I am VibePapa. I am 60 years old, and I am raising a three-year-old daughter. I live between a small farm next to the Boseong River in rural Korea and a city.

I have no coding background. For most of my life, words like server or hosting were for younger experts. But I have a small NAS at home. Thanks to AI that I can simply talk to, I started making apps that my family actually needs. These include apps for worship, parenting, and learning. I run all these apps from a quiet box in my home, with no monthly server costs.

To be honest about the word free: running a server costs nothing, but it is not literally ‘0 won’. My only ongoing cost is a domain name. (A small electricity bill is separate.) What truly costs zero dollars is having no rented servers or hosting subscriptions.

What You’ll Find on This Blog

This blog is an honest, weekly record of that journey. These are real apps for real life, made by a beginner with AI. They get a little better every day because we actually use them.

  • The apps I make for my family have no ads and no algorithms
  • There are no rented servers — everything runs on a home NAS
  • There is no pretense — I share mistakes as much as successes

How It All Started

My wife and daughter washing wild greens at Daeheung Spring, a natural spring I built on our farm by the Boseong River (faces blurred for privacy) The real Daeheung Spring I built on our farm — my wife and daughter are rinsing wild greens we picked. (Faces blurred for privacy.)

It all started with my mother. She dreamed of this farm. Her wishes made it real. At the heart of the farm, pure natural spring water flows. Visitors call it ‘a million-dollar spring’. But this farm is more than just land. It is where my family gathers. When my sister and brother and I gather here, our talks always turn to the future. My brother is an IT/AI expert. From him, I get new sparks of technology. Listening to my brother’s stories by the quiet river, I found the courage to dive into Vibe Coding. This farm is my refuge. My family is my tech hub.

Long before I made any apps, I built my own spring. At Daeheung Farm, I followed the water flow to its source. I dug channels and set marble basins around it. Then I sealed the bottom and walls, cement bag by cement bag, with my own hands. That is how I created Daeheung Spring. Today, my wife and daughter rinse the wild greens we picked in that very water. With the same hands that finished that spring, I now build apps my family uses every day. Stone, water, and code: all these things are made at home, for the people I love.

An illustrated version of the same scene at Daeheung Spring The same moment, as I want to remember it.

You can find that story here: daeheung.boseonggang.com — Daeheung Farm, and the legacy behind the person writing this.

Everything I create starts at Daeheung — and flows out into the world, like the Boseong River.