Vybe: The AI-Powered Platform for Building Internal Tools Without Code

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, internal operations often suffer from a glaring paradox: despite advances in automation and AI, internal tools within companies remain painfully outdated. From onboarding trackers to launch calendars and status bots, much of the day-to-day "glue work" in fast-growing teams relies on clunky spreadsheets, rigid SaaS solutions, or fragile one-off scripts. These solutions either drain engineering resources, break when their creator leaves, or simply fail to scale.

Vybe, a new startup out of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, is determined to change that. The company has a clear mission: make it radically easier—and more delightful—for any employee, technical or not, to build internal tools using AI and pre-built integrations.

Vybe’s bold vision is rooted in the belief that building internal applications shouldn’t require a CS degree, and it certainly shouldn’t feel like a chore.

Who’s Behind Vybe and Why Are They Worth Paying Attention To?

Vybe is the brainchild of two repeat Y Combinator founders: Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos. Their resumes speak for themselves.

Quang previously co-founded Plato (YC W16), a mentorship platform for engineering leaders. The company raised $23 million, worked with top-tier customers like Airbnb, Slack, and Stripe, and was eventually acquired by Coda. His understanding of B2B SaaS and GTM strategy for technical audiences is extensive.

Fabien Devos, meanwhile, brings heavyweight engineering credentials to the table. He’s an ex-Facebook engineer, former Director of Engineering at Wealthfront, and the creator of the mobile coding game Hacked, which reached over 1 million downloads. He also co-founded Wolfia (YC S22), a prior AI startup.

Together, they’ve seen the internal struggles of startups and scaleups firsthand—and they’re building Vybe as the tool they wish they had.

What Exactly Is Vybe?

Vybe positions itself as the "Lovable for internal apps." What does that mean? Think of it as a vibe-coding platform (yes, that’s a thing now) designed specifically for internal company use.

At its core, Vybe offers a highly customizable toolkit packed with pre-built blocks:

Integrations with Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, Jira, and more
SSO support out of the box—build 20 apps, log in once
AI tools for summarization, web search, and code generation

It empowers users—especially non-developers—to build production-ready, AI-enhanced internal apps without starting from scratch or learning to deploy on Netlify.

Unlike other vibe coding tools focused on prototyping, Vybe is built for rollout: it bridges the gap between ease-of-use and enterprise-readiness.

Why Aren’t Current Vibe Coding Platforms Enough?

"Vibe coding"—a new term for lightweight, creative, and AI-powered app building—has exploded in popularity. Companies like Google, Canva, Figma, and Replit have launched their own platforms aimed at democratizing code. These tools are fantastic for prototyping, but as the Vybe team points out, they fall short for internal enterprise use.

Here’s why:

Data integrations are fragile. Connecting Salesforce, Jira, or Gmail often requires rebuilding authentication, pagination, and rate-limiting logic—something most non-devs can’t do.
SSO is absent. Prototyping tools don’t offer robust identity management, leading to multiple login headaches when scaling.
Security is shaky. AI-generated apps built by non-developers often lack access controls or data validation, posing real risks.

Vybe addresses all of these pain points by baking in enterprise-readiness from the start.

How Does Vybe Compare to No-Code and Low-Code Tools?

Platforms like Airtable, Retool, and Coda proved that you can move faster than React when building dashboards. But even the best of these tools are starting to feel dated. Why?

Because users are still:

Dragging and dropping UI blocks
Copy-pasting SQL snippets
Rebuilding the same CRUD apps repeatedly

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), the bar has been raised. Developers (and now even non-developers) expect AI to write real, deployable code from a chat interface. Vybe embraces this shift by combining the intuitive interface of no-code with the depth and flexibility of modern AI tools.

Why drag boxes to connect Salesforce to an approval form when you can describe it in plain English and let AI build it for you?

Why Is Now the Right Time for Vybe?

The timing is key. In 2025, most fast-growing companies are drowning in glue work—tasks that fill the gaps between SaaS tools but aren’t well supported by them. These often fall to overworked engineers or underpowered spreadsheets. Neither is scalable or sustainable.

At the same time, large language models and AI copilots have become mainstream, making code generation, summarization, and search dramatically more powerful. This means non-technical users are closer than ever to being able to build real, scalable apps—if they have the right platform.

Vybe combines this momentum with deep product and engineering experience, plus a proven track record of shipping successful SaaS businesses. It’s a bet that companies are ready to stop duct-taping tools together and start building delightful internal apps, fast.

What Kind of Internal Tools Can You Build with Vybe?

The Vybe founders have already built several internal tools to run Vybe itself. These include:

Onboarding trackers for new hires
Launch calendars for product updates
Status bots that report on deployment health
Meeting recap tools that auto-summarize Zoom calls
Internal wikis and dashboards that pull live data from internal APIs

The point is not just that you can build these tools—it’s that anyone in the company can. HR, operations, support, even marketing—users who traditionally had to wait on engineering now have the power to build what they need.

What Does the Future Look Like for Vybe?

Vybe is still in its early days, but the potential is massive. The market for internal tooling is huge and mostly unaddressed by mainstream SaaS. If Vybe succeeds in making internal apps both lovable and enterprise-ready, it could become the go-to platform for modern operations.

In a world where every team is trying to move faster without breaking things, Vybe offers something refreshing: a way to empower everyone to build, iterate, and launch—with guardrails, integrations, and AI doing the heavy lifting.

Final Thoughts: Is Vybe the Future of Internal Software?

Vybe isn’t trying to replace your engineers—it’s trying to give them back their time. By empowering teams to build the apps they need, when they need them, Vybe promises to reduce bottlenecks, improve data hygiene, and eliminate the glue code trap that so many companies fall into.

And it does all of this in a way that feels more fun than frustrating—a vibe that just might catch on.