Half a year ago, I stumbled upon a cool little tool called v0 by Vercel. I played around with it a bit and thought “Hey, this is neat”. I gave it few easy tasks and skeptic as I am it created couple of nice React components but nothing worth considering me to go and deploy a production ready app with it, so I moved on. Fast forward to today — I gave it another shot, and wow… I’m amazed.
This time, I used v0 to build and launch a real app: rentaboat.net. From idea to live site, it took me around 2-3 hours. The best part? I didn’t write a single line of code.
Let me say that again for the developers in the back:
No. Code. At. All. Couple of times I turned back to my wife and said: I can not believe this thing understands what I want and produces code very near to what I had in my mind.
So, What’s the Magic?
v0 is basically your AI-powered front-end team. You just describe what you want — like “a clean landing page for a rental service with a booking form” — and v0 returns real, production-ready code using Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS. OK it does require couple of steps but it does amazing job. So what I did was following:
1. Use AI to write a clear prompt
Open ChatGpt.com and use it to help you write down the prompt for Vercel. I personally wrote down following couple of words into chatGPT:
2. Copy prompt & paste into Vercel
Chat GPT gave me a pretty clear structure on how to make V0 write the app. Next you basically copy and paste that into V0 Prompt and watch the magic happen.
It doesn’t give you templates or drag-and-drop blocks. It gives you code. But here’s the fun part: you don’t need to touch it. If something is not as desired you just write it down in the prompt as specific as possible, or use the select tool to select a specific element on the site, and then in this context “order” the changes.
As someone who’s has been in the game for more than a decade and needs to develop fast, becoming more of a product manager/idea person is the way to go and this tool is simply is a game-changer. I realized all I had to do was:
- Describe what I wanted.
- Let v0 generate the app.
- Click “Deploy.”
That’s it. No IDE, no terminal, no Git headaches. Just push and ship.
From Idea to Reality within hours not weeks — Like a Black Box
What blew me away most is how v0 feels like a black box for turning ideas into reality. You throw in your concept, and out comes a sleek, modern web app — complete with responsive design, clean UI, and proper codebase structure.
It’s like having a startup-grade dev team on standby, minus the meetings and Slack pings and writing down the stories and jira tasks. With V0 you can even be a bad Product Owner and write very bad and unclear requirements and this machine will still understand what you need. It is just amazing.
Check out the app I did within 3 hours as a beginner Vibe Coder and Senior Old-School-Developer.
My Takeaway?
Although the App is just written in Frontend and there is no CMS behind this app to change, edify or extend the content, but I am amazed by the end product and v0 has shifted my mindset completely. I don’t have to “code by hand” to build an app anymore. I just have to think clearly, describe well, and let Vercel’s AI do the heavy lifting. It turns ideas into real world products and developers into product managers.
