The first rule of Vibe Club is: you DO talk about Vibe Club.

Something bigger than a breadbox is happening

For decades, if you wanted to build software, you had two options: learn to code or pay someone who already could. Many more people with good ideas chose a third option: a spreadsheet and quiet resignation.

Then, roughly five minutes ago in historical terms, AI coding tools got good enough that a normal person can describe what they want and get working software back. And the software can even test itself and suggest improvements.

This isn't a course.

You could spend weeks watching tutorials about AI coding. You'd understand the concepts. You'd nod along. You'd feel informed. And you still wouldn't have built anything or learned a new skill.

The fastest way to actually learn this stuff is to build something you genuinely need. Not a to-do app. Not a portfolio site for your hypothetical freelance career. Something that solves a problem you have right now — the dashboard your team actually needs, the tool that replaces the spreadsheet everyone's afraid to touch, the integration between two systems you've been doing by hand since 2015.

When the outcome matters to you, you push through the hard bits. That's the whole theory. It's not complicated. The rest of the team are here to help you do it without getting stuck.

Why the hard tools.

There are browser-based AI coding tools that will generate you a website in thirty seconds. They're great for what they are. But "what they are" has a ceiling, and you'll hit it roughly the moment you want your thing to do something interesting or useful in your day-to-day work.

We use Claude Code, Supabase, Github and Vercel — the same stack professional developers are adopting. Yes, there's a bit more to set up. No, it's not as scary as it sounds. And what you learn transfers to real work. You're not building sandcastles in someone else's walled garden. You're building things you own, that run on the real internet, that you can keep improving long after the cohort ends.

The easy path and the professional path diverge early. We think it's worth taking the slightly steeper one.