Vishal Virani - Rocket.new Founder | The Future Of AI Software Development Belongs to Non-Coders

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.6 • 326 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Vishal Virani is a serial entrepreneur and AI product innovator who co-founded Rocket.new (formerly DhiWise), scaling it to 400,000+ users across 180 countries and $4.5M ARR in just 16 weeks—attracting a $15M seed round from Salesforce Ventures, Accel, and Together Fund. Operating from Surat, India, his vibe-coding platform has generated 500,000+ applications and serves users from Meta, PayPal, KPMG, and PwC. Previously, he won Product Hunt's Golden Kitty Award for Best Developer Tool and built a 40,000+ developer community around DhiWise. ➡️ Show Links https://x.com/Vishalvirani91 https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalvirani/ https://www.rocket.new/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=successstory&utm_campaign=founderstory ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/ ShipStation - https://www.shipstation.com/ (Code: SuccessStory) Square - https://square.com/go/success SurveyMonkey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/scott Monarch Money - https://www.monarchmoney.com (Code: Success) Claude - https://claude.ai/success Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) NetSuite — https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 01:23 – Why Vishal Chose Tech 04:45 – Building in Surat Anyway 12:03 – Pushing Through the Unknown 18:49 – When to Jump Into Entrepreneurship 26:22 – Sponsor Break 29:10 – Consumption vs. Application 32:54 – What Rocket Really Solves 42:26 – The First Demo Obsession 47:46 – Is Rocket Slow on Purpose? 50:53 – Speed vs. Depth in AI 56:59 – Sponsor Break 59:30 – Why AI Doesn’t Reduce Mental Load 1:01:49 – Is AI Replacing Humans? 1:07:18 – The Future Software Team 1:10:48 – Where Hallucinations Start 1:14:41 – AI One Year From Now 1:16:21 – Rocket: Luck or Hard Work? 1:18:07 – What Sustainable Business Really Means 1:19:46 – A Beginner’s Mental Model 1:22:56 – Advice to My 20-Year-Old Self

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0:00.0	How's the business going?
0:01.1	We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.
0:22.7	Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. When you are trying to do something differently, always first-time things challenge you. You need to just have a courage to do that attempt. If you get success, you can impact it lots of life. When you are building a startup, there should be something which can speak on behalf of you. Before the rocket, we were building startup name Tiva is a figma to code startup where you just need to submit your designs and we'll convert into code. It was a very hard time to convince someone. Machine can generate the code that can be accepted by a human being.
0:55.0	What if your mindset was built to code the future?
0:57.5	Vishal Varani is the entrepreneur turning billion-dollar ideas into accessible platforms.
1:02.3	As co-founder and CEO of DeWise, he led a developer-first app building platform that raised seed funding and rethought how software gets built. From a small
1:11.5	city in India to a global tech stage, he's proof that engineering, ambition and clarity can
1:16.7	reshape industries. Every six months, you are able to see a bigger impact than the entire SaaS
1:20.9	industry. If you are not able to end up those changes in your product, then you will be vanished.
1:25.2	With the capability of AI, anyone can do anything. It's all about what you believe, what your user wants.
1:29.3	If you will not adapt AI,
1:31.3	AI will definitely replace you.
1:32.3	AI will reform and restructure everything.
1:35.3	The going forward, maybe the role will be
1:37.3	AI product designer.
1:39.3	If you will build your capabilities in that particular way,
1:42.3	AI will not able to replace you. Vichael, tell me about Surat.
1:56.0	Surat, let me give you one effect about the Surat.
2:01.6	It's the largest diamond manufacturing city in the world.
2:05.6	So out of 10 diamonds, 9 diamonds get manufactured in my city.
2:09.6	Then the other people don't know about that story,
2:11.6	but like whatever diamonds you wear in, particularly in the US,
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