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🚀 New to vibe coding | Building real stuff from scratch ideas | Learning AI daily & hoping not to break the internet (yet) 😅

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

JustCookIt — end of August 🍳

✅ Restarted after 2.5 month gap
✅ Bugs fixed
✅ App Store prep started
👀 Next app idea forming

Still left:
🔧 Final submission prep

September goal: App Store. 🍎

No hype. Just work. 💪

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

The real accountability in building in public?

It's not your audience.
It's your own timeline staring back at you.

Every tweet I wrote before the gap:
"Still building." "Updates soon." "Almost there."

You can go quiet to your audience.
You can't unsay your own posts.
#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Thinking about what comes after JustCookIt. 💡

Not abandoning it — finishing first. Non-negotiable.

But the next idea is already forming. 👀

All I'll say:
→ AI-powered 🤖
→ Solves a problem I hit personally
→ Indian market first 🇮🇳

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

The last 10% of building = 90% of the work. 😅

Nobody talks about:
→ App Store screenshots for 6 device sizes
→ Metadata writing at midnight
→ That bug appearing only during review

I'm in that last 10% with JustCookIt right now.

Slow. Messy. Necessary. 💪

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

My vibe coding tool journey 👇

Replit → Lovable → Cursor → Rork → Claude Code

Market's flooded with new tools now.
All promising to be the last one you'll need. 🙄

My honest take after 16 yrs:

Best tool = the one that ships. 🚢

What are you building with? 👇

#VibeCoding

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

App Store checklist 🍎

✅ Core features done
✅ Kids Mode 👧
✅ TestFlight complete
🔧 UI polish ongoing
⬜ Screenshots
⬜ Metadata
⬜ Final bug sweep
⬜ Submit

Every checkbox = Plan B getting closer to Plan A. 💪

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Do you review AI-generated code before shipping? 👇

Be honest. No judgment.

92% use AI tools daily.
Only 29% trust the output.
Yet we ship anyway. 😅

After 16 yrs in engineering — I still catch myself saying "looks fine, ship it."

What's your review process? 🔍

#VibeCoding

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

My real build session 👇

6am ☕ Wake up
6:15 Open Claude Code
6:16 Stare at old code 😐
6:30 Finally remember what I was doing
7:00 One thing shipped ✅
7:15 Job calls. Done.

45 mins of honest building before the world wakes up. 🌅

Not glamorous. But real.

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Vibe coding went mainstream. That's the problem. 🧵

Everyone's shipping now.
Most will fail — not because of bad AI.
Because of bad judgment.

Knowing WHAT to build + WHO for + WHY they'll pay —
that's the real moat. 🏰

Think before you prompt. 🤔

#VibeCoding

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

JustCookIt slowly coming back to life. 🍳

Fixed one thing today. Took longer than expected — always does. 😅

Also started thinking about what comes AFTER this app. 👀

But first — I finish what I started.
One thing at a time. 🎯

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

What 2.5 months away actually cost me

- Momentum 🏃 starting again = lifting a car
- Context 🧠 my own code felt foreign
- Mental space 😶 unfinished work charges interest daily

Pausing isn't free.
Don't learn this the hard way.

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Biggest vibe coding mistake:

Shipping AI output without knowing it.

I've done it. Broke in prod in 10 mins.😅

16 yrs of engineering taught me:
good code isn't about who wrote it,
it's about whether YOU understood it first. 🧠

Vibe code. But review it. Always.
#VibeCoding

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Back in the code after 2.5 months. 💻

Felt like returning to a messy desk —
everything where I left it, nothing making sense. 😅

Rule 1: Fix what's broken before adding anything new.

Old me: jump to new features.
New me: finish what he started. 🎯

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

How do you protect your side project time when your job keeps eating it? 😤

I failed badly. JustCookIt paid the price.

My new rule: 1 hour before work. Non-negotiable. ⏰

What's YOUR system? 👇

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

92% of devs use AI tools daily.
Only 29% trust the code it produces.😬

I live in that gap every day.

My take after 16 yrs of engineering:
→ AI gives you speed ⚡
→ Your brain still catches what's wrong 🧠
→ Both are non-negotiable

Do you trust AI-generated code?

#VibeCoding

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

Independence Day feels different when you're building something of your own. 🇮🇳

A job pays the bills.
It doesn't give you freedom.

Real independence = something YOU built.
Something no salary can be taken away from.

Still on that journey. 🔧

#IndieHacker

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

JustCookIt — honest status 🍳

✅ AI ingredient scan
✅ Kids Mode 👧
✅ Favourites + Auth
✅ TestFlight done

🔧 Still left:
→ App Store assets
→ UI polish
→ Old bugs 😅

Not where I want. But not zero.
Restarting today. 💪

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

2.5 months. Zero posts. 😶

My job took over. JustCookIt sat unfinished.
That guilt hit me every single day.

I'm back. No fake promises. No "twice a day" claims.

Just honest building from here. 🔧

Still here. Still building. 🍳

#BuildInPublic

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

@rxhit05 SaaS

[XLume @XLumeOfficial]

@stijnnoorman Improve the product, improve the offer, make more sales — that chain is simple enough to dismiss and true enough to build a business around.