I’m Building 100 Tools With AI
Tags: AI | Indie Development | Vibcoding | Open Source I used to be a backend engineer. Building APIs, setting up services, tuning queues and keeping systems stable. Every project started with careful tradeoffs around architecture, standards and maintainability. Solid, but heavy. Turning an idea into reality used to require a long planning journey. Now I’ve switched up my workflow: vibcoding . No longer chained to rigid engineering rituals. I don’t wait for everything to be perfect before starting. When an idea pops up, I use AI as my lever and rapidly build a working prototype. I’ve set myself a wild, fun goal: build 100 tools with AI. These won’t be polished SaaS products, venture-backed pitches or massive platforms for millions of users. They are small, sharp utilities, each built to solve one tiny, real, annoying pain point: local PDF redaction, batch format conversion, browser automation scripts, lightweight RAG assistants, log organizers, batch processing scripts, data valida...