I used to swear by Bubble and WeWeb. They are great, but the "Frontend Tax" (complexity + cost) was slowing me down.

This week, I tried something different. I call it "Full Vibe Coding."

I built GroupJuicer (a WhatsApp Lead Extraction tool) in just 5 days.
Expenses on Frontend Tools? $0. 🛑

The Stack:
🧠 Brain: Gemini (Google AI Studio)
⚙️ Logic: Xano (The backbone)
🌐 Free Hosting: Netlify (Drag & Drop)

The Workflow (The Magic):

1. Build the Logic in Xano: I set up my database and API endpoints. I know exactly what data is going in and out.

2. Talk to Gemini: I didn't write a single line of React from scratch. I simply pasted my Xano JSON response and said:

   "Here is the API endpoint and the response structure. Build me a Cyberpunk-themed Dashboard with a 'Blast' modal that connects to this."

3. Deploy: Downloaded the ZIP file from Gemini, dragged it into Netlify. Live in seconds.

Why I’m skipping Low-Code Frontends:

• Design Freedom: Gemini gave me a high-end, animated UI (Tailwind + Framer Motion) that would have taken me weeks to replicate in a drag-and-drop builder.

• Complex Logic Made Easy: Things that are "hard" in Bubble (like specific array manipulations or complex state management) are easy for the AI to just write in code.

• Cost: Netlify hosting is free. No monthly subscription for a frontend builder.

Why Xano is crucial here:
You can't "Vibe Code" effectively if your backend is messy. Because Xano gives me strict, clean API endpoints, the AI never hallucinated the logic. It just hooked up the wires.

If you haven't tried letting AI build your Xano frontend yet... you are sleeping on a superpower. ⚡️

https://groupjuicer.com

We've had an endpoint in another platform that shall not be named which has been causing us major headaches. We have to respond in less than 3000ms and around 5% of the time we couldn't do it.

It was a core, high impact piece of our platform so I was hesitant to risk a rebuild but I finally got fed up enough with the pain it was causing and rebuilt it in Xano last week. It was much simpler to rebuild than I imagined and, well, the improvement in our response time is 🤯

Just wanted to shoutout Xano a bit!

#headachesbegone

Inactive Member Robert Boulos

More fun - tables designed in dbdiagram.io (https://dbdiagram.io/) -> XANO via ClaudeCode & Snappy MCP.

FYI - the table reference it missed was a reference to a table already in Xano - outside of the DBML I pasted - which is why it did not create that on as a table ref - ALL the other refs were there and good.

https://supercut.ai/share/orbiterio/KDEr2DIZiBJxfq1DRTrzn9

Inactive Member Robert Boulos Okay - just wanna share - loving this new way of working so much! Huge shout out to Ray Deck for making some tweeky tweeks to the extension for me.
https://supercut.ai/share/orbiterio/PZcFtwn4dfcabtUA95mc7Y

Hey everyone!

I created a small CLI tool to give CLI-based coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and more get error feedback.

I built it primarily for use with Claude Code using the Claude Skills feature which has been working great for me!

I hope this helps someone ship something cool this weekend 🚀

Demo and setup:
https://youtu.be/EBu5bFVxT1o

Check it out here:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/xanoscript-lint