Open Vibe — Vibe code your way to real web dev skills

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Ship your
SaaS with AI. Confidently.

Build the skills of a pro coder while you ship a real SaaS app! Open Vibe turns Claude Code (or your agent of choice) into the ultimate SaaS tutor, teaching the most important concepts while you build.

✓ 100% free & open source ✓ No signup ✓ MIT licensed

BEHIND THE SCENES

How does adding a task work?

01/06

=}

Open Vibe v1.0.0

~/my-todo-app

what happens behind the scenes when I click "add task"?

Let me show you with a diagram on your app.

Diagram (render "behind-the-scenes" · 1/6)

│ overlay rendered

POST /add-task HTTP/1.1

Host: localhost:3000

>

See it in action

Here's a quick demo.

Stop getting left in the dark.

Stuck in the prompt-fix loop?

On vibe coding platforms, every prompt is a roll of the dice. You burn credits going in circles instead of learning what would actually let you ship.

📁 my-saas credits: 93 / 100

> dashboard is empty

fixed +3 credits

> login is broken

fixed +4 credits

> the colors are STILL wrong

fixed +6 credits

>

🔒 my-saas.lovable.app/dashboard

Welcome back,
[object Object]

GET /api/fetch-data → 500

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

no data to display

add data

Open Vibe breaks the loop

Why Open Vibe

Learn as you build. Ship faster.

Tutorials teach with throwaway apps. Vibe coding builds apps you don't understand. Open Vibe fixes both problems at once.

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Free and open-source

Static tutorials cost $200–$400 for content that's outdated the day it ships. Open Vibe is open-source and stays free forever.

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Tutorials live in your agent

Run Open Vibe in your terminal, and your agent tutors as you build your SaaS. When something breaks, you understand why.

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Everything runs locally

Your code on your machine. No token-limit surprises, no platform lock-in. When you're done, the agent helps you deploy your app to the web.

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Learn fast, ship faster

Time spent learning compounds. Time spent re-prompting doesn't.

For aspiring founders

Learn exactly what you need while you build your SaaS.

You'll build your own SaaS with our free SaaS starter template, Open SaaS, and actually understand what you built.

OPEN SAAS

Launch your SaaS on the same stack as other successful builders.

> Let's deploy my SaaS app to the web! ready in ~5 min

🚀

MIT-licensed

100% yours forever

🛠

Built by Wasp

Same team, same quality bar

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Accept payments

Make revenue right away!

How it works

The course lives inside your agent.

Not a video library. Not a PDF. A set of skills, instructions, and interactive components that turn Claude Code — or any capable agent — into the world's most patient tutor.

STEP 01

Paste the install prompt

Copy and pasting the prompt below drops the curriculum into your Claude Code (or any agent). No signup required.

I'm starting the "Ship Your First App" course. Run `curl -fsSL https://openvibe.sh/llms.txt` and follow the file's instructions.

STEP 02

Build alongside your tutor

Start building your app idea. The agent guides you step-by-step; building, explaining, pairing, and quizzing.

~/my-todo-app

=} Everything clear so far?

Makes sense. Let's continue with the lesson

STEP 03

Learn interactively

When confusion arises, go deep. Ask the questions that improve your understanding. Interact with live diagrams on top of your running app.

LIVE

BROWSER React SERVER Node.js /add-task DB POST INSERT

click any node → the agent explains it

Curriculum

Choose your own (learning) adventure.

Start with the lessons that suit you. Go at your own pace. New modules drop as they're ready.

PHASE 1

Learn the basics of web apps

AVAILABLE

Build and deploy a full-stack app from scratch while your agent explains how the web and apps work.Start here if you're a newbie

Setup Environment & tools

AVAILABLE

Module 0 Your First Web App

AVAILABLE

Module 1 Data & The Database

COMING SOON

Module 2 Making It Look Good

COMING SOON

Module 3 How It All Connects

COMING SOON

Module 4 & Beyond TBD...

COMING SOON

PHASE 2

Build a SaaS with Open SaaS

AVAILABLE

Build your SaaS idea on top of Open SaaS — a production-ready template with auth, payments, admin, email, and AI built in — while learning the essentials.Start here if you vibe with the basics

Module 1 What's in the Box?

AVAILABLE

Module 2 The Auth → Payment → Access Loop

AVAILABLE

Module 3 Wire Up Real Payments

COMING SOON

Modules 4 & Beyond TBD...

COMING SOON

Yes. Open Vibe is 100% free and open source. The curriculum, the skills, the diagrams — all of it, under MIT. Fork it, remix it, run your own class with it.

No. Open Vibe can be used by beginners or pros. You set the pace and focus your efforts as you see fit. If you can type, follow instructions, and stay curious, you can do this.

It's been designed and tested in Claude Code but the course pack is plain Markdown and runs in any agent that can read files and execute tools.

You'll bring your own agent (Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.) and its key or subscription. The course itself is free — we just teach on top of the tools you already use.

The curriculum is built for ten weeks at ~6 hrs/week. People blow through it in three; people take six months. Your agent is patient either way.

No. It's a course you do with an AI tutor. What you have at the end is three real apps in your GitHub and the knowledge to build more — which employers tend to find more convincing than paper.

Because vibe-coding with an agent is how we actually build in 2026 — and Open Vibe teaches you to do it well, instead of building fragile apps you don't understand.

Start vibing. Start shipping.

One command. No signup required.

> I'm starting the "Ship Your First App" course. Run `curl -fsSL https://openvibe.sh/llms.txt` and follow the file's instructions.

Copy and paste this prompt into your agent!

★ MIT licensed no account required works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Open Code, etc.