Turning Vibe Coding into Production-Ready Development: Inside Elia Saquand and Alessia Paccagnella's Journey to build VibeFlow
The rise of vibe coding has changed the development landscape practically overnight, with both technical and nontechnical users experimenting with AI-driven development in their workflows. What started as experimentation has quickly evolved into serious business tools that developers and entrepreneurs rely on daily.
But as vibe coding has progressed from novelty to preferred tool, many have begun to question the viability of AI tools. While these tools enable non-technical users to create compelling frontends, they are weak on backend logic and offer little control over what they generate, raising concerns about security and robustness for production use. As a result, businesses trying to make their apps and websites fully functional are forced to stitch together multiple tools, while creating unstable systems that can't scale.
After witnessing this frustration within the no-code development community, Elia Saquand and co-founder Alessia Paccagnella set out to build VibeFlow, an all-in-one platform that brings UI generation, backend logic, and database functionality together to build robust, production-ready applications.
Introducing VibeFlow: The Future of Intelligent Development
Most AI-development tools only support a single aspect of a development process, forcing users to pay for multiple tools to build a launch-ready product. For example, a user might combine Lovable for UI generation, n8n for backend logic, and Supabase for databases. But this fragmented approach creates security vulnerabilities through exposed public endpoints. Additionally, users only have partial code ownership, with backend logic trapped as configurations in n8n, and must juggle three different accounts, leading to vendor lock-in and fragility in production environments.
With VibeFlow, users can create production-ready apps without having to juggle multiple tools. The platform lets users edit their frontend in a visual, no-code editor, which is positioned alongside a backend logic graph that users can modify through low-code or AI assistance.
Any moves users make are mapped to deterministic code, ensuring control and debuggability, unlike black-box AI solutions. "This makes VibeFlow robust,” Elia explains, “because the AI is not touching the code directly, the AI is touching the node-based backend flows, and the flows generate the code."
Finally, VibeFlow provisions users with a Convex backend from the get-go, eliminating the need for separate database accounts and the complexity of managing multiple subscriptions.
Elia and Alessia’s Journey to VibeFlow
After first meeting while pursuing their master's degrees at ETH Zurich, Elia and Alessia both initially entered the corporate world after graduating. Elia gained experience in AI research at Stanford and Sony AI, and later worked as a founding engineer building prompt-to-low-code tools that allowed non-technical users to generate clinical trial dashboards. Meanwhile, Alessia worked for 4 years as a software engineer. She built a tool that shared the exact same concept as VibeFlow: a no-code platform enabling non-technical users to programmatically create complex models.
But after a few years, both felt strong desires to found a startup, and both needed a co-founder. Alessia worked with potential co-founders through the YC network but struggled to find someone that was as willing as she was to go full-in, while Elia joined Entrepreneur First in Paris but faced similar challenges finding the right commitment level.
When catching up with each other about the challenge of finding a co-founder with the same level of ambition, they realized they'd already found that in each other, and decided to start a company together.
The team iterated on a few different ideas, but eventually decided to lean into their expertise in AI and dev tools and identified the market opportunity for a tool like VibeFlow by observing the challenges many were facing related to AI-driven development.
Elia and Alessia built the initial prototype for VibeFlow in just one month. Once they released it across YC, Product Hunt (where it won Product of the Day), and Hacker News, they generated over 6,000 active users in just three weeks, many of whom are solopreneurs and non-technical founders who need to build reliable apps and websites quickly and efficiently. The team have also launched a Discord community in which users can meet, share feedback, and request features. As they move forward, Elia and Alessia are focused on expanding their integration ecosystem and continuing to drive growth through sharing customers’ success stories and facilitating word-of-mouth marketing.
Elia's Advice for Fellow Founders
Since deciding to work together, Elia and Alessia’s path to initial success with VibeFlow has been anything but predictable. Elia believes that what’s kept them going has been their strength as a team, which has allowed them to keep iterating through multiple pivots and challenges.
"The most important thing is the team," Elia emphasizes. "If you have the right person to continue building with you, you can go very far. Choose someone that is in for the long-term, not just a specific idea."
And once they’ve landed on an idea and have a minimum viable product, Elia recommends founders expose themselves to user feedback early and often. "It can be hard, but build in public. Launch before you feel ready. It’s tempting to keep polishing, but the only way to truly validate your assumptions is to put it out there. You might think you know what users want, but the real answers only emerge once people actually use the product.”
To learn more about Elia and Alessia’s journey, you can follow Elia on LinkedIn here and on X here, Alessia on LinkedIn here and on X here, and visit vibeflow.ai.
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