☀️ The Summer of Vibe Coding

A Hot New Vibe Coding Platform Has Entered the Villa! Meet *Anything*, Which Added 30,000 Users in Just 72 Hours Following a Viral Launch

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Katie Perry
August 14, 2025

Welcome to Tuesday Thursday Saturday! Here, I share a snapshot of trending stories across business, tech, and culture three times a week, plus some updates from the daily financial news show I host. - KP

The Big Story: Why Vibe Coding is the Next Frontier of Digital Expression

I vividly remember being a teenager and signing up for my first Geocities account. It felt like I was making magic. My first website was a Syracuse basketball fan page. In hindsight, it was heinous-looking, and it would probably make a graphic designer cry (not in a good way), but it was real, and I built it with nothing but an idea and some extremely basic HTML skills.

Most millennials can remember the first time they published something on the Internet, because it was such a cool feeling. This entire world existed apart from the physical world, and all of a sudden, regular people were able to create things and codify them permanently. Anyone with a dial-up connection could make their mark on this exciting new universe that was expanding exponentially by the day.

Simpler times.

Realistically, I was intermediate on the software development adoption curve back then. Geocities required some basic programming skills, but nothing crazy. I had friends way smarter than me taking C++ and Java classes in high school. And then there were people who centered on MySpace and other websites that made it even easier to create. When MySpace popped off, all of a sudden, anyone could build and manage a personal website. The creative parameters were limited, but not so limiting that you couldn’t express yourself. Following MySpace, we saw lots of iterations of this model: LiveJournal (RIP!), Xanga, etc. And then much later came things like Squarespace, Substack, Beehiiv, and the like.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how digital expression has evolved through the years, beyond the Geocities and blogging era and into the social media and newsletter era. These days, digital expression feels more sporadic and fleeting. An Instagram story here, a 30-second TikTok there. X comments scattered about. Outside of people who monetize their personal brands or write newsletters, few of us create things online that feel permanent and substantial.

I think vibe coding might be changing that.

It really feels like this has been the summer of vibe coding. Here’s a list of things that have happened in the space in just the past few weeks: Swedish-based Lovable raised $200M and became the fastest company to achieve unicorn status ever. Anthropic expanded no-code functionalities within Claude. Microsoft-owned GitHub built out its own vibe coding product, called Spark. GPT-5 launched with new vibe-coding features. 

And – my personal favorite – earlier this week, the super talented team at Create launched Anything, a no-code app builder that has gone viral over the past couple of days. Their launch video got some 3.2 million views on X, which was more eyeballs than recent announcements from MUCH larger peers like Lovable and Bolt. 

Oh, and New Heights’ X on clip where Taylor Swift reveals her new album cover currently has 2.5M views. For comparison.

*Disclosure: I work with Anything as a fractional marketing resource.

Part of what’s fun about my job is that I get to work with very smart, talented people. But these guys are SMART. They have been building this thing for two years and arrived at a pretty damn good product that has gotten 100s of thousands of users globally. But a few months ago, the team had a breakthrough idea that would make the tool 100x better. Despite nothing being broken, they went back to the drawing board and rebuilt everything to create Anything.

The result is the new iteration of the product, which I invite you to check out at createanything.com. The website is also gorgeous, created in-house by Zaria, who seemingly has 26 jobs at the startup and is excellent at all of them.

CreateAnything.com

People are excited about this product for several reasons (listed below), but when I read through the conversations happening on X and Reddit, one theme emerges. Someone said it best, and I’ll paraphrase: Anything is not just a vibe-coding tool; it’s a vibe imagining tool in that it inspires the ideation that comes before the creation.

Of course, there’s a lot of other cool stuff, too:

  • Idea to App Store: Anything not only builds your app, but it can also launch it to the app stores. So what you have isn’t just a prototype mockup – it’s something that exists in the world that people can immediately engage with.

  • Integrations: Anything can plug into a ton of other platforms: Gmail, social platforms, and even Stripe. The Stripe integration is powerful: Imagine having an idea for an app and being able to launch and start monetizing instantly? Someone already did that in the first 24 hours since launch, by the way.

  • Human-inspired UX: A lot of no-code apps can build things functionally, but this team trained its models so that the visual outputs would be beautiful and feel human. You can see this come to life in some of the apps people have already built.

  • Built-in debugging: If you’ve used some of these tools before, you’ll know that they come with a good amount of trial and error. For someone like me, who is not an engineer, the process of generating bugs was both annoying and educational. I learned a lot about how devs build things simply by messing up. But after a while, that gets old. Anything debugs for you in real time.

  • Better backend: Finally, it’s not just about the aesthetics. Since launch, Anything has gotten immense praise from the engineering community – the toughest critics on these types of projects (and with good reason). As someone on X put it, you can tell Anything was dreamt up by engineers.

Here are just some of the things people have already built:

  • An entrepreneur built their entire analytics dashboard for their $150K ARR business in 1 hour. Cost if outsourced: $10K+. Cost with Anything: $19/month. 

  • A developer just recreated their three-month SaaS project in 2 hours. Not a prototype. The actual working product.

  • A parent built a custom baby monitor app in four prompts and already has paying customers. No code, no agency, just describing what they wanted.

Earlier this week, I tweeted out that I think Anything could do what Myspace did for my generation: Offer a tech solution that allows people to creatively express themselves, regardless of technical expertise. And vibe coding apps are special in that they provide a canvas for deeper self-expression than an Instagram Reel or a YouTube video. You’re not boxed into a format – you are inventing the format. That’s a special feeling that I am not sure younger generations of people who can’t code have truly felt before. And while Anything is for everyone (not just young people), I think apps like this could have a positive impact on people with the passion to embrace them.

Read more about Anything’s launch and $8.2M seed fundraise, led by Bessemer:

Be sure to give the hard-working team a follow on X and join the community there.

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Daily Rip Live Recap: I’m Taking a Few Days Off from the Show This Week

You’re never going to guess who stopped talking for once!

Every weekday, my co-host Shay Boloor and I cover the biggest market news and events LIVE on Stocktwits’ morning show, The Daily Rip Live.

I am taking a few days off from the show this week to rest my voice before next week, when I’ll get to do a few interviews from FinTech TV’s desk on the NYSE floor!

Now Here’s a Chart

I recently got a chance to visit the Bloomberg Tower in New York for the first time and got a tour and history lesson about its famed Bloomberg Terminal product. I was so fascinated by this that I am working on a dedicated newsletter specifically about Terminal, but for now, I am sharing a chart showing how much money the firm is banking from Terminal.

The chart below, via the Financial Times, is from a few years back, but shows how pervasive Terminal continues to be in financial services. They are one of the very few legacy techs that have withstood material disruption, despite many attempts along the way.

According to some estimates, Terminal subscriptions (which go for $28K/pop and up) comprise some 85% of Bloomberg LP’s total revenue, which is estimated to be around $15B annually.

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Tuesday Thursday Saturday is written by Katie Perry, owner of Ursa Major Media, which provides fractional marketing services and strategy in software, tech, consumer products, professional services, and other industries. She is also the co-host of Stocktwits’ Daily Rip Live show.

Disclaimer: The contents here reflect recaps and summaries of pre-reported or published data, news, and trends. I have cited sources and context for the information provided to the best of my ability. The purpose of the newsletter is to inform and educate on larger trends shaping business and culture — this is NOT investment advice. As an investor, you should always do your own research before making any decisions about your money or your portfolio.