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Built by a career CTO who created Vera Studio entirely through dictation
Never opened Figma. Never opened VSCode. Never opened Cursor. This professional development studio was built using the same vibe coding you'll use.
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$340M
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NYSE
IPO
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YC
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JR Wells
Fifteen years as a CTO and product leader. Three startups, one $340M exit, one NYSE IPO, products serving millions of users. Y Combinator W14. Twenty years building software professionally.
And he built Vera Studio entirely through dictation.
Never once opened Figma to design it. Never once opened VSCode to code it. Never once opened Cursor to debug it. Every component, every feature, every line of code — created using AI agents via voice and text.
This isn't theory. This is the meta-proof: a professional development studio built using the same vibe coding approach you'll use. If vibe coding can build the tools FOR vibe coding, it's real.
Curation requires judgment
In a world of 500 AI tools launching every week, you don't need more options. You need someone who's tried them all to pick the right ones.
That requires professional judgment. Not enthusiasm. Not influencer hype. Judgment.
Twenty years, distilled
Vera Studio isn't "everything in one box." It's twenty years of building professional software, distilled into exactly what you need. No more, no less.
The right tools. Not all the tools. Professional-grade infrastructure without the professional-grade complexity.
This is what curation looks like when it comes from someone who knows what good software actually is.
Not a faceless SaaS company
Vera Studio isn't a corporation with a stock photo team page. It's one person's taste, experience, and relentless testing — packaged into tools anyone can use.
Social media is full of people who discovered AI in 2023 and are now making content about building things instead of actually building things.
JR has been shipping software for two decades. He's not making tutorials about vibe coding — he's the one debugging at 2am when the agent breaks something.
When he says "this tool is the one," it's because he's already tried the other fifteen. That's the difference between curation from a builder and curation from a content creator.
In a world of AI slop, trust a person
A polished website used to mean credibility. Now anyone can generate one in 30 seconds. When everything can be faked, the only trust signal that matters is a real person with a real track record.
That's why Vera Studio is JR, and JR is Vera Studio.
Not a faceless SaaS company. Not a "team" of stock photos and AI-generated bios. A real person you can watch build things, make mistakes, and show up every day.
Follow the journey
Watch JR build in public, test every new AI tool, and ship real products — every day.