Agencies are seeing a surge in clients wanting to automate workflows with AI tools like Manus, Claude Code, and Base44, but many lack clarity on requirements, leading to stalled builds and scope creep…
Pieter Levels' public ledger of roughly 113 projects, with about 9 marked a success, reveals that most of his vibe-coding ventures never earned money, contrasting with his fly.pieter.com AI flight gam…
Assembly, co-founded by CEO Marlon Misra and Neil Raina, launched Assembly Studio on August 13, an AI app builder that lets professional service firms generate client-facing software such as onboardin…
A new analysis from Base44 identifies four sources of free AI coding credits in 2026—provider trial balances, student or startup programs, vendor free tiers, and ad-funded grants—and warns that only r…
A 2025 analysis by security firm Escape DAST of 5,600 vibe-coded apps built on platforms like Loveable, Replit, Base44, and Bolt found over 2,000 apps with security issues, including 2,038 critical vu…
AI coding agents have become so capable that a non-technical founder can ship a working product in a weekend, prompting venture capitalists to shift their focus from whether a startup has a technical …
Maor Shlomo sold solo-founded AI app builder Base44 to Wix in June 2025 for $92.158 million in total purchase consideration, including $18.058 million in cash and $74.1 million in contingent considera…
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said AI coding tools address only part of an engineer's workflow, estimating that writing code accounts for 25% to 50% of an engineer's time, while product reviews, design meeting…
At .debug 2026, RedAccess discovered 380,000 publicly accessible vibe-coded applications, with 5,000 lacking security or authentication and 40% exposing sensitive data. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breac…
Base44, a Wix-owned startup founded by Maor Shlomo, launched a seven-day developer competition on July 21st offering $10,000 to one winner for an application built through an external IDE or AI coding…
A scan of 1,868 public apps built with AI coding tools found that only 23% pass an 80-point production-ready bar, 24% have at least one critical finding, and 15% contain a hardcoded secret or API key,…
In June 2025, Wix paid $80 million in cash for Base44, a six-month-old company built solo by Maor Shlomo, who grew it entirely by documenting the build in public on LinkedIn and X; nine months later i…
Figma vice president of product design Noah Levin told Business Insider that AI tools have raised the bar for what he expects from job candidates, requiring them to produce high-fidelity prototypes an…
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami said the tech industry gives AI 'too much credit' and that it is not smart enough to replace white-collar jobs, despite his company's $200 million investment in the vibe-codin…
At HackHazards'26, the team Git Push Pray built Dial2AI, a multilingual voice-based AI assistant that makes generative AI accessible through a regular phone call without requiring internet, a smartpho…
Controlled trials show vibe coding accelerates fresh builds by 26% to 56%, and a six-month-old vibe-coding product sold for an initial $80 million plus earn-outs. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code hav…
AI companies captured 65% of US venture dollars in 2025, but the funding is concentrated in megadeals while small seed rounds shrank 20%. Only about one in six seed-stage AI startups reaches a Series …
Oded, co-founder of UniPaaS, tested three methods for integrating external payment providers into Base44 apps: MCP connections, OpenAPI integrations, and backend functions. The MCP connection provisio…
Founders launching AI-built apps must evaluate code ownership, build limits, data security, and pre-launch technical reviews, as highlighted by Builder.ai's bankruptcy after raising $450 million from …
A Hacker News user asks whether developers are paying for AI coding tools like Lovable, Replit, and Base44, and whether they use them for mockups or production products with paying customers. The user…