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Twelve questions people actually type at 1am before building their first app. Whether you need a CS degree. Whether AI-written code is safe. How long it takes, what it costs in India, and how to tell when the model got it wrong. Each answered in under sixty words.
No warm-up paragraph, no “great question”, no “it depends” where a straight answer exists. Where it genuinely does depend, the answer says what it depends on.
Yes. AI app builders like Lovable, Bolt and Replit turn a written description into a working app, and you steer them in plain English. You still need judgment: what to build, whether the result actually works, and where it breaks. That part nobody has automated. Coding is optional now. Checking is not.
Vibe coding is describing what you want in plain language, letting an AI model write the code, and judging the result by whether it runs rather than by reading every line. Andrej Karpathy named it in February 2025. It is fast, and it is exactly why checking the output matters more than it used to.
A small, single-purpose app takes one to four hours end to end, including deploying it. The generating part is often twenty minutes. The rest is what nobody films: fixing what the model got wrong, connecting a database, and getting a live URL that still works tomorrow morning.
₹0 for a first build, if you stay inside free tiers. Lovable, Bolt, Replit and Supabase all ship one, and a small app fits inside it. Cost starts when you need always-on hosting, a higher message limit, or a custom domain. Every build published here is ₹0 to build and ₹0 to keep running.
Not automatically. Models write code that runs and is still unsafe: API keys left in the frontend, a database with no access rules, forms that accept anything typed into them. The generating is not the risk. Shipping it unread is. Check what touches user data and what is publicly reachable.
Anything needing a decision nobody wrote down. Models are strong where there are millions of public examples and weak on your specific constraints: a payment flow matching one bank's rules, real concurrency, anything where being subtly wrong is expensive. It also cannot tell you whether the thing is worth building.
No. You need a working machine, an internet connection, and something specific you want to exist. A degree teaches the theory underneath the tools, and the tools no longer require it. What a degree still buys is a hiring signal, and one live URL with real users buys a comparable one faster.
Most AI app builders deploy for you: one button, and you get a URL on their subdomain. Anything built locally goes to Vercel, Netlify or Replit, connected to a GitHub repo and deployed on push. Deploying is the easy half. Staying reachable, on a tier that does not sleep, is the half that fails.
Yes, by the only test that matters: somebody can open the URL and use it. A no-code app runs on the same hosting, stores data in the same kind of database, and breaks in the same ways. The real limits are depth and cost at scale, not legitimacy.
It runs and the result is still wrong. The tells: data that saves but never comes back, a call to a method that does not exist, hardcoded values where a variable belongs. Use the thing like a stranger would, then check what it actually wrote to the database.
No-code assembles an app from prebuilt blocks in a visual editor, and you stay inside what the platform supports. Vibe coding generates real code from a description, so you can go anywhere the language goes and you inherit real bugs. No-code has a ceiling. Vibe coding has a floor you can fall through.
They care whether it works and whether you can explain it. A live URL with real users beats a certificate. What loses points is not the AI, it is not knowing your own project: where the data lives, why it broke, what you changed. Bring the failures, not only the demo.
Every question on this page, running. Reach for it and it slows down.
Three questions are missing from the list above and it is deliberate. Two pages targeting one question split the link equity and let the engine choose, usually wrongly. Each of these has one owner.
Send it. Questions that turn up twice get written into this page with the same forty to sixty words and the same absence of hedging, and they get answered on Instagram before they land here.