Editorial Standard / 编辑说明
Each story follows one narrative spine: hook, ordinary beginning, turning point, early struggle, first breakthrough, growth, belief, actionable lessons, and closing line.
每个故事都沿着同一条叙事主线展开：开场钩子、普通起点、关键转折、早期挣扎、第一束光、成长放大、价值观、可执行启发和收尾金句。
Pieter Levels
indie maker and founder / Global / Netherlands-born
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. 02Alex Finn
creator-founder / United States
Creator Buddy Public profiles describe Creator Buddy reaching roughly $25K MRR / $300K ARR after being built with AI coding tools. 03Hassam
non-technical Amazon seller and SaaS founder / Not consistently public
Launch Fast Podcast summaries report Launch Fast reaching $20K+ MRR within about 90 days after a Cursor-built MVP. 04Tom Indriunas
marketplace founder / Not consistently public
BetterMarket.io A public course testimonial claims $8.7K MRR in the first month after using AI coding workflows. 05Michael Truell
co-founder and CEO / United States
Cursor Cursor is reported to have surpassed multi-billion-dollar annualized revenue in 2026. 06Sualeh Asif
co-founder / United States / Pakistan-linked public profiles
Cursor Cursor became one of the fastest-growing AI developer-tool businesses. 07Arvid Lunnemark
co-founder / United States / Sweden-linked public profiles
Cursor Helped build Cursor into a defining AI coding tool. 08Aman Sanger
co-founder / United States
Cursor Part of the founding team behind one of the most visible vibe-coding infrastructure companies. 09Anton Osika
co-founder and CEO / Sweden
Lovable Lovable became a breakout AI app-building platform frequently associated with vibe coding. 10Amjad Masad
founder and CEO / United States / Jordanian-born public profile
Replit Replit became a major venue for non-programmers and founders building with AI agents. 11Eric Simons
co-founder and CEO / United States
Bolt.new Bolt became a widely used prompt-to-app product in the vibe-coding stack. 12Albert Phelps
co-founder / United States
Bolt.new Part of the team commercializing browser-native AI development. 13Scott Wu
co-founder and CEO / United States
Devin Devin helped normalize autonomous software engineering agents. 14Walden Yan
co-founder / United States
Devin Cognition became a prominent AI coding agent company. 15Roy Lee
co-founder / United States
Cluely Cluely used controversy and speed to create a viral AI assistant brand. 16Neel Shanmugam
co-founder / United States
Cluely Cluely sits in the broader AI-native app wave discussed heavily on X. 17Alex Chen
co-founder / United States
Cluely Helped turn a provocative AI utility into a company. 18Leon Ming
founder and CEO / China / global
YouWare YouWare is described as a vibe-coding platform and creative community. 19Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher and builder / United States
vibe coding concept Coined the term vibe coding on X in February 2025. 20Guillermo Rauch
founder and CEO / United States
Vercel / v0 v0 became a common way to generate UI during the AI coding wave. 21shadcn
creator / Global
shadcn/ui shadcn/ui became default material for many AI-generated apps. 22Theo Browne
developer creator and founder / United States
create-t3-app / UploadThing Educated a large X-native audience on AI coding workflows. 23Marc Louvion
indie maker / France / global
ShipFast and indie products Built a public indie business around shipping faster with modern tools. 24Daniel Nguyen
indie maker / Global
Boilerplates and AI apps Represents the build-in-public AI indie maker pattern on X. 25Tony Dinh
indie maker / Vietnam / global
Xnapper and Black Magic Shows the small-team creator-tool path amplified by X. 26Danny Postma
indie maker / Netherlands / global
HeadshotPro Built AI products in public and turned practical user pain into revenue. 27Nicola Manzini
AI game builder / Italy / global
vibe-coded web games Named in public trend coverage as a small-audience maker who achieved viral success. 28Cemil Sevim
AI game builder / Turkey / global
vibe-coded web games Named in public trend coverage as a small-audience vibe-coding game maker. 29Riley Brown
AI creator and builder / United States
AI app experiments Popularized fast AI app-building workflows for a large audience. 30McKay Wrigley
AI builder and educator / United States
AI demos and templates Built and taught AI-native applications in public. 31Sully Omar
AI builder and creator / Global
AI automations and apps Represents the creator-founder path of shipping AI workflows publicly. 32Jason Zhou
founder / Global
AI micro-SaaS portfolio Represents the portfolio-of-small-products approach enabled by AI coding. 33Greg Isenberg
founder and investor / Canada / United States
AI community products Uses X to popularize AI-native micro-startup playbooks. 34Matt Shumer
AI founder / United States
HyperWrite / OthersideAI Built AI products and shares agent-building lessons publicly. 35Logan Kilpatrick
developer relations leader / United States
AI developer education Helps translate AI building practices for developer audiences. 36Swizec Teller
engineer and educator / United States
AI-assisted engineering education Teaches practical AI-assisted development and product engineering. 37Justin Welsh
creator entrepreneur / United States
creator business systems Uses lightweight tools and public systems to build a creator business. 38Lenny Rachitsky
newsletter and community founder / United States
Lenny’s Newsletter Not a vibe coder, but a key X-native product education operator whose systems inspire AI builders. 39Dan Shipper
founder and writer / United States
Every / AI products Builds and documents AI-native workflows for knowledge workers. 40Nick Dobos
AI builder / United States
Grimoire and prompt tools Known for AI coding prompt systems used by builders. 41Simon Willison
developer and writer / United Kingdom
Datasette / LLM tools Builds practical open-source AI tools and documents the craft. 42Steve Krouse
founder / United States
Val Town Val Town became a useful place for tiny AI-assisted programs. 43Josh Miller
founder and product leader / United States
The Browser Company / Dia Represents AI-native product building with strong public narrative. 44David Crawshaw
engineer-founder / Global
infrastructure tools Shows the infrastructure discipline that vibe-coded products need after demos. 45Zach Yadegari
teen founder / United States
Cal AI Cal AI is widely cited as a young-founder AI app revenue story. 46Henry Shi
co-founder / United States
Cal AI Co-built a viral AI calorie tracking product. 47Blake Anderson
co-founder / United States
Cal AI Part of the Cal AI founding story around fast consumer app growth. 48Sahil Lavingia
founder / United States
Gumroad / Flexile Longtime public builder whose tools and writing influence AI indie founders. 49David Heinemeier Hansson
founder and programmer / United States / Denmark
Basecamp / Rails Not a vibe coder, but a counterweight voice on durable software craft for AI builders. 50Patrick Collison
co-founder and CEO / United States / Ireland
Stripe Stripe is payment infrastructure for many AI-built startups.