Blessing and curse: what happens when building costs nothing, with Nicolas Grenié

For a while, someone rebuilt Typeform every day. Nicolas Grenié saw it from the inside: he was at Typeform when the first vibe coding tools came out, and people kept announcing they had cloned it in five hours. His take: copying a tool is easy, but turning it into a real business means handling millions of responses, integrations and years of learnings that no prompt gives you.

Nico has spent years in Developer Relations at 3scale (later Red Hat) and Typeform, and he never stops building. In this episode he talks about why cheap creation is a blessing and a curse, his "online graveyard" of side projects, the park finder he built for Barcelona with the city's open data, and how DevRel is changing now that everyone is a builder. Plus: why your API and docs need to be agent-ready, why he doesn't care much about models, building on the bus, and the day his project hit #1 on Hacker News and went down.