The Vibe Coding Playbook : Building Your Tech Business with AI.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raval, Siraj.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

A detailed and up-to-date walkthrough for entrepreneurs with limited (or non-existent) coding skills who want to build profitable software companies using new gen-AI tools In The Vibe Coding Playbook: Building Your Tech Business With AI , renowned AI and data science educator Siraj Raval walks you through exactly what you need to do to build a.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Contents at a Glance

Contents

Introduction

Part I Foundations

Chapter 1 AI Gold-Rush Economics-Why Now Beats Better

The 10-Trillion Time Window (Revisited)

The Cost‐Collapse Flywheel (De‐risked Math)

Timing &gt

Talent-Autopsies and Anti‐Examples

The Founder's Asymmetric Edge (Deep Dive)

Framework: TIMING = (T + I + M + E) - D (v2.0)

Red‐Team Your Timing (Mini‐workshop)

Timing Sniper Use Cases (2025-2026 Pipeline)

Case Study Deep-Dive: Feynman, the AI Physics TA

Negative Timing: How to Spot It Early

Founder Field Exercises (Do These Tonight)

Recap

Chapter 2 Founder OS-Speed, Scope Cut, and the Distribution‐First Mindset

Speed: Commit, Ship, Delete

The 48‐Hour Commitment Loop

Mini‐Case: CalendarHero.ai

Time‐Blocking vs. Task Lists

Pro Tip: Audio Logs

The Cold‐Start Stopwatch

Scope Cut: The 80/4 Rule

The One‐Sentence Spec

The "Delete‐Until‐Scary" Test

Case: Midjourney vs. DALL·E 2

Three More Micro‐Case Studies

Distribution‐First: Own the Eyeballs Before the Code

Audience as Alpha

Zero‐to‐One Growth Hack: Reverse Demo Days

The Hook → Promise → Proof Framework

Checklist for Effective Communication

Integration Piggybacking

API Rate‐Limit Arbitrage

Mental Models Cheat Sheet

Founder OS Installation Steps

Chapter 3 Find a Burning Problem-Painkillers &gt

Vitamins and the B2B/B2C Split

Why "Interesting" "Inevitable"-Anatomy of the Desert of Death

The Diagnosis Sprint: Making Pain Tangible

The Painkiller Framework (Deep Dive and Scoring Rubric)

Five Field Tactics to Unearth Gold‐Grade Pain

B2B vs. B2C: Pick a Battlefield, Win the War

B2B Painkillers: High‐ACV, Politics‐Heavy, Integration‐Critical.

B2C Painkillers: High‐Volume, Dopamine‐Fueled, Community‐Driven

The Decisive Matrix: Choosing Your Path

Extended Case Studies: Anatomy of Real Pain‐to‐Profit Jumps

From Weekend Add‐On to Sticky Revenue Engine

ToonMe: Vitamin Resurrected as a Creator Steroid

Ghostwriter‐AI: Legal Brief Drafting on Steroids

The 5‐Call Validation Sprint (Templated and Time‐Boxed)

Quantify or Kill: Pain Math You Can Run on a Napkin

Action Checklist (Pin to Your Monitor)

Interlude Recap

Why Most Founders Chase Vitamins (and How to Stop)

Antipatterns That Signal You're in a Vitamin Trap

Founders Who Found Real, Unsexy Pain

The Brutal Truth: If You Can't Find Pain, You Don't Deserve a Product

Bonus: The Inverted Pain Funnel

Painkiller Signals That Hide in Plain Sight

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Actually Build a Business

The Week That Separates Wannabes from Founders

Closing Shot: The Power of Pain

Part II Building Your Product

Chapter 4 AI‐Powered Market Intel-Scrapers, GPT Surveys, and Persona Cloning

The 24‐Hour Data Moat

The Three‐Layer Intelligence Stack

Layer 1: Rapid Scraping Playbook

Identify Rich Surfaces

Build the 30‐Line Scraper (No Selenium Hell)

Signal‐to‐Noise Filters

Layer 2: GPT Survey and Instant Clustering

Craft the One‐Scroll Survey

Automate the Outreach

Map the Chaos with GPT Function Calls

Layer 3: Persona Cloning (Rapid RAG Loop)

Harvest a Conversational Corpus

Build the Retrieval‐Augmented Brain in 20 Minutes

Live‐Ammo Case Study: FreightOps AI (0 17,000 MRR)

Compliance and Ethics Guardrails

Seven‐Day Intel‐to‐Pilot Sprint (Calendar View)

Part 1 Takeaways

Auto‐Benchmark Dashboards from Aggregated Pain

Multi‐persona Debate Simulator

Pre‐Pitch Doc Generator (Build Once, Use 50 Times)

The Niche Channel Playbook.

Bonus: The Ethical GPT‐Aided Email Sniper

The Data Moat Is the Real Moat

Final Action Checklist

Chapter 5 Tiny MVP in 24 Hours: Prompt + Spreadsheet Demo

Why the "Tiny MVP" Beats the "Lean MVP"

The 24‐Hour Countdown

Prompt Engineering in a Sheet Cell

The Sacred Sheet Layout

Plugin Options to Power Your Sheet

Glue Code in Under 30 Lines

Pipedream or Make.com Webhook

Fake an API with a Simple Flask Endpoint

When the UI Needs Lipstick

Collect Payments in &lt

30 Minutes

How to Use It

Case Study: AI Freight Classifier

Phase 1: Validation (First 10 Hours)

Phase 2: Iteration (Next 14 Hours)

Handling Edge Cases Without Code

The Tiny MVP Quality Assurance (QA) Checklist

The 24‐Hour Action Plan: A Tactical Roadmap

Public Launch = Free Growth Engine

Optional Add‐Ons to Make the Post Irresistible

De‐risking Before the First Line of Code

Examples of Tiny MVPs That Made Real Money

Common Excuses (And Why They're Lies)

Real‐World Tactics to Get Your First Demos

From Tiny to True MVP: When to Upgrade

Closing Mindset: Prototype Like a Hacker, Charge Like a CEO

Chapter 6 Validation Loops-Waitlists, Preorders, and Paid Pilots

Why Static Validation Dies Fast

The Waitlist Flywheel

Set the Flywheel in Motion

Best Tools (No Code)

Metrics That Matter

Preorders: The Cleanest Signal

Set the Offer

Scarcity That Sells

Paid Pilots: Get Money, Get Truth

Pilot Email Template

Common Pushback: "Can We Do Free First?"

Your Loop Dashboard

Automate Everything You Can

Real‐World Case Studies

Fixing Churn Before It Starts

Build in Public = Feedback on Autopilot

The 30‐Day Validation Loop Playbook

The "Dollar or Data" Rule

When the Loop Becomes Product

Recap.

Chapter 7 Pick Your Stack-Hosted, Open Source, or Hybrid (and When to Switch)

Stack Strategy &gt

Model Quality

The Three Stack Archetypes

Hosted Stack: API Until It Hurts

When Hosted Wins

Hidden Costs and How to Fix Them

Open Source Stack: Own the Model, Keep the Margin

The Break‐Even Math

Common Pitfalls

Hybrid: The 80/20 Stack for Most Startups

Stack‐Switching Playbook

Case Studies

Compliance, IP, and Licensing Quick‐Check

Action Checklist: Make the Stack Work for You

Part III Launching and Scaling

Chapter 8 Rapid Prototyping with Gen AI-Code Agents and UI Scaffolds

Why You Need an AI‐First Build Loop

Code‐Agent Landscape in One Table

The 6‐Hour Agent Pipeline

Prompt Patterns That Actually Work

The Physics of a Good Prompt

UI Scaffolds in Minutes

Common Traps and Guardrails

ROI Benchmarks

Chapter 9 Data and MLOps for Noncoders-Pipelines, Eval Harnesses, and Fine‐Tunes

Why Founders Must Own the Data Loop

The Four‐Stage Minimal Pipeline

The First Data Schema That Matters

Ingestion Blueprint (Real Code)

Continuous Evaluation Harness

Forty‐Line Python Eval Script

Fine‐Tuning Workflow Cheat Sheet

The Driver, Not Mechanic Mindset

RAG Lite: Add Real Data Before You Retrain

CI/CD for Models-Think Like DevOps, Ship Like a Founder

Case Study: DocuRisk AI Goes from 80% to 96% Accuracy in 6 Weeks

Action Checklist for Solo or Small Teams

Recap: The AI Founder's Data Loop

Chapter 10 Ship Weekly-CI/CD, Feature Flags, and Telemetry That Matters

The Cadence Commandment: Your New Religion

The 15‐Minute CI/CD Pipeline (for the Rest of Us)

Feature Flags: Ship Without Fear

Telemetry That Matters (and What to Ignore)

The Weekly Shipping Ritual: A Playbook for Your Team.

Rollbacks: Your Get‐Out‐of‐Jail‐Free Card

Recap: Your Shipping Machine

Chapter 11 Narrative Positioning and Value‐Based Pricing

Your Story Is Your Strategy

The 3‐Act Narrative Arc for Your Landing Page

Value‐Based Pricing: The Only Model That Matters

The 10x Value Rule

The Three‐Tier Pricing Matrix

The Feature‐Value Axis

The "AI Tax": Handling Token Costs

Grandfathering: The Art of the Price Hike

The Golden Rule: Reward the Believers

The Execution Playbook: The 14‐Day Campaign

The Hidden Danger: Technical Debt

Psychological Pricing Tactics

The "Kill Switch": When to Fire Your Customers

Grandfathering and Raising Prices with Grace

Recap: Price the Transformation

Part IV Case Studies and Templates

Chapter 12 Build‐in‐Public Flywheel-Community, Content, and Credibility

Why Building in Public is a Nonnegotiable Edge

The "Learn, Build, Share" Loop: The Engine of Your Flywheel

Choosing Your Stage: Where to Build in Public

The Content Matrix: Five Artifacts to Ship Every Week

From Audience to Community: The Discord/Slack Playbook

The Dark Side of Building in Public (and How to Navigate It)

Recap: Your Audience Is Your Fortress

Chapter 13 Paid Acquisition That Prints Cash-UGC Ads and Influencer Allowlisting

When to Flip the Paid Acquisition Switch

The "100 Organic Customers" Rule

Why Traditional Ads Fail for AI Products

The UGC Ad Engine: Your Customers Are Your Best Marketers

Influencer Allowlisting: "Borrowing" Trust at Scale

Your First Ad Campaign (The Three‐Day Sprint)

Metrics That Matter: Are You Printing or Burning?

Recap: Build Your Growth Machine

Part V Scaling and Moats

Chapter 14 Automation and Delegation-SOPs, Agents, and Contractors

The Founder's Trap: The Myth of "It's Faster If I Do It Myself".

The Automation Mindset: Process, Program, or Person?.

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ISBN:

1-394-37683-9

1-394-37686-3

1-394-37685-5

9781394376834

OCLC:

1579225284