The VibeBoost blog
Building a SaaS and growing on X, in public.
27 principles for building a micro-SaaS as a non-technical founder
27 hard-won principles for building and shipping a real SaaS with no coding background, from a non-dev who built VibeBoost with Lovable in two hours a day.
How I cut my X API bill by ~80% (the exact playbook)
A spoon-fed, step-by-step account of how X API pay-per-use billing actually works in 2026, the mistakes that inflated my bill, and the exact fixes that cut it roughly 80%. With real numbers.
The reply-first system: your first 1,000 followers on X from zero, step by step
The exact 20-minutes-a-day reply-first system to get your first 1,000 X followers from zero: how to build the watchlist, pick posts, write replies that land, and the honest timeline.
How I built VibeBoost with Lovable, screen by screen (a non-dev teardown)
A screen-by-screen teardown of building a real SaaS with Lovable as a non-developer: the exact prompting method, when to hand it code vs descriptions, and the gotchas nobody warns you about.
Reply-first vs post-first: what actually grows a small X account (with the real numbers)
An honest, data-backed comparison of replying vs posting to grow on X, including real, Stripe-verified founder revenue numbers and the uncomfortable truth that a big follower count and a good business are two different things.
I looked at what X growth tools actually earn. Here's what the numbers say
A candid, numbers-first breakdown of the X growth tool market using public, Stripe-verified revenue and paying-customer counts: why customer count is not revenue, why a tool with fewer customers can out-earn one with more, and what actually separates the winners.