How 700K People Found Us

We just crossed 700,000 monthly active users and 2 million projects on the platform. We have never run an ad. Never paid for a download. Never bought a sponsored post. Every person who found YouWare found us because someone else shared a project, sent a link, or told a friend.

How Our Story Started

In March 2025, people on X were sharing screen recordings of games and apps they had built with AI. The creations were impressive, but they were just videos. You could watch them. But you could not play them, click them, or remix them.

It was like the early 2000s, when someone would email you a link to a photo album instead of just letting you see the actual photos. Then Instagram came along and asked: why can’t you just share them right now?

That is what our founder, Leon, wanted for code.

Leon stayed up that night and built the first version of YouWare. A basic tool that let you paste your code and turn it into a live, shareable site. By 2 AM it was online. He posted a tweet about it and by the next morning, over 1,000 projects had been uploaded. Within 24 hours that tripled to 3,000. By the 48 hour mark, YouWare had passed 1 million visits.

Nobody planned for that. People just needed a place to share what they were building with AI. We gave them one. We spent the months after that building, not marketing. We shipped features, rebuilt our backend from scratch, and launched a mobile app. We figured if CapCut could redefine mobile video editing, we could take a real shot at mobile coding. Along the way, creators in Japan started organizing events and Discord communities on their own. Nobody on our team asked them to. They just liked the product.

That pattern repeated everywhere. Someone would build a project, share it, and their friends would sign up. No funnel. No campaign. Just people showing each other what they made.

Who’s Actually Building

Here is what 700,000 actually looks like when you zoom in.

A community mental health worker in the US saw a flyer from a local roofing company and offered to build them a website. That was her first attempt at web creation as a side business. A 70 year old public affairs trainer in northern England built a weather dashboard so her neighbors could check forecasts and emergency alerts. A physiotherapist in Brazil created a patient management tool to run his clinic. A lawyer built a local lifestyle guide and started exploring ad revenue. A retired IT worker made an avatar generator and promoted it on LinkedIn. None of them are professional developers. Most had never written a line of code.

But this is what vibe coding makes possible. Not because the AI is impressive. Because the people who use it are. We did not recruit these users. We did not target their demographics or run lookalike audiences. They found YouWare, built something they were proud of, and told someone about it. That is the only growth loop we have ever had.

Thank You

To every person who uploaded a project, shared a link, remixed someone else’s work, or told a friend about YouWare: you built this. Not our investors. Not our pitch deck. Not a marketing budget we never had. You. We are going to keep building for you.