Now Ship It: A Founders’ Breakfast on Scaling Vibecoded Products
You built it with vibes. Now what?
Join us for a candid breakfast roundtable for 20 revenue-stage vibecoder founders navigating the messy leap from working prototype to scaled production.
Hear from three lead/principal engineers and CTOs who’ve shipped and scaled real products who'll share the hard truths: where vibecoded apps break, what technical debt actually costs you, and how non-technical founders can make smart infrastructure decisions without learning to code.
This isn’t a pitch session. It’s a small-room, off-the-record conversation over coffee and food, the kind of advice you’d want from a technical co-founder you trust.
Agenda
10am: Registration
10:15am: Keynote
10:35am: 4 Breakout Circle with CTOs
11:25am: Networking
12pm: End
Keynote Speaker
Liyana Sulaiman is the Co-founder and CPTO of Pollen, a controlled recovery platform for excess inventory that uses AI to help brands recover more value instead of writing it off.
Li has spent over a decade building and scaling software products across Asia, including co-founding and exiting Gimmie, a VC-backed B2B digital loyalty and gamification platform. Today, she leads product and technology at Pollen, where her work spans AI systems, enterprise workflows, platform and marketplace infrastructure, and operational decision-making.
She brings a practical founder-operator perspective on the messy middle between AI-built MVPs and production-grade software — and on how teams can turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, scalable business systems.
What to expect:
Honest takes on where AI-built code holds up and where it falls apart at scale
The product and infrastructure decisions that matter before your MVP becomes business-critical
How to identify whether your prototype has product-grade foundations or hidden architectural debt
What founders should know before hiring, outsourcing, or relying heavily on AI coding tools
Q&A with CTOs who’ve seen the failure modes firsthand
What happens next:
An optional paid PRD Drafting Workshop hosted by JDI, a hands-on session to help you translate your product vision into a structured spec that engineers (and AI tools) can actually build from.
🤝 About the Organisers
🏢 JDI Group
JDI Group is a Venture Catalyst driving forward the future of innovation. Since 2016, we’ve jump-started the exponential growth of innovative companies – from FinTech and e-commerce to education and enterprise technology. We empower startups and enterprises with strategic knowledge and resources to scale disruptive innovation from Asia to the world.
🤝 About the Community Partners
🏢 Lorong AI
Lorong AI brings together government, industry, and research to build Singapore's AI ecosystem. A collaborative hub for AI practitioners connect, innovate, and shape the future of AI in Singapore throughout curated programs and a supportive community.
🏢 Techies
We are a 3rd space for devs, dev adjacent and people who want to get deep into technical conversations
🏢 Potluck Technologies
Potluck Technologies is a fractional CTO and CPO firm that embeds with early-stage and mission-driven startups. We are former Google engineering and product leaders - Sha-Mayn Teh led engineering teams at Google Translate, Google Beijing, AdWords, and ed-tech marketplace TeachersPayTeachers; Yu Chen led product across Google Search, Maps, and Internet Connectivity, and two coding bootcamps. We work inside teams, not as outside advisors. The goal of every engagement is to make ourselves unnecessary.