My journey into vibe coding

We're entering a new era with these AI and vibe coding tools. I'm a STRONG BELIEVER that Revenue Operations professionals are well positioned to bring forth tremendous value from it. I set out on a side project to build an application for myself. Rather than gatekeep it, I thought it would be amazing to share it with others.

So.

They say you should build in public. Here's my attempt at doing so with Draft Grain, a tool I am using myself to engage on LinkedIn. First time product builder 🙋♂️ so bear with me.

Reasons why I think RevOps will be amazing in this new era

• Knows how to create Product Requirement Documentation --> after all, RevOps in many orgs serve as head of product for internal processes and infrastructure
• Technical oriented. Build. Hit an error. Troubleshoot. Innovate. Hit an error. Troubleshoot.
• Architecture oriented. RevOps pros know data models, business logic, and frontend design.
• Serving the customer. When a sales rep or SDR dislikes a new process or UI. They let you know. Listening to feedback and logging it for the next sprint.

Here's my commitment for the next few weeks. I'll share where I'm at with own building journey in addition to my normal Revenue Operations and GTM Leadership content.

Without further adieu:

✅ Ten signups last week as BETA tester (thank you for signing up, reporting bugs, and sending me ideas 🙏

➡️ SHIPPED

- Voice Learner: analyzes your posts and creates a fingerprint of your voice and topics you talk about most

- Voice Coach: reviews your posts one by one

- Clear Post Feedback: you tell the app WHY you didn't like the post

- Feedback Architect: runs in the background and learns from your voice and feedback. Takes this feedback and iterates for you

- Quick Post: you click the topic pill and a post is generated (I highly suggest you read and edit)

- Preview pane with Unicode (LinkedIn bold, italics, etc.)

- Schedule Post: you schedule the post and it will ship to LinkedIn

- Meme Generator: offers a library of memes for you to edit and add as an image to your post. Work can be serious, but your message can also offer some humor

- GIF Generator: same thing as the meme generator but with GIFs instead

- Voice-to-Post: on the road? great. talk into the app. Say some wisdom. The post generator creates options for you. You still do the editing and scheduling

- Sponsored Posts: you're an influencer posting on behalf of a brand. That's a thing these days. So you type in the URL of the sponsor and it will research the company for you. Offer you some post options. You review, edit, and schedule

- Structures: I'm a student of copywriting. There are some writing archetypes you can learn from and add into your posts (i.e. personal story, rage bait, humblebrag, numbered lists)

- Custom Prompts: canned prompts is for the birds you say. I agree. Write in your own!

👷UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• Referral code generator: working on a new application
• Agency mode: a mode for agencies managing other profiles
• Analytics: actually getting analytics into the platform

BUGS, BUGS, BUGS OH MY

Lots of issues with the first iteration of the application. Here's what I worked through:

• Unicode not showing up correctly: post previews would ignore bold depending on the combination of post configurations
• Unicode would not undo: after posting with bold there was no way to unbold
• Text buffering and cursor issues: a user would write but then the last 5 characters would disappear and the cursor would bounce around
• LinkedIn OAuth wouldn't work correctly after disconnecting and reconnecting
• Figuring out how to set up Stripe integration with Draft Grain

My takeaways

I've always been quite technical. But having a full scale application created from end-to-end is quite remarkable. A new wave of SaaS providers is coming. I built one for myself. Perhaps it'll be useful to you as well.

Try out Draft Grain: www.draftgrain.com.