When anyone starts trying to vibe code on a project for the first time, it's quite typical that after typing something like "build me a project management app with a nice dashboard and user authentication" they become amazed on how with just such a simple prompt they can see in front of their eyes a fully functional application assembling itself. And not only that, but also the app buttons work, the overall layout looks clean and they can actually click around in it quite properly. The whole thing took just a couple of minutes and without the need of writing a single line of code.
That feeling is now happening, it's real and the market has rewarded it if we just look at the numbers and realise that vibe coding tools have attracted over a billion USD in venture capital in 2025 alone. Lovable, a well known platform we've written about before and that was funded by a simple Nordic young guy, hit 200 million USD in annual recurring revenue. Cursor's parent company was valued at 9,2B USD, with Bolt hitting 2,1B. With this data at hand, we can clearly see that these are not just experimental tools with a handful of geeky users.
As we approach the end of May 26, in this exact moment approx 60% of vibe coding users are not developers. So yes, as mentioned in the title, almost anyone can build an app now, but the question that we hear less often is: What kind of app exactly? What happens at the parts the demos never show?
