@codalioinc
Joined May 2024
Fair, though I'd say it's less about coding knowledge and more about knowing what to ask for. The non-technical folks I've seen succeed were really good at defining requirements and testing what came back.
The only people I've seen getting actual users to use vibe-coded apps are software developers. I haven't seen people without technical knowledge being able to push AI things to production.
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Codalio Inc retweeted
When I started with Cursor, I thought prompting was the skill. Turns out agents need what people need: context, clear requirements, and review. Sharing what we learned in a free live session on Sep 30. You'll build something + get $1k in credits 👇 luma.com/sm7qi4x7
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When I started with Cursor, I thought prompting was the skill. Turns out agents need what people need: context, clear requirements, and review. Sharing what we learned in a free live session on Sep 30. You'll build something + get $1k in credits 👇 luma.com/sm7qi4x7
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Code generation stopped being the bottleneck in 2025. The frontier-agent wave is the industry admitting it out loud. Read more: codalio.substack.com/p/front…
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CIBC just committed $2B to defence and dual-use businesses. The thing that disqualifies most software startups won't be their technology. It'll be that they can't produce written requirements when someone asks. codalio.substack.com/p/cibc-… discord.com/invite/xx4BG2ENy…
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IRAP doesn't fund ideas. It funds technical projects with named risk and a definition of done. Most founders arrive with a product vision instead — and lose the room in 10 minutes. Full breakdown: codalio.substack.com/p/nrc-i… Discord: discord.com/invite/xx4BG2ENy…
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Codalio Inc retweeted
AI can help you code faster. But what if you're building the wrong thing? That's what caught my attention about Codalio. You describe your product idea in plain English. It asks the questions a good product manager would ask, surfaces the gaps you didn't know you had, scores how ready your idea actually is to build, and turns it into a real PRD —features, user flows, architecture, implementation phases. Minutes, not weeks. Then it builds it. Production-grade software, and you own the code. Engineers have a name for working this way: spec-driven development. Write the spec first, then let AI execute against it. It's how good teams avoid shipping three weeks of the wrong feature. What's changed is that you no longer have to be one of those teams to work that way. No engineering background, no technical co-founder, nobody to translate your idea into an architecture. You bring the idea. It handles the part you were about to guess at. Less guessing. Fewer rewrites. More shipping. Try Codalio: 🔗 codalio.com/?via=aryan18&aff…
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Your first prompt is already too late.
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330 startups applied to ALL IN 2026. 100 got in.
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The bar for Canadian pre-seed moved and nobody sent a memo. It's not the deck anymore. It's whether something actually runs.
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A $350M fund just closed in Canada. Your seed bar went up, not down.
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Three Canadian grants close August 31. Most non-technical founders will lose them in the same section: the technical plan.
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What happens on failure
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Every founder at Elevate this September will have a demo on their phone. Almost none will have a sentence.
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SR&ED, IRAP and OCI ask three things: what you built, why it was uncertain, what record exists from the build. Two are a pitch. The third is an audit — the essay lists its five parts. codalio.substack.com/p/why-y…
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Founders think the hard part of non-dilutive funding is finding the programs. It's not. It's the third question: what record did you keep while you built it. That's where claims die. codalio.substack.com/p/why-y…
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The demo shows what a tool produces in ten minutes. It tells you nothing about what you own in ten weeks.
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Founders don't pick the wrong AI app builder. They pick the wrong category.
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You don't own a codebase. You own a receipt for one. Half-built, fully invoiced, unreadable by anyone still on the team. July's release closes that gap. codalio.substack.com/p/your-…
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