Got a LinkedIn automation warning last December. After using one of the mainstream tools, my account got flagged. Instead of hunting for a safer alternative, I decided to build my own. Had a friend who built his PR company's site with vibe coding, so I figured how hard could it be?
Turns out, very hard.
The landing page and basic content were straightforward. But building a genuinely safer automation tool required a web dashboard that talks to a backend, which then controls a browser instance for LinkedIn. Complex stuff.
My coding experience was a WordPress travel blog from 2012. I could barely copy-paste HTML without breaking something. But Claude kept hyping me up, so I registered a company before even starting the dashboard. Legal pressure would force me to ship.
And it did. From January, whilst working full-time in sales, I started building the architecture. Used Claude, Vercel, and Claude Code. Many 12-hour days later, I had something workable.
- Tested it on my own sales job for months. Made sure it didn't trigger LinkedIn.
- Launched 1 April. Quit my corporate job the same week.
- First month: $2k in revenue from lifetime access deals.
- Currently 200 signups, mostly free trials.
The real challenge is sustaining momentum. The tool works well, but the market is crowded. Hard to tell how much users actually care about safety when they just want to blast messages.
Either way, it's revenue-generating, no engineering background required. Dogfood it for my own outreach too. Hope this shows what's possible with some grit and AI-assisted coding.
