Dotafury.gg - Dota 2 Game Performance and Statistics

From UX Designer to Builder: How AI Helped Me Finally Ship My Own Platform I recently built https://dotafury.gg — a Dota 2 analytics platform. But this post isn’t about the product. It’s about something more important: How a UX designer with limited dev control finally started building real systems using AI. ⚠️ The Problem I Always Had For years, I lived in this gap: I could design systems I could imagine flows I could see product opportunities But I couldn’t fully build them. Everything depended on: developers timelines priorities And a lot of ideas never made it past Figma. 🤖 Then Came AI (And “Vibe Coding”) At first, it felt like magic. I could say: build this page create this component connect this logic …and it actually worked. For the first time, I wasn’t just designing. I was building. 💣 Reality Check: Vibe Coding Breaks Fast Very quickly, things got messy: duplicated logic unclear structure random patterns fragile code That’s when I learned: Working code ≠ a working system AI w