Launched July 30, 2026
The changelog
What shipped and when. This site preaches building small focused software in public — the least we can do is keep a public record of our own.
- Seventh guide: How to build a Trello alternative. Lists, cards you drag between columns, and a membership check, with prompts that keep the agent off live sync.
- Eighth guide: How to build a Canny alternative. Search, one vote per person, and a public status, with prompts that keep the agent off AI and CRM.
- Ninth guide: How to build a QR code generator. Styled squares, an editable short URL, and daily scan counts, with prompts that keep the agent off landing pages.
- Build prompts now ship in two flavors: Node.js plus Astro, and TanStack Start. The journeys stay the same. Only the adapters change.
- Fourth guide: How to build a Typeform alternative. One question at a time, a response table, and a formula-safe CSV, with prompts that keep the agent off the visual builder.
- Fifth guide: How to build a status page. Named components, a public board, and incidents you post by hand, with prompts that keep the agent off SMS.
- Sixth guide: How to build a TinyPNG alternative. A drop zone, local compression, and a bytes-saved number, with prompts that keep the agent off the CDN.
- A guides section: step-by-step tutorials that walk one catalog app from stack and data model through prompts, checks, failures, and deploy. Index at /guides/, RSS, sitemap, and Open Graph cards next to the blog.
- First guide: Vibe code a Calendly clone. Weekly hours, a booking page, and a lock so two guests cannot take the same slot.
- Second guide: Build your own link shortener step by step. Slugs, redirects, and a click count, with prompts that keep the agent off Bitly's week-long row.
- Third guide: How to build a Linktree alternative. A profile, five links, one theme, and a publish snapshot, with prompts that keep the agent off the theme marketplace.
- Rewrote all 109 build-guide titles around searches like "how to vibe code your own Slack alternative," with matching headings, social titles, and article metadata.
- Added 30 apps and services, bringing the catalog from 79 to 109. New builds cover inventory, client onboarding, API docs, hiring, class bookings, maintenance, daily planning, journaling, and habits.
- Every addition has three scope estimates, complete build prompts in four frameworks, and four smaller feature prompts. That adds 120 mini-prompts, bringing the total to 436.
- New guides link to official pricing pages and explain billing periods, seat costs, and excluded extras. Prices were checked on October 19, 2026.
- A blog: one article a day about which subscriptions are worth replacing, starting with why you should not rebuild Notion first. RSS, a sitemap, product cross-links, the usual SEO.
- Build just one piece: every product page now has standalone mini-prompts for the peculiar sub-problems hiding inside each product — 316 of them, four per product. The debt simplifier inside Splitwise, the DST-safe slot math inside Calendly, the backlink index inside Notion.
- Same build, different logo: 68 products now list the competitors the same v1 replaces — build the Calendly replacement, cancel SavvyCal and Cal.com too.
- Every product got its own page: 79 full build guides with the complete prompt, honest scope, FAQs, structured data, a sitemap, and proper canonicals. Search "how to build your own X" and hopefully find us.
- Honest three-tier estimates on every card, because "Notion in 10 hours" was a lie. Now each product shows what a basic version, a solid v1, and the full honest rebuild actually take.
- The catalog more than doubled in one day: 44 new products (35 → 79), including Figma, Photoshop, Grammarly, Shopify, IFTTT, Splitwise, Gumroad, Roam Research, Sentry, and Ghost.
- Framework tabs: every build prompt now ships in more than one flavor. Pick the one you already know.
- Added YNAB and Toggl Track to the catalog (33 → 35).
- vibecode it yourself goes live with 33 subscriptions, each with real pricing, a build-it-yourself verdict, and a complete scoped v1 prompt to hand your coding agent.
- Team-aware pricing from day one, because "per person per month" is how they get you.
- A suggestion form, a custom favicon, and a social card. The essentials.