Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends.

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Wabi, founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kyuda, raised $20M in pre-seed funding to build a social platform where users can create and share mini apps through natural language prompts without coding. The platform handles technical infrastructure automatically, including UI design, databases, and icon creation, while allowing users to choose AI models like ChatGPT or Gemini. Wabi recently added social features like liking, commenting, and remixing apps, positioning itself in the growing vibe coding market alongside tools like Cursor and Replit. The startup plans to avoid ads and focus on building network effects before implementing monetization.

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’