Leaning into "The link-in-bio of vibe coding"
I'm aggressively 'building in public' since launch two days ago. Lots of X and Reddit posting (where I can) but mainly just in the direction of updating on my own work and progress.
So far? 0 users, a few visits, little exposure.
Honestly, I just don't have following and that -- combined with the hook being a bit novel in the early days of the vibe coding explosion -- makes it hard to get word out.
But one thing did seem to work yesterday. 💡
I replied to an X post by Ben Tossell of Ben's Bites (bit AI newsletter) where he asked people to share their AI projects. It went well, got a good amount of views and votes and even some big new followers. This felt good.
But more importantly -- it pointed out a POV on Mids.ai that I want to keep following. The positioning as the "Portfolio for listing your projects in a world where everybody is building lots of things all the time" seemed to click a bit.
So today, I worked on overhauling the user profiles / portfolios on Mids.ai to be more oriented to sharing and standalone use.
Users can now show their profile (just as they already could with project pages) WITHOUT the mids.ai branding around it, simply by adding '/0' to the end of the profile URL. This basically makes link-tree / link-in-bio style pages for showing off project links
I intend next to let users add projects to their portfolio even if they aren't listed in mids.ai directly. This way, people can link to existing URLs of projects without having to make the Mids.ai page (even though it only takes a few seconds to do that!)
I still intend eventually to let people sell services / connect with buyers in mids / and even directly monetize their projects (if things get traction over time)
Sticking to my core vision of the future with Mids
I firmly believe that software projects / apps / 'vibe code' / etc. will become a more and more ephemeral, quickly changing space where people will need a place to put all of their work and for others to find it -- and that work wont always be living in fully-fledged websites with domains, social profiles, etc supporting the project.
The jury's out, but I'm building for that world.
mids.ai
