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Tianyi Pan
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I open-sourced the portal I built for a client’s vibe-coded apps

The project Ménagerai started off as something I built for a client. It was an SME from a traditional industry (real estate, manufacturing etc) but the founder, a 65+ guy who could easily retire was super into vibe coding and would often have coding marathons into the wee hours.

He then forced his entire leadership team across several countries to take on vibe coding. I was helping them manage deployment but soon I found having to shepherd a dozen different vibe apps, each with distinct, well, vibe. Each had independent logins, different password and user management systems. It was all a mess.

While building a unified user/app portal to manage all this, I had a chat with a CTO from one of my former companies who said they actually recently also built something very alike to manage THEIR internal vibe apps.

So I got to thinking, maybe there are others with similar needs? Hence, I open sourced the project and gave it a name: Menagerai. Like menagerie, a managed collection of your wild vibe-coded apps.

The GitHub repo includes a link to a passwordless, live demo so you can play around. I'd love to get feedback of whether you think this is something useful for other SMEs bitten by the vibe coding bug, or even larger enterprises who encourage their staff to vibe apps.

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