Craig, when you started this process, you had a set of objectives to solve. What things outside those objectives were you most surprised by?
ASKED BY · Mark Giuliani · WASHINGTON, D.C. · 20 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:46:41
Craig's original objective was escaping painful Google Sheets coordination; he was surprised by the concept of "vibe coding" and how it enables thinking long-term about user needs rather than implementation mechanics, opening up possibilities like product catalogs and checklists.
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46:41Literally, the objective I had is, how the heck do we get off of Google Sheets for these signups? Because they're killing us. Josh will agree with that. It was painful. It was painful to watch. It was painful to ask people to do something that was really clunky. And I wish I had done it a year earlier. Actually, I probably would have been doing a lot more code a year earlier, but I certainly
47:08could have done it six months earlier. As far as the vibe is actually, I didn't really care for the term in the beginning when it was coined because it seemed too woo-woo. But after doing apps like Showhub and others, there is a sort of vibe to it of, all right, I need a feature. And you're thinking a little bit more long-term. You're not caught up in the mechanics, a lot of software engineering.
47:39You're thinking about data structures and all that. And with vibe coding, you're really a level above that. And it's there to think about, but you're really thinking more long. like where are people's needs? Where could this go? And you're playing around with that. And so a lot of the other things like doing the checklists, doing a product catalog where people can say, here's the gear that I have and share that. A lot of those sort of things are going
48:08to be fun to explore. Let's go to our next question. This one's from Josh Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Craig, could you demo the post-show viewing experience in Showhub, showing how the dashboard and jumping to individual questions help viewers explore a past episode? Yeah, I wasn't even aware that it did this. This is how bad I am and why I needed this show tonight.
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