Vibe Coders SA

</> A South African community for building with AI

Build with AI.
Build it together.

Vibe Coders South Africa is a welcoming home for anyone making software with AI — from your very first prompt to a shipped product. Show what you’re building, compare tools and models, ask for honest feedback and find people to build with.

Join the community Explore what we’re building

The group lives on Facebook. Every level of experience is welcome.

Illustration of four friends laughing and building on laptops at an evening table, with Table Mountain and city lights behind them.

01 Who it’s for

Whoever you are, there’s a seat at the table.

Vibe coding is new for almost everyone. That’s the point — we’re working it out together, in the open.

  • Beginners

    Never written code? Describe what you want, see what the AI makes, and ask the questions you’d feel silly asking anywhere else.

  • Engineers

    Seasoned developers bringing AI into real workflows — sharing what speeds you up, what breaks, and where judgement still matters.

  • Students

    Software engineering and computer science students learning how AI tools fit alongside the fundamentals.

  • Makers

    Building hobby projects, client work or a commercial app? Bring it here to test ideas, find help and get it shipped.

02 What we share

Four things to bring to the group.

Keep it practical and generous. Post the messy middle as well as the finished thing.

  1. Show your build

    Screenshots, demos, links, half-finished experiments. Share what you’re making and get useful, kind feedback from people who get it.

  2. Tools and models

    Which editor, agent or LLM is working for you right now — and for what? Compare notes on prompts, costs, limits and workflows.

  3. Learn together

    Ask beginner questions without apology. Swap tutorials, explain what you figured out, and help the next person get unstuck.

  4. Collaboration

    Looking for a co-builder, a tester, a designer or a second pair of eyes? Find people across the country to build with.

03 Start here

Two questions to open with.

New to the group? Pick one, answer it in a post, and say hello.

What are you building?

Big or small, finished or not — tell us what it is and what you used.

What are you doing with vibe coding?

Work, study, side projects, curiosity — every answer helps someone else.

04 Join in

Pull up a chair.

  1. 1 Join the Facebook group.
  2. 2 Introduce yourself and what you’re curious about.
  3. 3 Share a build, a question or a tool you love.
Join the community on Facebook

05 Contact

Collaborations and advertising.

Want to run a workshop, partner on an event, collaborate with the community, or talk about advertising to the group? Email Mark with a little about what you have in mind and he’ll get back to you.

mark@webfootprint.co.za

For questions about building, post in the group so everyone can learn from the answers.