Louis from Vibe Kanban - 20,000 GitHub stars and walking away from 6-figure deals

About this episode

Louis Knight-Webb discusses his journey with Vibe Kanban, the challenges of enterprise deals, and insights on AI-generated pull requests.

Louis Knight-Webb is the co-founder of Vibe Kanban, an open-source tool for orchestrating AI coding agents. After years of building for enterprise legacy code, Louis pivoted and saw his new project explode to over 20,000 GitHub stars in just a few months. We talk about the "startup university" of the last five years, why he walked away from 6-figure enterprise deals to find true founder-market fit, and why he thinks most people are wrong about AI-generated pull requests. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: • Vibe Kanban • Louis' Linkedin

People in this episode

Host: Jack Bridger

Guest: Louis Knight-Webb

Topics covered

• open-source tools
• AI coding agents
• startup culture
• enterprise deals
• founder-market fit
• GitHub stars

Keywords

• Vibe Kanban
• AI coding agents
• GitHub stars
• enterprise deals
• founder-market fit
• open-source

Sponsors

WorkOS

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vibe Kanban

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