From jQuery to Vibe Coding: 15 Years in IT and My First App

I've been in IT since 2009.

I started as a part-time computer lab administrator while at university. Then I read a book about HTML and CSS. Two weeks later, I was working on my first paid project.

That's how my 15-year journey at the same IT company began.

Then came JavaScript. jQuery was my first love. We built hundreds of carousels, date pickers, and form validators. Good times.

Then Angular arrived. Suddenly, I wasn't just building forms anymore. I was thinking about architecture. That was exciting.

Eventually, I moved from development into management and stopped writing code. Turns out, working with people can be even more interesting than working with computers.

Then AI happened

Everyone is vibe coding. Someone who has never written a line of code can now build an app for finding mushrooms in the forest.

And vibe coding is addictive. Like smoking, except instead of cigarette breaks, you take breaks to ship another feature.

I got hooked too.

I still have a good position at a large IT company. But in the evenings, I'm building my own product.

It's called BRAP, a motorcycle app I'm building to solve problems I face as a rider: finding people to ride with, tracking trips, and discovering local motorcycle events.

I'm a rider myself, so I'm building something that solves problems I actually experience.

I don't want to ask strangers whether they need another finance assistant or habit tracker.

I want to solve real problems for real people.

One question worth asking

If you're building an app, ask yourself one simple question:

What problem am I actually solving?

Keep asking it. Especially when AI makes building things easier than ever.

Peace to everyone! ✌️

My motorcycle app: BRAP — Motorcycle Community