Our Chief AI Officer, Kyle Myck, tested vibe coding with Replit by building a World Cup prediction app and a utilization tracker with AI agents doing most of the work. These apps didn't stay demos. The utilization tracker is actively being used to manage Dura Digital resourcing, and the World Cup app is running a competition across our North America and Latin America teams. This app has even spread beyond Dura Digital, with colleagues running their own groups for family and friends in Canada, Colombia, and Mexico City.
From One Prompt to a Working App
Kyle wrote a simple prompt describing the app, sharpened it with Perplexity, then handed it to Replit. The agents asked clarifying questions about integrations rather than guessing, built an initial version, and proposed follow-up features such as match notifications and live score data. From there, it was a matter of approving the next build and letting the agents keep going.
Kyle ran a second test by building a utilization tracker for Dura Digital to track employee capacity. He initially asked Replit to build one thing: a grid to sort utilization data. Replit built that plus a dashboard, a trends view, and light and dark modes on its own. When the app needed an accessibility fix, a single prompt to audit color contrast resolved it in 11 minutes for $3.18. The entire tracker cost under $25 to build.
For prototypes and internal tools, Replit does a solid job with minimal guidance. It won't replace a development team on complex systems, but for these kind of builds, the speed and cost make it worth testing.
The Results
Weeks after the initial build, the World Cup app has a full dashboard: standings, group votes on every match, and a leaderboard spanning the whole company. People across North America and Latin America log in between matches to make predictions, check their rank, and see who called an upset.
What started as a demo is now something people look forward to. Match results become the conversation in Slack, and the leaderboard turns into bragging rights. It's a small thing, but small things like this are what make a distributed team feel as one.
If you're curious what vibe coding could do for your team, reach out, and we'll walk you through it.