Coding For AI And Why YC Backed Wasp Is Poised To Be The Backbone Of The Next Software Revolution

Forbes

16-06-2025

Wasp co-founder, Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic
Growth isn't just a goal in the developer tools space—it's the lifeblood. Few know that better than twin brothers Matija and Martin Sosic, Y Combinator backed co-founders of Wasp, the open-source web framework that's quietly reshaping how modern applications are built. With over 26,000 GitHub stars and a fresh $3.7 million seed round led by HV Capital and followed by Fifth Quarter Ventures, Big Bets and Metis, Wasp is more than just another dev tool—it's rapidly becoming the connective tissue of modern web development especially with its 'deploy anywhere' approach which is a major unlock for enterprise usage.
In a candid conversation, the Wasp team outlined their bold roadmap and shared how they plan to grow from a beloved open-source project into a foundational player in the AI-powered development stack.
Wasp's approach to growth is centered on four key levers:
1. Product Excellence:
'Simply put, we want the product to be so good that developers who try it naturally share it,' said Matija. Reaching their 1.0 release—currently in active development—is a key milestone.
2. Community Building:
Already boasting a highly engaged Discord and thousands of developers, Wasp is doubling down on education and visibility. Expect more workshops, dev showcases, and ecosystem content in the coming months.
3. Strategic Partnerships:
'This is where we're intensifying our efforts,' Martin noted. 'The right integrations—whether with hosting platforms, AI coding tools, or backend services—can supercharge adoption for both sides.' Their recent push to align with major players in the AI coding space is one example.
4. Team Expansion:
Wasp is growing its engineering and developer relations teams to execute on its expanding roadmap. As demand increases, scalability—both in code and in headcount—becomes essential.
While AI is often viewed as a great equalizer, in sense of diminishing the moat of building the product and getting it into the hands of users, that makes the underlying developer tools and technologies even more important.
Evolution at every level of the stack (frameworks, libraries) will continue happening even faster than in the pre-AI era, given an exponential volume of new web apps and SaaS-es that will come to the market with the help of AI-driven and assisted development. Every improvement in the tools used for it will further lower the barrier for builders and make both AI and developers more efficient.
While AI can democratize building SaaS-es, the underlying toolchain is something that must be widely accepted, verified from, and built by the community. That is the only way to progress towards safe and sustainable development with AI.
And that is exactly what the team behind Wasp is building - a new 'protocol', in non-technical terms for building web applications.
While many developer tools are still figuring out their place in the AI era, Wasp is already staking a claim. 'We're betting big on AI-assisted development,' Matija explained. 'We believe Wasp is uniquely positioned to become a default framework for AI coding tools and humans alike.'
This isn't just lip service: Wasp is already testing (and built their own early version of Bolt/Lovable back in the day) where AI models use Wasp's syntax and structure to generate fully functional apps. The goal? To make it drastically easier for AI to build robust applications by abstracting away full-stack complexity—something Wasp does particularly well.
'AI can now generate a lot of the code for you, even working applications," said Martin. 'But stitching together the frontend, backend, database, auth, and deployment, in a secure, maintainable, and scalable way? That's still hard. Wasp makes that orchestration dead simple—so we're effectively giving AI superpowers.'
As TechCrunch puts it, Wasp is becoming the 'glue' between frontend frameworks like React and the backend services that power modern apps.
While Wasp's early traction came from indie hackers and startup founders, the framework is now being used in production by enterprise teams. 'Getting from hobby projects to real enterprise-grade apps is a rite of passage,' said Matija. 'We've already crossed that first chasm—now we're focused on scaling it.'
This shift includes working with dev teams building internal tools, customer portals, and full-fledged SaaS platforms—all powered by Wasp's opinionated but flexible architecture which currently supports React, Node.js and Prisma.
How Wasp works
Wasp hasn't reached 'community darling' status just yet. 'We're not at 1.0 and still missing some core features,' Martin admitted. 'But once we cross that threshold, we believe adoption will accelerate rapidly.'
What Wasp offers is not just convenience, but a rethinking of how full-stack web apps should be built in an AI-driven world. Developers no longer want to spend days gluing tools together or wrangling infrastructure. Wasp abstracts that pain away—while giving AI systems a higher-level interface to build on.
Wasp team photo
The future of software development is converging around simplicity, automation, and AI. Wasp hits all three.
Its bet: that the next wave of developer productivity will come not from piecing together disparate tools, but from using purpose-built platforms that unify the entire stack—from frontend logic to database orchestration to CI/CD.
If Wasp's trajectory continues, it may not just be the next big dev tool—it could be the new foundation on which the next generation of software is built.