How a weekend session of vibe coding led to a fully-baked SaaS product

Kevin spends a family-free weekend “vibe coding” and accidentally builds a full SaaS: a multi-tenant lead magnet builder that creates custom, multi-step lead magnets and then generates personalized nurture emails tied to each prospect’s exact inputs. The bigger lesson is not just the tool, it’s the shift in what’s now possible for non-developers with the right AI workflow: Claude Code plus a simple stack (Supabase, Vercel) can compress months of work into days. They also dig into the new marketing floor, hyper-personalization, rising content noise, and why authenticity still wins.

AI at Work — How a weekend session of vibe coding led to a fully-baked SaaS product

AI at Work Podcast — How a weekend session of vibe coding led to a fully-baked SaaS product with Elijah Szasz

Takeaways

• A “dynamic lead magnet” can generate a custom report plus a personalized nurture sequence for every single lead.

• Vibe coding is crossing the line from toy demos to real products, if you can iterate hard and think in systems.

• The economics are shifting: variable AI costs can be pennies per output, but you must monitor scale risk.

• Paid acquisition is getting AI-optimized fast, but competition and creative volume are exploding.

• Authentic voice is the differentiator, AI can amplify your take, but slop loses in a noisier world.

Chapters

00:20 Kids, viruses, and a weekend lost to vibe coding

00:39 Teaching teenagers to code and accidental vulnerabilities

01:47 From simple lead magnet to something much bigger

04:20 Generative reports customized to every user

05:17 Hyper-personalized email sequences tied to real use cases

06:24 Token costs, model choices, and AI economics

10:25 The elevator pitch for a lead magnet building SaaS

14:34 CRM integrations, HubSpot automation, and product expansion

27:35 Meta ads, AI optimization, and the future of paid traffic

45:53 The real stack behind shipping, Claude Code, Supabase, and Vercel

Links

• Launchpad by Ascend Labs

• Ascend AI

• Leadworks AI

• Claude Code

• Claude Desktop download

• Claude Max plan

• Supabase

• Vercel

• HubSpot Sequences

• Clay

• Mailchimp

• Lovable

• Cursor

• Windsurf

• Loom

• Google Gemini

• Projects in ChatGPT

• Sora by OpenAI

• Google Ads

• Reddit

• Meta Ads Manager

• Alex Hormozi $100M Offers

• Ezra Firestone and Smart Marketer

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