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AI co-founder for builders

You shouldn't have to build alone.

What it is

vyb is an AI co-founder for people building real things, mostly alone. It pairs each builder with a persistent agent that lives on their own server, holds context across every session, writes code, runs ops, sends email, and shows up the next day knowing what happened the day before. The wager is simple: the people building the most interesting things in the next decade aren't going to be teams of fifty. They're going to be one or two builders with the right partner. vyb is that partner. Most of the work lately has been the unglamorous kind that makes a platform real: locking down per-builder data with row-level security, aligning the agent runtime's scheduling and crash recovery to OpenClaw's best practices, retiring the old subsystems, and building the tooling to roll config changes across every builder's gateway at once. The agents now run reliably while their builders are asleep.

Why it exists

Most builders are working alone. The tools are powerful but they don't remember what happened yesterday, don't show up proactively, and go dark the moment you close the laptop. The people building the most interesting things in the next decade won't be teams of fifty. They'll be one or two people with the right partner.

How it's built

Next.js 15SupabaseRailwayOpenClawAnthropic ClaudeAgentMailTypeScript

What's inside

core

Chat

A persistent AI co-founder in your browser. Every session continues where the last one left off — no re-explaining, no lost context.

Agent Email

Your agent gets its own inbox. It manages outreach, replies to threads, and follows up autonomously on your behalf.

Morning Brief

A daily briefing email: what shipped yesterday, what's on today, what needs a decision. Delivered before you open your laptop.

Memory

Full context across every session. Your agent remembers your business, your decisions, your team, and your preferences.

Voice

The agent can speak. Voice-note style delivery for briefings, updates, and anything worth hearing instead of reading.

builder

Canvas Apps

Mini apps the agent builds and embeds inline in chat. Fulfillment panels, booking dashboards, ops tools — all without leaving the conversation.

Connections

Connect your tools: Google Workspace, Square, Stripe, Shopify, GitHub, and more. Your agent uses them directly.

Skills

Teachable workflows. Train your agent to own repeatable tasks exactly the way you'd want them done, every time.

platform

Team

Invite teammates. Everyone works with the same agent, sharing context and history across every session.

Goals & Tasks

The agent tracks what you're working toward and surfaces open items proactively — without you having to ask.

The story
01

The meetup

July 15, 2025

I built a platform for the vyb meetup in Pittsburgh — authentication, project cards, event RSVPs, a Swiss design system. The software served the community I was running. It was the first commit in what would become vyb.

Proof of work

58bd84aInitial commit from Create Next App
0e01aabAdd core features for AI collaborative platform: authentication, project management, and user interface components
9dd911dImplement vyb Swiss Design System styles and enhance layout for mobile navigation
bce3665Update layout metadata — community-driven mission of vyb
02

The room fills up

July 16–17, 2025

RSVP system, mobile nav, email flows, floating join button. Ready for the next Pittsburgh vyb event. I ran live events. Hundreds of builders showed up.

Proof of work

131cb2fEnhance EventCard component by adding attendee fetching functionality and displaying attendee avatars
1b103e7Enhance Home and Sidebar with responsive design — hero section for unauthenticated users, mobile drawer
bcb087eAdd Floating Join Button to multiple pages for enhanced user engagement
817576dEnhance mobile UX — floating join button, streamlined navigation, improved event system. Ready for the next Pittsburgh vyb event!
03

Email studio

July 20–24, 2025

Newsletter campaigns, attendee targeting, rate-limited send sequences. The community had its own email infrastructure.

Proof of work

fdf1889Refactor send-campaign API: Replace Supabase client with admin client for enhanced security
198d7c7Enhance Email Sending Architecture: Implement Sequential Processing with Rate Limiting
6577329Add Event Email Sequences Section: Introduce UI for managing event email sequences
e3e4e3dEnhance Newsletter Functionality: Personalize email content with recipient first name
50ee74dEnhance Image and Video Generation Features in API and UI
04

vyb 4

August 12, 2025

Fourth meetup. Committed directly to the repo. The events were real and the community was growing.

Proof of work

c6865bcfeat: add vyb 4 event with full-width cassette tape image
05

The pivot

September 22, 2025

I refocused the build page on AI coding agents and updated the terminology. The language changed. The meetup platform started pointing at something larger.

Proof of work

8c431e5Add specific poster images for mobile video thumbnails
03e8d33Add sneak peek cooking image for vyb 5 email announcement
998fb95Complete automated email system for vyb members
eb7dd71Refocus build page on AI coding agents and update terminology
8d12330feat: implement Cal.com booking integration
06

The architecture

March 13, 2026

Vyb builds agents, studios brand them. The agent reads the studio repo as its source of truth. The product insight crystallized in code. One week later a new repo started.

Proof of work

ec6bcc7Reframe: Vyb builds agents, studios brand them
f843d5fAgent reads the studio repo as its source of truth
af711fdSpecify GitHub App as the repo connection mechanism
b9784b0Add Vyb architecture documentation
a0a802dAdd comprehensive Data Ownership framework to Vyb Deal
07

The platform

March 22, 2026

First commit in vyb-space/vyb. Per-builder gateway routing, provisioning architecture, AgentMail integration, outreach page. Not a first version — a fully-formed idea in a new home.

Proof of work

2bbac92feat: per-builder gateway routing — each builder talks to their own co-founder
aed5b2aadd full provisioning architecture doc (hetzner + github + railway + agentmail)
d37f3a1feat: /outreach page with thread view and jump-in compose
192613afeat: proactive email notifications — webhook wakes agent, draft UI, thread polling
defac52feat: jump-in attribution — sends as Rocky Medure (via vyb) to recipient
08

James

March 23–30, 2026

I seeded James LaRosa's gateway files and wrote the provisioning runbook from the experience. First paying customer. The platform worked.

Proof of work

2f90af8Add James LaRosa gateway seed files — USER.md + MEMORY.md ready for provisioning
092e015docs: builder provisioning runbook — manual process + lessons from James
e182c53Add James LaRosa case study — RGP operator use case, adaptive framing research
8facdbafeat: seed James program card at provision time, skip generic onboarding
09

Full birth

March 24, 2026

Full birth provisioning — AgentMail, GitHub, credentials, SSH key. A builder's entire digital infrastructure provisioned in one flow.

Proof of work

d041161feat: full birth provisioning — AgentMail, GitHub, credentials, SSH key
718b01efeat: gateway pool infrastructure — table, types, claim endpoint
f855a98feat: pool coach + Supabase project provisioning
11d8ae1feat: single provisioning path — guest to signup to co-founder
411e5bcfeat: expand provisioning with full co-founder personality and tools docs
10

Skills

April 1–7, 2026

Deploy skill, sub-agents, domain registration, image and audio generation. The agent learned new capabilities every week.

Proof of work

353f7c8feat: add deploy skill for VPS previews and Railway deploys
a047a83feat: add sub-agents skill and polish panel/card UI
7d8005afeat: domain registration via Namecheap API
01ec9bafeat: image-generation skill with fal.ai FLUX.2
04911bbfeat: audio-generation skill — music, SFX, TTS, dialogue
aa80e51feat: email-connect skill for builder personal/work email
11

The agent gets smarter

April 27–29, 2026

AGENTS.md from 20KB to 5.5KB. Memory reconciliation. Show-don't-describe. The contracts that made behavior consistent across every builder.

Proof of work

84809e5refactor(agents): cut AGENTS.md from 20KB to 5.5KB + memory consolidation heartbeat
93b7d95proactive: session exit protocol + queued async work + about.md enforcement
53945d3agent: add memory-reconciliation contract for status questions
7e363f0agent: enforce show-don't-describe contract for visuals
45b7c2bagent contracts: close email-send loopholes, add skill-first reflex
12

AgentMail

April 26, 2026

Email replies started waking the agent. The co-founder became reachable without the builder watching.

Proof of work

aa63d25fix: use hooks/agent instead of hooks/wake for AgentMail email wakes
d98a00ffeat(agentmail-webhook): full co-founder context on email wake
c6cdeecfix(agentmail-webhook): parse correct payload shape from AgentMail
04c1852fix(agentmail-webhook): restore rich wake text
13

The fleet

April 25, 2026

Platform credentials API. Fleet rollout scripts. Token audit across every active gateway. 23 builders, each with their own server.

Proof of work

4a6dc2ffeat: platform credentials API — shared Railway deploy token for builder agents
1549f49feat(scripts): fleet gateway rollout + token audit, with skill
65873ccfeat(admin): surface per-agent cost attribution
88432f4skill: add figma + shopify — design token extraction and headless commerce
14

The story

April 30, 2026

Your AI stops working when you do. I don't. The product had been working for months. Now the story matched it.

Proof of work

3fbdd63copy: headline — Your AI stops working when you do. vyb doesn't.
48f0ea0copy: lock in hero headline
27a2912feat: loop section chat — use VybChatCard directly (our real UI)
09c2bcafeat: loop section — clean phones, fulfillment app mockup
3d5f02dfeat: Connect your tools section — 4 natural chat examples
02fac68copy: hero CTA → Meet vyb
15

YC

May 2, 2026

I submitted at 8:27pm ET. 23 builders. One paying customer. Nectar as proof that a solo builder with vyb can build a real business fast.

Proof of work

ac78b4afeat: swap rituals and everything-you-need sections on landing page
028a29dfix: upload endpoint returns publicUrl (direct Supabase CDN) alongside viewer url
fbf9d61fix(provisioning): bake session.maintenance enforce into newly provisioned gateway configs
16

Platform hardening

May 5–13, 2026

Cron scheduling aligned to OpenClaw best practice. ACP/Claude Code subsystem retired — OpenClaw is the runtime now. RLS enabled across 19 Nectar tables and 8 vyb tables. Trial-ended builders stopped getting pinged. James LaRosa added as platform admin. The foundations got a lot more solid.

Proof of work

c4ab0027provisioning: retire ACP/Claude Code subsystem from new bakes
f289c598gateway: fix cron remove so legacy Standing Order jobs re-register correctly
07ce27dagateway: align scheduling + crash recovery to OpenClaw best practice
d56849dcsecurity: enable RLS on 8 server-only vyb.space tables + lock down provisioning skill
6c045a6security: enable RLS on all 19 public Nectar tables
15f22e02fix: trial-ended builders skip provisioning screen on auth callback
3945a9fafeat: add James LaRosa as platform admin