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By Lenny Rachitsky · lennysnewsletter.com · @lennysan on X · YouTube · LinkedIn
Lenny Rachitsky collected over a thousand reader stories about personal tools they built through vibe coding, then curated 50+ examples spanning health, parenting, work, music and fun. His core argument is that non-technical people can now build useful, highly specific software by describing what they want in plain English and iterating, and that many of these tools end up serving other users too.
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- Describing what you want in plain English to an AI tool, then iterating on what you see, can get non-technical people surprisingly far.
- Most vibe-coded products solve hyper-specific personal problems, signaling a shift toward n-of-1 personalized software.
- Many personal tools end up being used by large numbers of other people, a strong signal of demand.
- Cursor, Claude Code, Replit and Lovable were the most popular tools, with v0 and Bolt close behind.
- Chrome extensions are a common output because people spend most of their time in the browser.
“simply describe what you want in plain English, as if you were talking to a remote engineer”Lenny Rachitsky · Lenny’s Newsletter
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