About
Hi, I'm Paul.
I build AI-native sites and ship products with the tools I write about.
Vibetoolstack is what I publish when I'm not building. Real reviews from real builds — across the stack I run for several AI-driven online projects, from small marketing sites to content-scaled media winning their niches.
Why VTS
AI-native builders don't have a serious tool publisher. The aggregators are bland. The niche blogs sell courses. The tools self-publish and lie. VTS is the gap.
For years I've been shipping AI-stack-driven online projects — small marketing sites, content-scaled media properties dominating their niches, AI-native MVPs, and productized internal tooling. The same stack you'll read about here is the one I actually run in production.
Along the way I tested every AI builder tool, every newsletter platform, every site builder, every cold-email stack — because I needed to ship without a co-founder, without a team, and without burning months on tooling decisions.
Vibetoolstack is the publication I wish existed when I was starting out. Honest. Dated. Maintained. Opinionated. Free of course-funnels and affiliate-bait.
If a stack works, it gets a framework page. If a tool ships better than its rivals, it gets the win. If something stops working, it gets retired — not buried under SEO graveyard listicles.
Track record
Several AI-stack-driven online projects.
From small marketing sites to content-scaled media winning their niches. Every review on VTS comes from tools I've actually shipped with — across the categories below.
Niche-winning publications running programmatic SEO at scale — hundreds of reviews, thousands of articles, deployed on Astro + Sanity + Cloudflare.
From idea to live in weeks. Marketplace prototypes, founder-tools, build-in-public side projects — the same stack VTS writes about.
Internal tooling turned client product: agentic SEO workflows, content engines, and stack templates that paid customers actually use.
How VTS works
Four editorial principles.
No exceptions.
Tested before reviewed.
Every tool I cover I've actually used to ship something. Reviews are dated, dated again when re-tested, and retired when they're no longer accurate.
Honest about commission.
I disclose affiliate relationships on every page that has them. Recommendations don't change based on commission rate — and I tell you which tools have no affiliate at all.
No AI-slop.
No generic listicles. No regurgitated specs. No "here are 27 newsletter platforms" filler. Every page commits to a verdict and shows how I got there.
Stacks over lists.
Tool rankings in isolation are useless. The real question is what works together. Stacks are bets — and they get updated when better setups ship.