Why I Founded YouWare
I still remember October 2024, when I looked into the future of AI coding — it felt exactly like when Instagram first empowered everyday people to share photos straight from their phones.
In that moment, I realized a new kind of creative revolution was coming to the world of coding with AI.
The AI era isn't just about automation or efficiency. It's about giving ordinary people the power to build apps and websites as effortlessly as taking photos.
Some people say AI will destroy everything. I disagree.
AI is a tool, and we've always used tools to create. What matters most is the human creativity behind the tool.
That's why YouWare exists.
How Everything Started
I'll never forget the moment the idea for YouWare clicked. Late one night in March 2025, I was scrolling through X watching people share screen recordings of AI-generated games and apps they'd built with Grok. But they were just videos. You couldn't click, play, or remix these creations.
It felt like the early 2000s, when people would email you a photo album link instead of just sharing actual photos. Then Instagram emerged and asked, "Why can't you just share your photos, right now?"
That's what I wanted for code—the problem I needed to solve.
I stayed up that night and built the first version of YouWare—a place for coders to host their creations—so others could interact with them. By 2 AM it was live, and within 48 hours, we went from 1,000 visits to over a million.
That night, I called it YourWare—because it felt like something personal, something that belonged to the creator, something that was yours.
Later, a VC in the US suggested we change it to YouWare. It might seem insignificant, but the subtle difference made sense. This platform was never about ownership, it was about empowerment—about what you could build.
Fast-forward to today, and we've built YouWare into both a coding agent and a community platform to support over 500,000 vibe coders as they share apps, websites, tools, dashboards, and more.
