You describe what you want in plain English. The AI writes the code. You ship by Sunday.
That is the pitch behind vibe coding, and after shipping a growing portfolio of products this way at Inithouse, a studio running parallel product experiments, we can confirm: it actually works. Not perfectly, not for everything, but well enough to get a real app in front of real users before Monday.
Here is how to do it yourself, step by step.
Pick a small, concrete project
The biggest mistake we see is ambition. Your first vibe-coded app should be something you can describe in two sentences. A quiz. A landing page with a contact form. A simple card game.
Bad scope: "a marketplace with payments, user profiles, and admin dashboard."
Good scope: "a page where visitors answer 5 questions and get a score."
You can always add features later. The goal for this weekend is: deployed, live, shareable.
Choose your tool
Three tools dominate vibe coding right now, each with a different workflow:
Lovable works entirely in the browser. You describe your app, it generates the full codebase, and you can publish with one click. We use Lovable for most of our products at vibecoderi.cz and across the Inithouse portfolio. Best for: non-technical founders, fast iteration, visual apps.
Cursor is a VS Code fork with AI built in. You write prompts inside your editor and the AI modifies files directly. Best for: developers who want control over the codebase and prefer a local dev environment.
Bolt sits between the two. Browser-based like Lovable, but gives you more access to the underlying code. Best for: developers who want speed without full local setup.
Pick one and stick with it for the weekend. Switching tools mid-project burns hours.
Write your first prompt (be specific)
Vague prompts produce vague results. Compare:
Weak: "Make me a quiz app."
Strong: "Create a React quiz app with 5 multiple-choice questions about European capitals. Show one question at a time, track the score, and display results at the end with a share button."
The more specific you are about layout, behavior, and edge cases, the closer the first output gets to what you actually want. Think of it as writing a brief for a junior developer who is fast but literal.
Iterate: test, feedback, repeat
The AI will get you 70-80% of the way on the first try. The remaining 20% is where your judgment matters.
After each generation:
- Open the preview and click through every screen
- Try to break it (empty inputs, back button, refresh mid-flow)
- Write your next prompt based on what you found
A typical session looks like 8-15 iterations. Each one takes 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Do not rewrite from scratch; build on what the AI gave you.
One thing we learned the hard way: save working versions before big changes. AI tools sometimes overwrite functioning code when you ask for a new feature. In Lovable, use the version history. In Cursor, commit to git after each working state.
Run a quick audit before you ship
Vibe-coded apps share common weak spots: missing meta tags, no error handling on API calls, hardcoded secrets in the frontend, accessibility gaps. Before you deploy, spend 30 minutes checking the basics.
If you want to be thorough, tools like Audit Vibe Coding can scan your project for security, performance, and SEO issues automatically. We built it specifically because we kept finding the same problems across our own vibe-coded projects.
Deploy and share
Deployment depends on your tool:
Lovable: Click "Publish" in the top right. Your app gets a .lovable.app subdomain instantly. Connect a custom domain later if you want.
Cursor / Bolt: Push to GitHub, connect to Vercel or Netlify. Both have free tiers, and deploy takes under 5 minutes with zero configuration for most React/Next.js apps.
Once it is live, share it. Post on X, Reddit, or relevant communities. Ask 3 friends to try it on their phones. Watch for confusion points. The feedback from 10 real users teaches you more than 10 more hours of prompting.
What to expect (and what not to)
A weekend of vibe coding will get you a functional, deployed app. It will not get you production-grade software. The code will have rough edges. The architecture will not scale to millions of users.
That is fine. The point is to test whether anyone cares about your idea before you invest weeks or months. If people use it and come back, you can refactor. If nobody cares, you saved yourself a massive engineering effort.
We have shipped products this way that now serve hundreds of users daily. We have also shipped products that got zero traction and taught us what not to build next. Both outcomes are wins when the cost is a single weekend.
Resources
If you want to go deeper into vibe coding workflows, tools, and community:
- Vibe Coderi covers tooling comparisons, tutorials, and a Czech-language course for getting started
- Audit Vibe Coding catches the security and performance issues that AI-generated code tends to miss
Inithouse is a studio shipping a growing portfolio of products built almost entirely through vibe coding. If you try the weekend challenge, we would like to hear how it went.
