From Prediction Market to Vibe Coding Platform

We didn't set out to build a vibe coding platform. Not even close.

TurbineFi started as a prediction market hedging product. The idea was simple — give traders a way to hedge stablecoin depeg risk using prediction markets. We built the orderbook, the matching engine, the whole stack. It worked. We were proud of it.

Then we looked at who was actually using it.

99% Bots

Turns out, almost nobody was manually clicking buttons in our UI. The vast majority of our users were running bots. They'd found our SDK, figured out the API, and built automated strategies that traded around the clock.

That was the first surprise. We'd built a consumer product and accidentally attracted a developer audience.

The Real Problem

Here's what we noticed next: a lot of people wanted to build bots but kept hitting walls. Deployment was confusing. Syntax errors killed momentum. Setting up infrastructure to run a trading bot 24/7 is genuinely hard if you haven't done it before.

And increasingly, the people reaching out weren't traditional developers. They were traders, analysts, hobbyists — people with ideas about what to trade but not necessarily the chops to wrangle Python deployments and API authentication flows.

They wanted to vibe code. Describe a strategy in plain English, get something that works, deploy it, done.

So We Built Studio

Turbine Studio is what came out of that realization. It's an AI-powered environment where you describe a trading strategy in natural language, and we generate, configure, and deploy the bot for you.

No local setup. No dependency hell. No figuring out how to keep a process running on a server somewhere. You tell it what you want, review the code, hit deploy, and it's live.

Locus and Trustless Deployments

One thing we were adamant about: we don't want to manage your trades. That's your money, your strategy, your risk.

We partnered with Locus, a Y Combinator company, to handle the deployment infrastructure. When you deploy a bot through Studio, your wallet signs a payment authorization via the x402 protocol. Locus provisions the infrastructure. Your keys stay with you. We never have custody of your funds.

This was non-negotiable for us. If you're going to trust a platform to run a trading bot on your behalf, the least that platform can do is not hold your money.

What's Next

We're focused on Kalshi right now — it's a great market with real volume and interesting events to trade on. Studio is in beta, and we're iterating fast based on what our early users are telling us.

If you've ever had a trading idea but didn't know how to turn it into code, give Studio a try. That's exactly the problem we built it to solve.