X-native builders, AI-assisted products, public-source profiles

50 people turning AI coding from demos into outcomes.

A bilingual hall of fame for founders, indie hackers, tool makers, and creator-builders whose work shaped the vibe-coding moment. Every profile is written as a reported interview-style story with English and Chinese paired paragraph by paragraph.

Editorial Standard / 编辑说明

These pages are reported interview-style profiles based on public web research and a source-deepening queue. They are not presented as live private interviews. Unsourced childhood details are explicitly marked as unavailable rather than invented.

这些页面是基于公开资料整理的采访体画像，不冒充私人现场采访。没有可靠公开来源的童年细节，会明确写成“未公开”，不编造成事实。

01

Pieter Levels

indie maker and founder

fly.pieter.com and a portfolio of small internet businesses His AI-assisted browser flight simulator became a canonical vibe-coding revenue story, with public reports describing large advertising revenue. 02

Alex Finn

creator-founder

Creator Buddy Public profiles describe Creator Buddy reaching roughly $25K MRR / $300K ARR after being built with AI coding tools. 03

Hassam

non-technical Amazon seller and SaaS founder

Launch Fast Podcast summaries report Launch Fast reaching $20K+ MRR within about 90 days after a Cursor-built MVP. 04

Tom Indriunas

marketplace founder

BetterMarket.io A public course testimonial claims $8.7K MRR in the first month after using AI coding workflows. 05

Michael Truell

co-founder and CEO

Cursor Cursor is reported to have surpassed multi-billion-dollar annualized revenue in 2026. 06

Sualeh Asif

co-founder

Cursor Cursor became one of the fastest-growing AI developer-tool businesses. 07

Arvid Lunnemark

co-founder

Cursor Helped build Cursor into a defining AI coding tool. 08

Aman Sanger

co-founder

Cursor Part of the founding team behind one of the most visible vibe-coding infrastructure companies. 09

Anton Osika

co-founder and CEO

Lovable Lovable became a breakout AI app-building platform frequently associated with vibe coding. 10

Amjad Masad

founder and CEO

Replit Replit became a major venue for non-programmers and founders building with AI agents. 11

Eric Simons

co-founder and CEO

Bolt.new Bolt became a widely used prompt-to-app product in the vibe-coding stack. 12

Albert Phelps

co-founder

Bolt.new Part of the team commercializing browser-native AI development. 13

Scott Wu

co-founder and CEO

Devin Devin helped normalize autonomous software engineering agents. 14

Walden Yan

co-founder

Devin Cognition became a prominent AI coding agent company. 15

Roy Lee

co-founder

Cluely Cluely used controversy and speed to create a viral AI assistant brand. 16

Neel Shanmugam

co-founder

Cluely Cluely sits in the broader AI-native app wave discussed heavily on X. 17

Alex Chen

co-founder

Cluely Helped turn a provocative AI utility into a company. 18

Leon Ming

founder and CEO

YouWare YouWare is described as a vibe-coding platform and creative community. 19

Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and builder

vibe coding concept Coined the term vibe coding on X in February 2025. 20

Guillermo Rauch

founder and CEO

Vercel / v0 v0 became a common way to generate UI during the AI coding wave. 21

shadcn

creator

shadcn/ui shadcn/ui became default material for many AI-generated apps. 22

Theo Browne

developer creator and founder

create-t3-app / UploadThing Educated a large X-native audience on AI coding workflows. 23

Marc Louvion

indie maker

ShipFast and indie products Built a public indie business around shipping faster with modern tools. 24

Daniel Nguyen

indie maker

Boilerplates and AI apps Represents the build-in-public AI indie maker pattern on X. 25

Tony Dinh

indie maker

Xnapper and Black Magic Shows the small-team creator-tool path amplified by X. 26

Danny Postma

indie maker

HeadshotPro Built AI products in public and turned practical user pain into revenue. 27

Nicola Manzini

AI game builder

vibe-coded web games Named in public trend coverage as a small-audience maker who achieved viral success. 28

Cemil Sevim

AI game builder

vibe-coded web games Named in public trend coverage as a small-audience vibe-coding game maker. 29

Riley Brown

AI creator and builder

AI app experiments Popularized fast AI app-building workflows for a large audience. 30

McKay Wrigley

AI builder and educator

AI demos and templates Built and taught AI-native applications in public. 31

Sully Omar

AI builder and creator

AI automations and apps Represents the creator-founder path of shipping AI workflows publicly. 32

Jason Zhou

founder

AI micro-SaaS portfolio Represents the portfolio-of-small-products approach enabled by AI coding. 33

Greg Isenberg

founder and investor

AI community products Uses X to popularize AI-native micro-startup playbooks. 34

Matt Shumer

AI founder

HyperWrite / OthersideAI Built AI products and shares agent-building lessons publicly. 35

Logan Kilpatrick

developer relations leader

AI developer education Helps translate AI building practices for developer audiences. 36

Swizec Teller

engineer and educator

AI-assisted engineering education Teaches practical AI-assisted development and product engineering. 37

Justin Welsh

creator entrepreneur

creator business systems Uses lightweight tools and public systems to build a creator business. 38

Lenny Rachitsky

newsletter and community founder

Lenny’s Newsletter Not a vibe coder, but a key X-native product education operator whose systems inspire AI builders. 39

Dan Shipper

founder and writer

Every / AI products Builds and documents AI-native workflows for knowledge workers. 40

Nick Dobos

AI builder

Grimoire and prompt tools Known for AI coding prompt systems used by builders. 41

Simon Willison

developer and writer

Datasette / LLM tools Builds practical open-source AI tools and documents the craft. 42

Steve Krouse

founder

Val Town Val Town became a useful place for tiny AI-assisted programs. 43

Josh Miller

founder and product leader

The Browser Company / Dia Represents AI-native product building with strong public narrative. 44

David Crawshaw

engineer-founder

infrastructure tools Shows the infrastructure discipline that vibe-coded products need after demos. 45

Zach Yadegari

teen founder

Cal AI Cal AI is widely cited as a young-founder AI app revenue story. 46

Henry Shi

co-founder

Cal AI Co-built a viral AI calorie tracking product. 47

Blake Anderson

co-founder

Cal AI Part of the Cal AI founding story around fast consumer app growth. 48

Sahil Lavingia

founder

Gumroad / Flexile Longtime public builder whose tools and writing influence AI indie founders. 49

David Heinemeier Hansson

founder and programmer

Basecamp / Rails Not a vibe coder, but a counterweight voice on durable software craft for AI builders. 50

Patrick Collison

co-founder and CEO

Stripe Stripe is payment infrastructure for many AI-built startups.