Pour tokens. Watch Maude cook.
More tokens, better app — but Maude runs on a 5-hour window and a weekly cap, because someone decided that was a reasonable way to price intelligence. Budget like your rent depends on it. It does. It's due on the 28th.
VIBE CODER TYCOON
your unpaid cofounder is waiting.
$4.99 · iOS + macOS · no ads · no in-app purchases · one duck on a shelf
meet maude
She bills by the token. The judgment is free.
Maude is your AI cofounder: savage, dry, terminally online, and running on suspiciously familiar usage limits — a 5-hour window and a weekly cap. Actual in-game commentary:
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"New founder detected. Adorable. Let's ship something before the money runs out."
— maude, day one -
"Zero. The App Store equivalent of a group chat leaving you on read."
— maude, on your launch numbers -
"Removed by mods in four minutes. A personal best, honestly."
— maude, on your marketing strategy -
"This is genuinely elite. I'm proud. I'll deny saying that. Screenshot it fast."
— maude, once, allegedly -
"Broke. Not 'broke into the industry' broke. The regular kind. The sad kind."
— maude, delivering your eulogy
the game
A fully simulated indie dev economy. Unfortunately.
Tokens, buzz, bugs, backlash, billing. Everything you'd quit your job for, in pixel form, for five dollars.
The reviews are personal.
Every midnight: downloads, revenue, bug reports, and one-star reviews from users named certified_h8r. Fix the bugs with tokens or ignore them — your rating remembers either way.
Promote irresponsibly.
Spam subreddits for free, roast included. Post through it on X. Do LinkedIn thought-leadership without irony. Buy a Times Square billboard for one hour. Every channel rolls flop, mid, or viral.
VIBEKEA: flat-pack, flat-out disrespect.
Ten desks from SNUBBÖRD to DYRGRÖP. Five Macs. Twenty-four desk treasures including the VUNKO™ figurine line. Wall paint named GOTH GIRLFRIEND and DELULU PINK. Assembly not required, judgment included.
Sustained Vibe or eulogy.
Earn back every dollar you've burned, hold four profitable weeks in a row, and hit SUSTAINED VIBE. Or run out of runway and get Maude's eulogy read over your startup's still-warm corpse. Both are canon.
$4.99. No ads. No IAP. No, really.
We considered selling you tokens for real money, and then the game's entire premise stared back at us. One purchase, both platforms, zero dark patterns. The only microtransactions are the fictional ones ruining your fictional life.
receipts
It looks like this. It feels like a margin call.
← swipe, drag, or focus it and use arrow keys for more financial anxiety →
questions
FAQ
Frequently anticipated questions. Maude wrote answers before anyone asked. She said it was "efficient."
How much does it cost?
$4.99, one time. That is the entire business model: you give us five dollars, the game happens, nobody upsells you a battle pass. It's a universal purchase, so paying once covers both iPhone/iPad and Mac.
What platforms does it run on?
iOS 17 or later and macOS 14 or later. Same game, same save-crushing rent day, whichever screen you prefer to be stressed on.
Are there ads or in-app purchases?
No and no. The game is literally a satire of usage-based AI billing — selling you real tokens for real money would have collapsed the whole thing into a black hole of irony. Your fictional startup has microtransaction anxiety so you don't have to.
Is Maude ok?
Maude is fine. Maude has never been better. Maude bills by the token, sleeps never, and keeps a pre-written eulogy for your startup "just in case." Your concern has been noted, deemed unnecessary, and mildly resented.
When can I play it?
It's out now on both iOS and macOS — grab it from the badges above!