How He Built This Full App Using ONLY 3 prompts | Colin Matthews
Oct 15, 2025 · 46:40
Colin Matthews, a vibe coding instructor, demonstrates how to build full-stack apps, convert Figma designs, and clone live websites using tools like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Magic Patterns, and Alloy, arguing that the real challenge is distribution, not coding. He shows that bolt, Replit, and Lovable all generate similar results using the same underlying LLMs, with differences in UI and cost—Bolt costing about $5 for a virtual fitting room app. For Figma-to-code, Magic Patterns offers better code quality while Figma Make has superior visual fidelity but messy code. Website cloning via Chrome extensions like Alloy takes 5–10 minutes per page but currently lacks multi-page support. Matthews emphasizes that 90% of the work is easy, but the remaining 10% requires debugging skills, and advises aspiring builders to adopt a distribution-first approach—citing his own Wix extension that got 8,000 users with no marketing—rather than just focusing on product.
