Vibe Coding: Lessons from the DC Community 🚀

In July 2025, a dating safety app called “Tea” was thrust into the spotlight—unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. With a massive data breach exposing more than 72,000 user-uploaded images, the incident served as a dramatic wake-up call for developers using rapid methods like vibe coding. Let’s dive into what vibe coding means, why it’s capturing the imagination of bootstrapped founders, and the lessons learned from this fiasco! 📉

Vibe coding has been all the rage in Dynamite Circle WhatsApp chats and in-person events.

What Happened to the Tea App? 🤔

Security experts pointed fingers at the lack of engineering diligence due to the app's