HACKTICK FIELD NOTES
Useful reads for people building with AI.
Clear product thinking, better prompts, and an honest look at where an AI-built product needs more than a polished interface.
PRODUCT PLANNING
Build less, learn sooner.
Constraints, Existing Systems, and Definition of Done: What an AI Coding Agent Needs to Know
The constraints, existing systems, and definition-of-done details an AI coding agent needs before it starts building your product.
The Five Questions That Make a PRD Useful for an AI Coding Agent
Answer these five questions before asking an AI coding agent to build your product, and avoid vague specs and expensive rework.
How to Decide What Belongs in an MVP
Use this simple decision method to answer the MVP-scope question in your PRD and decide what your first version really needs.
How to Define a Critical End-to-End Workflow
Define the one user journey your MVP must complete, so an AI coding agent builds a product instead of a loose set of screens.
How to Write an Agent-Ready PRD
Learn how to write a clear PRD that helps an AI coding agent build the right product, with scope, workflows, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
MVP Scope: What to Include and What to Postpone
A practical framework for deciding what belongs in your MVP, what can wait, and how to stop scope creep before it starts.
What Should the Coding Agent Build?
Learn how to give an AI coding agent a clear product boundary, so it builds a useful first version instead of guessing at your idea.
Who Is the User and What Problem Do They Have?
Define a specific user and a real problem before you build, so your MVP has a clear purpose and a useful first workflow.
PROMPTING
Make the next AI response more useful.
A Simple Prompting Guide: How to Get Better Results From AI
A practical prompting guide with before-and-after examples that helps you get clearer, more useful results from AI.
ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Practical Work
ChatGPT is more useful when you give it the same brief you would give a capable colleague: the job, the context, the audience, the limits, and the format.
Claude Prompting Guide for Practical Work
Claude does not need a clever prompt. It needs a clear job and a way to tell whether the result is good.
The Benefits of Better Prompting
Better prompts lead to clearer AI outputs and less rework. Learn why a few extra details can save time on practical AI tasks.
VIBE-CODE
What is worth building yourself?
Can I Vibe Buffer?
Buffer is a social-media management product with tools for creating, scheduling, publishing, analysing, and engaging across multiple channels.
Can I Vibe Calendly?
Calendly is scheduling software built around shareable booking pages and available time slots.
Can I Vibe Granola?
Granola is an AI notepad for meetings. Its site says it uses computer audio rather than inviting a meeting bot, and works with meeting apps including Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams.
Can I Vibe Notion?
Notion describes itself as an AI workspace with features for capturing information, finding answers, and automating work.
Can I Vibe QuickBooks Online?
QuickBooks Online is accounting software for businesses. A familiar dashboard does not make it a simple product to reproduce.
Can I Vibe Screen Studio?
Screen Studio is a macOS screen recorder and editor built around polished demos: automatic cursor smoothing, zooms, and exports designed for tutorials and social video.
Can I Vibe Tally?
Tally is a no-code online form builder that presents form creation as writing in a document. Its site advertises unlimited forms and submissions on its free offering, subject to fair-use rules.
Can I Vibe Zapier?
Zapier connects apps through triggers and actions. The useful first question is not “can I clone Zapier?” It is “can I automate this one repeated handoff?”