You Might Not Need A CTO For Your Startups – A Consultant's Guide to Vibe Coding.

Suddenly, your business idea does not need $1m of starting capital.

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I receive calls and messages all the time from founders asking for investments. The nature of my job is in investment-preparation. So yes, I’d help them out with the documents and so.

The reality of the entrepreneurship market is that it’s full of ideas. I once had a call with someone asking for $50 billion based on an idea. Ideas are the easiest part of entrepreneurship. You know what’s not easy? Coding the product.

A mouth can speak all day, but can it cook an omelette? No, you need your hands (vote for this as the worst metaphor of all time.)

CTOs (Chief Technical Officers) are not easy to find. Put yourself in their position. You get calls from your “friends” with business ideas that they want you to create and give you an equity in it. If you’re a good developer, this will be happening often.

So it’s becoming very difficult to match those two parties. That was all until GPT launched. A new movement called “Vibe Coding” started. In short, it’s using AI as a CTO.

For instance, if I want to code a calculator, I would tell GPT or Claude to do so. Actually, I’ll do this right now.

My Prompt “code a simple good looking calculator in html”

In practically 60 seconds, this is the output —

Output from user’s prompt.

1. Yes, it works.

2. Who cares? it’s just a calculator. I won’t raise investments for that.

Here’s the thing – the capability of creating a calculator in 60 seconds puts those AI tools as quite a good CTO for the MVP phase of a startup.

Let me explain from a consultant’s perspective. Then chit chat about my personal attempt in vibe coding, and how I’m launching this to the public after 6 months of working on it.

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