Recently, as I'm sure everyone has seen, vibe coding has become the next big thing on the internet. Some people are raving about it, some are worrying, and some are shaming it. But one thing is for certain — it's here to stay, and it's only getting better from here.
The AI Billionaire Boom
A stat I read this morning was about how AI is creating more billionaires than any other phase in history:
"There are now 498 AI "unicorns," or private AI companies with valuations of $1 billion or more... Fully 100 of them were founded since 2023." (Frank, 2025)
Now, I know most of these won't be vibe-coded SaaS platforms, but what amazes me is that, with the technology we have today, people have been able to build faster and more than ever before. Without touching too much on the topic of security — because, as some might know, vibe-coded platforms seem to basically have none — these SaaS platforms are limited only by the imagination of the person building them.
The Marketing Challenge
The difficulty with these platforms is more on the marketing front: how do you create something great and then tell everyone about it?
Well… let me tell you — you'll receive about 100 spam emails from companies / people telling you to pay them thousands of dollars for online marketing, writing articles, or doing videos for you. Ever since I started putting projects I've made on ProductHunt, I've received tons of these. But ultimately, I think they're a waste of time.
It seems the only real way to get people to find your products and services these days is by face-to-face conversations. Companies know this all too well — with social media platforms, they pay huge sums of money to share their content online and to get social media influencers to talk about them. And now, with the rise of AI, AI search optimisation seems to be replacing the SEO standard. It's a gold rush to find out who can optimise your product or service best for AI.
The Solo Developer Revolution
But regardless of how one shows off their product to the world, one still has to have the idea and the grit to build it! So now we all stand at a crossroads. Sam Altman in an interview with Cleo Abram said:
"I can imagine a single person company that scales to $1 billion in valuation, with the use of AI" (Cleo Abram, 2025)
What's crazy to me is that we now, in this age, have more tools at our fingertips than ever before — and the question is: what shall we make? Our imagination is the only limitation.
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References
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Cleo Abram (2025). Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtuvNfytjM [Accessed 12 Aug. 2025].
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Frank, R. (2025). AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace. [online] CNBC. Available at: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-billionaires-wealth.html [Accessed 12 Aug. 2025].