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Generate AI Coding Specs with VibeScaffold Wizard

Job to be done: Generate AI coding agent-ready specifications from an idea

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Ideas to get you started, adapt to your situation.

  • Student

    For your final year project (FYP) or a side hustle app idea, generate a detailed technical architecture and development plan to guide your coding or explain it to a supervisor.

  • Entrepreneur

    Turn your app idea for a new local service or e-commerce platform into a structured product vision, technical architecture, and staged development plan to share with potential co-founders or developers.

  • 9-5 employee

    For a new internal tool or feature you're proposing at work, generate a product vision and technical roadmap to present to your team or manager for approval and development.

What you’ll get

A complete set of planning documents for an app idea, a product vision, the technical plan, the data design, a staged build plan, and an AGENTS.md file, all produced by a free web wizard just by answering questions. The point: AI coding tools build far better when you hand them this kind of detailed plan up front instead of a one-line idea. No coding required to make the plan.

Tools you need

  • VibeScaffold (free): a web wizard that walks you from a rough idea to coding-agent-ready specifications.

Steps

  1. Open the wizard: go to vibescaffold.dev and start. The first step asks for your product idea.

  2. Describe your idea and MVP: answer the prompts about what you are building and its MVP (Minimum Viable Product, the smallest version worth shipping). It helps you pin down the core features and goals.

  3. Get the technical plan: the wizard generates the technical architecture (how the app is built) and the data models (how its information is structured). You should see these laid out for you.

  4. Get a staged build plan: it breaks the work into manageable stages, so you (or an AI agent) know what to build first, second, and so on.

  5. Generate the AGENTS.md: the final step produces an AGENTS.md file, a standing instruction document that AI coding agents read to understand and execute your plan.

  6. Review, then hand it to your AI coder: refine the outputs at each stage (your input is what makes them good), then feed the documents to your AI coding tool to start building.

Words you’ll see, explained

  • MVP: Minimum Viable Product, the smallest version of your idea worth building and testing.
  • Technical architecture: the plan for how the app’s pieces fit together.
  • Data model: the structure of the information the app stores (its tables and fields).
  • Staged plan: the build broken into ordered phases.
  • AGENTS.md: a file of instructions an AI coding agent reads to know how to build your project.

Original source

Based on VibeScaffold by straydusk, shared on Hacker News, a wizard built to turn raw ideas into the detailed specifications AI coding agents need to work effectively.

Notes & variations

  • Free-tier viability: VibeScaffold is entirely free.
  • Common pitfall: vague answers early on lead to weak specs. Be as specific as you can about your vision and MVP.
  • Tip for better results: read and refine the AI-generated output at each stage. The wizard provides the scaffolding; your corrections make it accurate.

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