About Tony K.

I’m the founder of VibeUsers. I build tools for indie makers and vibe coders who have shipped a product and need to find real users — without a marketing budget or a growth team.

VibeUsers came out of my own experience with StreamHero.ai. I was spending an hour every day manually checking Reddit threads looking for conversations where my product was relevant. I built VibeUsers to do that searching automatically — so I could spend the time actually replying to people instead of hunting for the right threads.

On day two of using the system I’d built, I had my first real Reddit conversations with people struggling with streaming growth and got my first two paying users. They invited friends. That loop is what the tool is designed to create.

Before VibeUsers, I spent about ten years building products across community platforms, mobile apps, and B2C and UGC services. The through-line was always the same problem: how do you get the first real users for something nobody has heard of yet? Community products especially — the chicken-and-egg problem hits on day one. That tension taught me more about early distribution than anything else.

VibeUsers is the tool I wish I’d had for all of those earlier products. I’m genuinely obsessed with this problem — not because there’s obvious money in it, but because the founders who need it most are the ones least equipped to solve it. If you’re building something and thinking about the same questions, I’d be glad to connect. Reach me at anthony@vibeusers.io.

A lot of my best thinking happens on long drives. Road trips have a way of clearing the noise — no notifications, no pull requests, just the problem and enough time to actually think it through. Most of the product decisions I’m proud of started somewhere on a highway.

I write about distribution for solo builders on the VibeUsers blog.