way to push through, spending hours and hours meandering through the dark woods of a code base you didn't write? Or do you trash what you have, and start fresh with a cleaner approach now that you have a better sense of things? So here's the idea: A Community for Vibe Coders. The free version of the community lets you browse and learn from other people. But, the paid version lets you post your question/issue (maybe even your GitHub repo) and get professional help. And here's the kicker: The professional developers that are there get paid. It's a marketplace. What do you think? Note: I did not coin the term vibe coding. Andrej Karpathy gets full credit for that. I'm a huge fan of his (along with millions of others). Andrej: If you ever want the domain for a project you have in mind, hit me up.
Thanks for sharing. I loved the You.ai redirect :)
Dharmesh Shah Could there be an UpWork element to it where you're hiring those "ProVibers" and include features that allow integrated zoom sessions and "pair vibing"... Where I personally see the biggest opportunity from a "actual output" perspective is giving serial entrepreneurs and product visionaries (not sw devs) the ability to learn very quickly how to get their concept built without the time/money needed to get the dev team together. Shorten time to market significantly AND allow many amazing ideas to be built that would not have been built before. The other option is you create the "vibeacademy" and offer courses and AI led classes.
We can do a series on this but I need 2 weeks :). Honestly for the "experienced but not a dev" perspective I'm pretty top-tier now.
I love the idea of starting this off as a community-driven platform, which also fairly compensates developers for their expertise. I vividly remember the Hubspot Inbound conference in 2021 where you highlighted your desire to continue building community and how that will become the moat of the future for companies. Now, more than ever, that prediction holds true since web apps are now moving towards the direction of a commodity. As a vibe coder myself (Currently building https://brand-kit-generator-tan.vercel.app/), I find that there is a group that is in between full-on developer and business professional vibe-coder. I find myself capable of reading through technical docs and even able to copy certain code into my code to add a new feature or embed a new pop-up; however, the more I vibe, the messier the code gets naturally. This is the point where I don't have experience or expertise and therefore where I see something like hiring an experienced developer is necessary. Being able to vibe my idea for a developer to see is already a huge shift in the direction of communication parity between devs and business leaders.
Dharmesh Shah excellent idea, in concept. Main question is how it becomes better than the distributed platforms that already exist. I'm thinking about Contra/Upwork for hiring people to correct/refactor your vibe coded project. And Reddit/Discord communities for providing free support and information. Btw, I started running in-person vibe coding workshops in Seattle a few months ago. Happy to support this initiative with feedback, user sessions, and contributions if/when you launch it.
As a community builder and someone who is starting to vibe code (it is addictive indeed!) I LOVE this idea! I wonder tho if a place like this already exists. Tagging Helen Lee Kupp who might know?
Having gone down that path a couple times, I can relate to the pain you’re referring to. I’ve tried both, pushed through and started fresh on different occasions. The more I do, the more start fresh makes sense. The more I also learn why more context upfront and things like github are important. I can see VibeCoding .com as a community. Vetted vibe coders, may be. Academy for sure. Tool based communities, perhaps?
Dharmesh Shah that use case makes sense if you assume today's vibe coding paradigm stays the same. I think in 1-2 years, the quality of AI coding will make it such that these dead ends happen exceedingly rarely. A more durable mission for this domain name would be introducing "vibe coding" to the masses, with expert vibe coders teaching their best practices, open sourcing their projects, etc. The adoption curve of vibe coding will be long, and it will be a key part of retraining the workforce at large for an AI-first world. Build a community that can accelerate, support, and monetize that. Think Udemy on steroids, with a stronger community element.