VibeCode App: Startup of the Week

A Replit for mobile apps

Author

Henry Head
April 21, 2025

Hi Pitch Club. This weeks startup feature is VibeCode. The company has been gaining traction on X, but is pre-public launch, and has been showcasing their Vibecode App (in beta for iOS) that lets you build other mobile apps, and can help deploy them directly to test flight.

Why we are interested

There is something tantamount to a gold rush going on in vibe-coding/IDE platforms right now. Cursor, Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Vercel, to name a few, are all competing to be the low tech knowledge platform of our dreams, turning words into products effortlessly for ~$20 a month.

So why try to back a new player? Because we don’t think anyone has really figured out mobile yet. Almost all the platforms are using similar base models, building in react native, mostly designed for web apps and websites. VibeCode (also react native I believe), is at least attempting to differentiate by directly going after the mobile application market. It is a market filled with many, many founders that are desperate willing to pay handsomely to get their MVP to the app store.

A huge part of the utility of products like Replit is that they have built deployment directly into their platforms. Making it as easy to have a live web app as clicking the deploy button – as Replit handles the build, version control, and hosting. If VibeCode as a company can accomplish a similar ease for deploying iOS apps (which requires reviews and quality controls), they will immediately attract thousands of users. There is even more opportunity for custom models for mobile development (think a Swift/Swift UI specific Cursor).

The Product

Founder: Ansh Nanda - Duke Alum, Former BlueSky, Former YC Series A

Round: Pre-seed or no current funding data available

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