Founder vibe-coded a freight app in 2 months, rebuilt it in 7 — and won a startup competition
MatthewChang · x · 2026-11-02
Matthew Chang recommends Randall Thomas's entrepreneurship podcast PB & Jax. The quoted tweet introduces the latest guest: Connor Miller spent two months vibe coding a full web app for his freight brokerage, then nuked it entirely — it was rife with security holes and would never hold up for the brokers he wanted to sell to. The rebuilt version took seven months of relentless work and won this year's Jacksonville Venture Competition. The company is FreightScout, featured in the podcast's fourth jax-preneur episode.
A cautionary case study on the gap between AI-rapid prototyping and production-grade engineering: 2 months to build, 7 months to rebuild.
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