Andrew Dyuzhov
Andrew Dyuzhov is the founder of Vibedonalds. He writes the guides here — practical playbooks for shipping and growing AI-built products, drawn from real entries in the directory.
20 guides
Attention Is the New Oil: Why You Can't Ship an App and Skip Social Media (2026)
If you built something with AI, posting is getting hard to ignore. GaryVee's 'interest media' shift is real — more feeds now recommend content by interest, not only by who follows you — so a maker with zero followers can sometimes out-reach an established brand. That's the unlock and the mandate: building got faster, getting seen is the job, and many products struggle to grow without it. Here's the honest first move, written for a builder who would rather ship a feature than post.
How to Do Your Own SEO with Claude Code (When Your Site Is Brand New)
Claude Code can do most of your SEO — build a crawlable static site, write and optimize pages, fix the technical layer, even bottle the whole workflow into a reusable skill. What it can't do is invent authority or pick keywords, and if you let it generate 10,000 pages you'll get de-indexed, not ranked. Here's the honest, hands-on version for a maker whose site shipped last week.
The Future of Marketing for People Who Build with AI (Do This Before 2027)
When AI makes building a product trivial and floods the web with generic content, marketing inverts: distribution becomes the moat, and distribution increasingly means being the source AI answer engines and buying agents cite and recommend. The durable move before 2027 is to engineer your product to be machine-discoverable and corroborated from day one — even at zero domain authority. Strong in the future means cited, not ranked.
How to Build an MVP with AI: From Idea to Deployed in One Sitting (2026)
You don't start by building. You start by finding the one assumption that would kill the idea, then build the smallest thing that tests it. Here's the full idea-to-deployed workflow from a live AI build session: research the market with ChatGPT, pick a segment on unit economics, have AI write the PRD, then vibe-code and ship with Claude Code — in a couple of hours, not a quarter.
What Is an AI Agent Harness? The Runtime That Turns an LLM Into an Agent (2026)
A harness is the runtime wrapper that turns a bare language model into an agent — the layer that runs tools, holds memory, assembles context, and enforces limits. The model does the reasoning; the harness does everything the model can't do on its own. It's the part that decides whether you shipped a chatbot or a real agent — and it's why the same model feels brilliant in one tool and useless in another.
Future-Proof Skills for the AI Era: 6 That Get More Valuable as AI Improves (2026)
'Learn AI' is generic advice. The skills that actually compound as AI improves aren't prompts — they're six capabilities you can start this weekend: running agents, building distribution, building hardware, curating with a real point of view, shipping-and-selling as one person, and pulling people into real rooms. Pick one and get dangerous; pick three and you're the person every team wants.
How to Build an AI Sales Agent From Your Own Chats (with Claude Code)
Don't buy a bot that 'closes the whole sale' — it won't, and people hate talking to one. What works: export your own sales chats, strip the personal data, and run them through a Claude Code agent that audits how you actually sell and writes the follow-ups your team forgot to send. Then put an agent only on the hours you're offline.
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026: 8 Claude Code Repos Worth Installing
The best vibe-coding tools aren't another AI model — they're the open-source Claude Code repos you stack on top of it. The right ones turn the agent from a fancy autocomplete into a disciplined senior engineer: it plans before it codes, designs properly, maps your codebase, and gets scanned for security. Here are eight worth installing.
How to Validate Your AI App Idea Before You Build It: 8 Interviews, Not 1,000 (2026)
The expensive mistake in the vibe-coding era isn't building the app — it's building the wrong one. You validate an AI app idea by talking to about eight people in your target market before you build, and listening for the single capability they all wish existed. That's your wedge. Higgsfield's founder did exactly that on the way to a ~$200M run-rate.
How to Make Your App Go Viral with UGC: Why Views Alone Get You Nothing (2026)
Going viral isn't luck — it's a format that earns watch time, run at volume. The founder of nomadtable grew it past a million downloads, solo, by ignoring view counts and chasing one number: how many people keep watching past the first three seconds. Here's that UGC playbook, with his real figures attributed throughout.
How to Get Your First Users for a Vibe-Coded App: From Zero to Your First 5,000 Downloads (2026)
The cheapest way to get your first users for a vibe-coded app is organic short-video: post native-looking TikToks and Reels from accounts that read like your target user, and convert people in the comments — no ads, no influencers. It's slow at first and most clips flop, but it's how indie consumer apps go from zero to their first thousands of downloads.
Claude Code Memory: How to Give Your AI Agent a Second Brain (2026)
Claude Code has built-in memory — a CLAUDE.md file it reads each session — but it only holds short, hand-written notes. To make it understand a large codebase or docs set, you add a second brain: turn the repo into a knowledge graph, fold that into an Obsidian vault, and let the agent query the map instead of re-reading every file.
How to Get Your AI App Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity (2026)
To get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity, be the clearest answer in several places at once. Publish answer-first pages with extractable facts, get listed on directories and review sites the engines crawl, and build consistent mentions across Reddit, YouTube, and your own site. Perplexity tends to favour recent content; ChatGPT appears to weight agreement across sources.
How to Launch Your AI App on Product Hunt (2026)
Launch on Product Hunt by preparing for a few weeks: build genuine account activity, line up your assets and a supporter list, and ship at 12:01 AM Pacific (the daily reset) on a weekday. Reply to every comment all day, never ask for upvotes (say 'check it out'), and keep working the week after — that's where most of the lasting value is.
How to Launch on Reddit and Hacker News Without Getting Banned (2026)
Reddit and Hacker News send the most engaged users, but both punish self-promotion. Post where your specific user already is, lead with the problem and a real story, make your product trivially easy to try, and never ask for upvotes or have friends pile in. On Hacker News, use a plain 'Show HN' title with no hype.
Where to List Your Vibe-Coded App to Get Your First Users (2026)
List your AI app where people already search for AI tools. Start with a niche AI directory (There's An AI For That, Futurepedia, and Vibedonalds for vibe-coded products), one launch platform (Product Hunt or a smaller one like Uneed), and one community post (a relevant subreddit or Show HN). Spread more directory submissions over the following weeks.
7 Best v0 Alternatives in 2026
The closest v0 alternative is Bolt.new — it generates and runs a full app in your browser on any framework, not just v0's Next.js + shadcn/ui. Lovable is the React + Supabase pick, Replit Agent builds and hosts in one workspace, and a0.dev targets native mobile. Every option here has a free tier.
6 Best GitHub Copilot Alternatives in 2026
The strongest GitHub Copilot alternative for agentic work is Cursor — an AI-native editor whose multi-file agent goes further than Copilot's. Windsurf is the other agent-first editor. For free unlimited completion, use Codeium; for open-source, bring-your-own-key control, try Cline, Aider, or Continue. Every option here has a free tier.
7 Best Cursor Alternatives in 2026
The closest Cursor alternative is Windsurf — the other AI-native editor, with a multi-step Cascade agent and a more generous free tier. To leave the IDE for a terminal agent, use Claude Code or Aider. For free, open-source, bring-your-own-key tools, try Cline or Continue. Every option here has a free tier.
7 Best Lovable Alternatives in 2026
The closest Lovable alternative is Bolt.new — it runs the same chat-to-app workflow on any framework instead of Lovable's fixed React + Supabase stack. v0 suits teams already on Next.js and Vercel, and Replit Agent builds from a phone. Every option here has a free tier.