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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.
How to see traffic and errors on a vibe-coded project — Google Search Console and GA4 as the start-here, then PostHog, Sentry, Better Stack, Axiom, Plausible/Umami, and UptimeRobot.
We teased Origin in the free-hosting newsletter. Here’s the junior-friendly setup: claim a codebase, install the CLI, sync from GitHub, keep GitHub as source of truth — Origin as backup while the beta evolves.
How to send transactional mail and OTP texts from a vibe-coded project — Resend as the start-here, then Brevo, SES, Loops, Mailtrap, and Twilio for SMS.
Speak once, get a Markdown prompt any agent can @. Free MIT CLI — now live in the ChatGPT / Codex Plugins directory.
OpenAI put a free month of Plus on my account. I used it for real Codex work — and shipped two tools for ChatGPT Ads while ads rolled into my region.
How to add free user login to a vibe-coded project — Clerk as the start-here, then WorkOS, Supabase Auth, Kinde, and OSS (Better Auth / Auth.js).
A strong September model week — then half your stack 500’d. FOMO, token anxiety, and a spare-tire plan for vibe coders.
Slash tokens like /xray and /blueprint are shorthand, not official APIs. Same copy-paste recipes for ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Microsoft AI (MAI Playground) chats — plus a 100+ catalog on GitHub.
First Store submit, eight live Actors, the Graveyard, and the Playbook that grew out of the packaging scars.
How to add free Postgres, Redis, and file storage to a vibe-coded project — Neon as the start-here, then Supabase, Turso, D1, R2, and when the free tier ends.
Ox Alpha arrived on OpenRouter as a free stealth model for coding and long agent loops. Here’s what OpenRouter officially says, why Z.ai / GLM-5.3 is the strongest public guess, and how to test it in chat or VS Code + Cline.
How to host your vibe-coded project for free — Cloudflare Pages, Vercel Hobby, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and Render, plus when Hobby is not enough (Stripe / commercial).
Clone the open suite, paste Fun prompts in any chat, then run Dev and Score with your own OpenRouter key — including how to read a 9/12 Score log.
A practical map of free and low-cost AI coding training — Codecademy, Udemy picks, Anthropic Skilljar, OpenAI Academy, Cursor Workshops, Grow with Google, plus a clear start-here path.
Google’s coding and agents workhorse jumps again: stronger SWE / web / document benches vs 3.6 Flash, Spark switches over, and intro API pricing at $0.75 / $3.75 through year-end.
Setup, slash commands, Muse Spark 1.2 token costs, and an honest mid-range price check against GPT-5.6 Luna, Grok 4.5, Gemini Flash, Composer, and Claude — plus why vibe coders should stay put.
Antigravity, Stitch, Pomelli, Flow & Flow Music — setup guides, export paths, and viral copy-paste prompts with a free Google account.
Google AI Studio, Groq, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, Cerebras, GitHub Models, OpenRouter & more — create keys step by step and plug them into Cursor or VS Code Cline.
Luna −80%, Terra −20%, Revolut Standard bundles ChatGPT Go for 3 months, and you can plan a Bolt ride inside ChatGPT.
VCL VibeBench 1.0 — open Fun + Dev suites, BYOK on OpenRouter, and honest scored results when Moonshot dropped Kimi K3 weights.
Open-source, local-first, agent-native design. I wired it into Cursor, pointed it at Color Books AI with intentionally short prompts, and the mockups came back better than they had any right to.
Google shipped a sharper Flash workhorse, a faster Lite tier, and 3.5 Flash Cyber inside CodeMender. Refresh Gemini web today; update the mobile apps if the new models are missing — and stop holding your breath for 3.5 Pro just yet.
Three months of premium AWS Skill Builder AI courses across Central and Eastern Europe, 50% off the cert exam if you finish — and a Codecademy backup if you miss the cut.
Meta's agentic coding model undercuts Opus and GPT on price — and your public Instagram photos may still feed Meta AI unless you opt out. Two-minute privacy steps inside.
SpaceXAI's $60B Cursor deal just produced a co-trained frontier model. Grok 4.5 is fast, cheap, and live in Cursor — but you don't have to use Grok to benefit.
Sol, Terra, and Luna bring Mythos-class agentic coding — but a US-government partner list means most vibe coders are still on the sidelines.
Neon, Vercel, Clerk, and Cursor replaced Replit DB, hosting, and auth — without losing Stripe or Apify.
Anthropic's benchmark gains, Composer 2.5, Google Flash models, and our first AI news post for vibe coders.