How to Write a Build Spec for Your AI App (Beginner Guide): A beginner guide from the founder of GoodVibeSpecs
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How do you start building an AI app when you have never built one before? Most people open ChatGPT, Cursor, Bolt, or Lovable and start typing. And most people end up frustrated. Not because the AI tools are bad. Because the starting point was vague. The real problem with vibe coding as a beginner Vibe coding - describing what you want in plain English and letting AI generate the app - has completely changed what is possible for non-technical people. A quarter of YC Winter 2025 startups had codebases that were 95% AI-generated.