a woman vibe-coded her own YouTube app for her kids

Written By Tia Rene Kelly

Today we're talking about tech: vibe coding, the SaaS is dead bullshit, and agents getting hacked.

The Woman Using Five OpenClaw Agents to Solve Her Everyday Problems

Jesse Garet spoke with Claire Vo of “How I AI” about how she’s using AI as homeschooling parent of four. She digitizes curriculum from photos to turn books into lesson plans and custom teaching materials, then catalogs every educational toy and supply in her home so her AI can suggest physical items during lesson planning.

Jesse wanted a safe, controlled TV experience for her children without the usual recommendations of YouTube and AI slop videos giving misinformation. Working with a coding AI agent, she described features she desired and had the agent generate code. Jesse had no prior coding experience. The result was a custom app called Mira that pulls from selected YouTube channels and presents a minimal, kid-friendly interface: simple play controls, no comments, and no suggestions. She deployed this to their TV using Google TV streaming.

Suddenly I feel behind on technology??

Check out the full video to learn how she’s layering other agents in her day to day.

True Life: I’m a SaaS nerd

I read through 12 earnings call transcripts (without AI) for SaaS companies. Here are some of the quotes I pulled via Investing.com:

  • PubMatic: “You know, vibe-coded software, is not gonna be tuned for high volume of transactions, for high concurrency, for low latency, for, you know, efficient memory consumption, efficient storage.”

  • DoubleVerify: “In the AI era, the question isn’t about who has the best model, it’s about who has the best data.”

  • Workday: “In Q4, we generated over $100 million in new ACV from emerging AI products, which he said was up more than 100% year‑over‑year. Overall ARR from these emerging AI solutions reached over $400 million.”

  • Backblaze: “We have seen a growth rate of 75% in the number of those AI customers, but one of the things that I, I find even more exciting is that the growth rate of those customers is about 3 times faster than the growth rate of our average customer.”

  • Bill: “In the first half, our (AI-powered) system stopped 5.3 million fraudulent attempts and reduced manual fraud reviews by 40%.”

  • ZoomInfo: “Customers are using our data to power AI agents, build audiences programmatically, and run end-to-end campaigns that didn’t exist two years ago.”

This tells us a couple things I want to point out.

Enterprise customers are interested in AI/agents, but more importantly, they’re interested in AI/agents within platforms where the data already lives. Agents rely on data to function, so the agents either live within the system or are sitting on top of it — similarly to Jesse using an agent for pre-existing content.

Hubspot shared 20% year-over-year revenue growth, after a pivot to an "agentic customer platform." Hubspot already owns the CRM layer, so “service-as-software” (the automation of human workflows) is selling automated workflows and outcomes — also why seat pricing makes less sense in this case. Plus Hubspot had $2B+ in revenue and a decade of workflow data to support this transition. It’s already been established that SaaS isn’t dead, but I also want to add that investors are still actively investing in SaaS companies and the upside to this is that more people can compete.

Are agents easy to hack?

A major bug in OpenClaw allowed any website you visited to open a hidden connection to the agent running on your computer via a local WebSocket. Because the system assumed localhost traffic was safe and had weak authentication, compromised JavaScript on a webpage could brute-force the password and take control of the agent. And once hijacked, hackers can read logs, steal API keys, or run commands through the agent. There’s a huge attack surface, which means this will become a focus for hackers.

I’m pretty knowledgeable about cybersecurity and the losses associated with it for SMBs because of my work experience. This isn’t cybersecurity advice but if I were using agents regularly, I’d isolate them from sensitive systems.

Talk soon,

TRK

Tia Rene Kelly