Vibe Coding, For Real: From Demo to Live App, the Step-by-Step Method for Builders Who Hit the Wall (Build With AI Book 1) by Philippe Eveilleau
English | April 27, 2026 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0GYQHLSCB | 257 pages | EPUB | 1.81 Mb
You opened Cursor. You typed "build me an app." Something appeared. It looked real. You tried to add login and the whole thing fell apart.
You're not alone. Vibe coding produces beautiful demos and broken apps. The gap between "the AI built it" and "the AI built something I can ship" is where most people quit.
This book is the bridge.
Vibe Coding, For Real teaches the Blueprint Method, an eight-step process to build apps the AI can keep building on, without collapsing under their own weight. You apply it across every feature of one real project, until it becomes muscle memory.
You don't write a single line of code. The AI writes everything. Your job is to specify, push back, and verify. That's the whole skill.
By the end, you will have shipped a working CRM for independent artisans: clients, job sites, quotes with PDF export, multi-user authentication, dashboard, deployed live. Same stack as a real production SaaS: Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel. The companion repository is open source and fully tested. Every prompt in the book produced the code that runs there.
Who this book is for:You tried "vibe coding" and got a demo, not an appYou don't know how to code, but you're willing to read carefully and push back when the AI suggests something stupidYou want to ship a real product, not collect tutorialsYou've never used the terminal, Git, Supabase, or Vercel, and that's fine. You'll learnWho this book is NOT for:Senior developers who want production-grade specs (read Prompt Contracts instead, the advanced framework, this book is the on-ramp)People who want a magic button. There's no shortcut. The method takes practiceLovable / Bolt loyalists who never want to leave their cloud builder. This book uses real tools the AI can edit directlyWhat's inside:The Blueprint Method explained step by stepReady-to-use prompts, organized by featureWalkthroughs for: setup, design, CRUD, relations, PDF, auth, multi-tenant security (RLS), tests, dashboard, payments, going liveAnti-patterns: where vibe coding silently breaks, and how to detect it before users doWhere the method breaks (chapter 13). Honest limits, and what to do nextWhat you'll need: a computer, an AI coding tool (Claude Code recommended, Cursor or Codex CLI also work), and about 15 hours of focused work.
The companion app is at github.com/rentierdigital/crm-artisan. The book teaches the method. The repo proves it works.
Stop collecting tutorials. Build something real.
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