Vibe Coder's Life is a free newsletter about vibe coding and AI news for builders shipping with Cursor, Claude, and modern AI tools. Sign up and I will email you the 2026 stack I actually use, plus the startup credits and funding options worth applying for.
I'm Viktor — founder, consultant, and serial vibe coder from Budapest. This newsletter shares what I'm building, breaking, and shipping with AI — practical AI news for people who vibe code instead of memorizing syntax.
No hype. Curated news on the tools, models, and moves that actually matter for people who build with AI — not just follow it.
Real progress on side projects and experiments — wins, failures, and what I'd do differently. The stories land in the newsletter.
Honest takes on the stack behind this newsletter, with affiliate links where they exist so you always know the score.
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Approved for Meta's Global AI Developer Hackathon: ten days, Meta's newest models and $1M in prizes. Dates, EU/Hungary eligibility, credits and how to apply before 25 October.
I put a small notes app on Lathe Free, then Starter — Apps, Postgres 17, Supabase-style Auth, Redis, SeaweedFS, NATS, CouchDB, backups, and restore — and wrote down what actually happened.
Cursor vs Claude Code vs Codex vs Antigravity — a fit guide for vibe coders on one paid tier. Interactive chooser, full roster, no single winner.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 Oct 2026. Here's Meta's full comparison sheet, what Wonder costs on the API ($4/$20 per million tokens), why Wonder Full is Muse Code-only, and what works from Hungary and the EU.
Stripe accepted me. Subscribe for the solo apply list, Claude Startups status, and investor paths — with amounts, eligibility, and apply links.
Cursor, GitHub, Vercel, Neon, Resend, Stripe, Apify, Revolut, Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, GoDaddy — the exact stack behind vibecoderslife.com, with honest takes, three dollar budget tiers, and the tools I actually keep.
I run a lot of domains on Amazon SES, so I built the control plane I wanted. Monitor every SES account, region and domain in one place, keep delivery in your own AWS account, and send transactional mail through an optional durable API. 14-day trial, no card.
Every DevDay launch from dots to Pro 500, plus the month’s model drops — GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.8, Grok 4.7 — with prices, free tiers, and what works from Hungary and the EU.
How to charge for a vibe-coded project — Stripe Checkout as the start-here (transaction fees apply), Polar / Lemon Squeezy / Paddle as Merchant of Record, PayPal, BLIK and SimplePay for CEE, plus Wise and Revolut for near-zero banking FX.
A searchable directory of AI assistants, hosting, automation, and the stack I recommend — not my own products. Those live on Works. Affiliate links are called out.
A practical 104-page playbook + 100 Actor ideas + 80+ AI prompts + TypeScript starter Actor + launch templates — built from real Store launches, failures, and pricing decisions.
Voice to structured Markdown prompts for Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI coding agents. Free MIT CLI with your own API key — speak once, then @ the prompt file.
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Vibe coding means building software by describing outcomes to AI tools — Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt — and iterating in plain language instead of hand-writing every line. Vibe Coder's Life documents that workflow for non-developers who still ship real products.
Vibe Coder's Life is a free website and newsletter by Viktor. It publishes AI news, vibe coding guides, a searchable AI tools directory, products and open tools on Works (including the paid Apify Playbook), and build-in-public posts.
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Browse 50+ tools — Cursor, Claude, Replit, Lovable, v0, n8n, Udemy, and more. Search by name and sort A–Z.
Most builders pair an AI IDE like Cursor with a frontier model (Claude, GPT, or Grok), plus hosting on Vercel and a database like Neon. Our tools directory lists what we actually use and recommend.
Start with a clear outcome, pick one AI coding assistant, and iterate in plain language — fix one feature at a time. Read our migration and stack guides for real examples of shipping without writing every line by hand.
There is no single winner — it depends on your budget and workflow. Cursor is the most popular IDE for vibe coding; Claude and GPT excel at reasoning. Compare options in our tools page and follow AI news posts when models update.
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