Prompt Playbook: Vibe Coding PART 5

So far, we've covered selecting the right project, choosing your tools, setting up your environment, and bringing your idea to life through conversational development.

Now it's time to explore what comes next – how to take your vibe-coded creation beyond a personal project and into something that can potentially scale, be shared with others, or even become a business.

Let's get started

From Local to Deployed: Sharing Your Creation

Once you have a working application on your local machine, the next step is often to deploy it so others can access it. Deployment might sound technical, but with the right approach, it can be just as accessible as vibe coding itself.

The key is to ask your AI assistant to guide you through the process

"Now that our app is working locally, what's the simplest way to deploy it so other people can use it?"

The AI will likely suggest different options based on your project's complexity

• For simple web apps (HTML, CSS, JavaScript): Services like GitHub Pages, Netlify, or Vercel offer free hosting with minimal setup

• For more complex applications: Platforms like Vercel, Netlify, or Render can handle applications built with frameworks like React, Vue, or Next.js

• For applications needing a database: Services like Supabase, Firebase, or PlanetScale can provide easy-to-integrate database solutions

Again, none of this necessarily has to mean anything to you. If it does - great! If not we’re just going to ask Cursor for options and work through what it needs.

The beauty of vibe coding is that you can use the same conversational approach to handle deployment that you used to build the application:

"Can you help me set up deployment to Netlify for this app? Walk me through the steps."

Again stick with natural language and work through step by step.

From Project to Product: Monetising Your Creation

Once you've built a working application and have a way to share it, you might be wondering: "How do I turn this into a business?"

We are of course AI entrepreneurs! I’m sure you are champing at the bit to build a product.

This is where vibe coding really shines for entrepreneurs. The same approach you used to build your app can help you transform it into a product or service that generates revenue.

A successful product isn't just the code—it's a complete package that includes

1. The core application - The functional tool you've built

2. A compelling landing page - To showcase your product

3. Payment integration - To accept money from customers

4. User onboarding - To help new users get started

5. Customer support - To address questions and issues

The great news? You You can vibe code all of these elements! Here's how

Creating a Professional Landing Page

Cursor can help you build a professional sales page just as easily as it helped you build your app. Especially if we are using Claude as our coding model anyway - it’s also great at sales copy! Try a prompt like:

"Let's create a landing page for my app. I need it to include

• A compelling headline

• Feature highlights with icons

• Pricing information

• A sign-up/purchase button

• Social proof sections"

etc. etc.

The AI will generate the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a complete landing page with placeholders. You can furnish it with corrections and details and even iterate on design:

"Make the landing page more modern looking with a gradient hero section and rounded corners on the cards."

Or

"Let's add a FAQ section to address common questions about the product. Ask me for details."

You can do all of this work outside of Cursor in your favourite AI tool and then relay the information to Cursor or just straight vibe it inside Cursor.

This landing page can be deployed alongside your application or as a standalone marketing site. Again, ask for options!

Implementing Payment Processing

Accepting payments might sound complex, but it's actually fairly straightforward with vibe coding. For example:

"I want to integrate Stripe payments into my app. Can you show me how to

1. Create a simple checkout page

2. Process payments securely

3. Send confirmation emails to customers"

Your AI assistant will guide you through adding payment capabilities, explaining the process and generating the necessary code.

Word of warning - don’t try and build your own payment processor. We can do a lot with vibe coding but there are limits! Just integrate Stripe or Paddle or some over processor. It’ll primarily be providing API keys to hook it all up.

From Solo Project to SaaS Business

If you're aiming to build a full Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, vibe coding can help you add the necessary infrastructure:

• User authentication and account management: "Let's add user accounts with email verification and password reset functionality."

• Team/multi-user support: "How can we modify our app to support teams, where multiple users can access shared resources?"

• Usage limits and tiers: "I want to implement three pricing tiers with different feature sets and usage limits. How would we structure this?"

• Analytics and dashboards: "Let's add an admin dashboard where I can see customer signups, revenue, and usage statistics."

This is all definitely more complex and you may want to bring someone on board at this stage but you can still code it all up with Cursor.

One line in the sand I would draw is with security - get an expert to make sure your app is secure! This will be a problem once you’ve got proof that people want the product - and are paying you! - so you should have the funds to hire someone to tighten up security.

A word of warning

The most exciting aspect of vibe coding for entrepreneurs is the democratisation of opportunity. The technical barriers that once limited software creation to those with specialised skills or large budgets are falling away.

And this trend will continue. Probably even accelerate.

Here’s the thing though. This is a double edged sword.

Easier building means two things

• more supply

• less demand

Oh oh.

More supply because now anyone can spin up a basic SaaS application. Will it compete with Salesforce? No - but it’ll start to nibble at the edges.

Because anyone can build these micro-SaaS companies though this means there’s a tonne of new competition. Making it harder for your new company to stand out.

At the very same time there will be a fall in supply. Why? Because end users, our customers, will also start to use these tools to build.

They need a new form software? Or signing software? They can go to Cursor and build one internally for their exact needs. No need to go to an incumbent or a new company.

So…you need more than the ability to build. You have to be able to market as well. Building an audience and distribution becomes the new game in town.

I don’t say this to dishearten. But to instead remind people that there are two components to AI Entrepreneurship. The AI and the entrepreneurship. Both are important!

Make sure you are doing both!

The AI Authority Accelerator helps with this: Learn More.

Learning Resources to Continue Your Journey

Vibe coding is a rapidly evolving field, and there are many resources available to help you continue developing your skills. One particularly valuable resource is cursor.directory/learn, which offers:

• Tutorials: Step-by-step guides for building different types of applications

• System prompts: Pre-crafted prompts you can use to guide your AI assistant

• Example projects: Complete codebases you can study and adapt

• Community resources: Shared knowledge from other vibe coders

Beyond this specific resource, here are other ways to continue developing your vibe coding skills:

1. Experiment with different AI models: Each has different strengths and capabilities

2. Join communities: Look for Discord servers, forums, or social media groups focused on AI coding

3. Study patterns: Pay attention to what types of prompts and approaches work best for different coding tasks. Don’t just keep hitting Accept All!

4. Teach others: Explaining vibe coding to someone else is one of the best ways to solidify your own understanding. Richard Feynman swore by this approach and he was pretty smart.

Wrapping Up The Week

Throughout this Playbook series, we've explored the transformative potential of vibe coding—how it changes not just how we build software, but who can build it.

We started by examining why vibe coding matters and how it's disrupting traditional software development. We then walked through selecting the right project, setting up your environment, and mastering the conversational development process. Now, we've looked at how to scale and grow what you've built.

The most exciting aspect of vibe coding isn't just the technology itself—it's the possibilities it opens up for entrepreneurs, creators, and problem-solvers who previously couldn't bring their ideas to life due to technical limitations.

As you continue your vibe coding journey, remember that you're part of the first wave of people exploring this new frontier. The patterns, techniques, and best practices are still emerging. Don't be afraid to experiment, share what you learn, and help shape how we'll all build software in the future.

Keep Prompting,

Kyle