LORONG AI · TINKER TIME
FRI · 18 SEP 2026 · 14:00–17:00 SGT
LORONG AI @ ONE-NORTH · 69 AYER RAJAH CRESCENT
LEVEL 3 VIDACITY · SINGAPORE

Lorong AI × MonstarX

Building Your
Working Product
w/ MonstarX

~3 hours. Your idea. A working product. Singapore builders, meet the harness built for Asia.

Saad Kamal · Product Owner, MonstarX
Monstarlab Singapore

Today · Quick map

What we’ll do in 3 hours.

01

IntroductionsWho’s in the room · who’s vibe-coded · who brought an idea

5 MIN

02

Map the landscapeModels · desktop harnesses · web harnesses

15 MIN

03

Introduction to MonstarXSG MCP · Monstarlab · clients · origin

15 MIN

04

MVP thinkingIdea → problem → smallest proof · Clacel case

20 MIN

05

BuildLive on monstarx.com · 500 credits with code LORONGAI500

~2 HRS

Raise your hand · Q1

Who has
vibe-coded
before?

Lovable · Replit · Cursor · Claude Code · Codex · anything like that.

Raise your hand · Q2

Who brought an
idea they want
to ship today?

The landscape

You’ve probably seen
some of these.

Familiar names. Different jobs. We’ll put them in the right buckets next.

Lovable Base44 Replit Cursor Claude Code Codex MonstarX Anthropic OpenAI Moonshot / Kimi xAI

Sort the noise

Let’s put them
in the right
buckets.

Three buckets

Same tools. Different jobs.

01 · Brains

LLMs / Models

The intelligence layer. You talk to them — they reason, write, plan.

Anthropic OpenAI Moonshot xAI

Opus / Sonnet · GPT · Kimi · Grok

02 · Machine

Desktop harnesses

On your machine. Powerful. Needs setup. Speaks your repo fluently.

Claude Code Codex Cursor

Local · terminal / IDE · power users

03 · Browser

Web harnesses

Open a tab. Describe. Ship. Lowest friction from idea → live product.

Lovable Replit Base44 MonstarX

Browser · ship faster · today’s focus

Bucket 01 · LLMs / Models

The brains.

Models generate. They don’t ship. You still need a harness around them.

Anthropic

Claude Opus / Sonnet — strong reasoning, long context, careful coding.

OpenAI

GPT family — broad capability, tools, multimodal.

Moonshot · Kimi

Long-context specialist — strong for Asia / Chinese workloads.

xAI · Grok

Fast, opinionated, real-time flavoured models.

Bucket 02 · Desktop coding harnesses

On your machine.
Powerful.

They live next to your files. Best when you already have a repo — or want one.

Claude Code

Anthropic’s agent in the terminal. Deep codebase edits. Needs install + API.

CLI

Codex

OpenAI’s coding agent. Strong for structured engineering tasks.

Agent

Cursor

AI-native IDE. Pair-program inside the editor you already use.

IDE

Tradeoff: setup, local environment, and knowing enough to steer. Worth it when you outgrow the browser.

Bucket 03 · Web harnesses

Browser.
Ship faster.

No install theatre. Describe what you want. Iterate in the tab.

Lovable

Beautiful UI-first builds. Great for landing pages & polished fronts.

Replit

Full cloud IDE + AI. Code, run, host in one place.

Base44

App-builder energy — fast prototypes from prompts.

MonstarX Today

Describe → build. Asia-aware MCPs. Built for product owners who ship.

Introduction to MonstarX

Built for
Singapore
& Asia.

Singapore & Asia-specific MCPs. Local context. Better default when you’re building for this region — not shipping another Silicon Valley clone.

Country data · MCP · MonstarX Cloud

Public data.
For your AI.

Live country data — weather, transport, registries — no extra API keys.

SG 35

Singapore tools

7+

countries live

IN 188

India tools

0

extra API keys

SG · JP · MY · IN · ID · AE · PH · + TH/VN soon

What you can build with SG MCP

Property copilot

“What do 4-room flats in Tampines go for?” · live HDB + geocode

Commute assistant

Bus arrivals · train alerts · traffic · “should I leave now?”

KYC / due diligence

Verify a Singapore company via ACRA UEN

Weather-aware apps

2h / 24h / 4-day forecasts · UV · haze

Parking & mobility

Carparks near you with live lot availability

Civic & health

Dengue clusters · air quality for neighbourhood tools

MonstarX Cloud · The pain

Too many services.
Too much glue.

Builders shouldn’t need a weekend of API keys just to ship a working product.

Supabase

Database + auth — account, project, connection string

Mailgun / Resend

Email — another signup, another API key

OpenAI / Claude

AI — billing account, keys, rate limits

Google Maps

Maps — Cloud project, billing, restricted keys

Then wire the libraries, env vars, and auth flows. Fine for engineers. Brutal for everyone else.

MonstarX Cloud · Built in

Everything in
the package.

Database, auth, AI, email, maps, storage — ready on day one. No scavenger hunt for keys.

Platform services — mx.db, mx.auth, mx.ai, mx.email, mx.maps…
Plus connectors — plug in Airtable, ElevenLabs, Firecrawl, and more when you need them
Non-tech friendly — ship the product, not the plumbing

Want your own OpenAI or Supabase account later? Connect it. Until then — it’s already there.

Who we are

MonstarX · part of
Monstarlab.

2024

MonstarX started

Parent

Monstarlab Inc. · TSE 5255

Founded

3 Feb 2006 · publicly listed

Saad Kamal

Product Owner

Vinoth

CTO

Saad Amjad

Technical Director

Monstarlab · Client proof

We’ve shipped for
names you know.

Japan + global + Singapore — enterprise, consumer, hospitality, finance, insurance, attractions.

Global · Japan

SoftBank Fujitsu ANA Suntory Kubota Avon The Met Shake Shack AB InBev

Singapore

Gardens by the Bay NTUC Income UOB Mandai Wildlife Mount Faber Group MSIG Tokio Marine Resorts World Sentosa + more

Origin

Built an internal
AI coding harness
in 2024.

It worked for us. So we opened it to the public.
That product is MonstarX.

What we care about

We care what
gets built.

Help entrepreneurs & product owners bring ideas to life — not demos that die in a folder.

How MonstarX works · Modes

Build or
Plan.

Same starting box. Two ways in.

Build

Start coding right away — idea → product in one shot.

Plan

Answer a few questions first — tighten scope before you ship.

How MonstarX works · Prompt enhance

Average prompt →
better prompt.

Hit the sparkle — MonstarX rewrites a rough idea into a clear, structured brief. Undo anytime.

Before

After · enhanced

How MonstarX works · Build plan

Phased like
enterprise builds.

Not one giant dump. MonstarX breaks the product into phases — same rhythm we use shipping for big companies.

Phase 0 → skeleton & auth
Phase 1 → core workflows
Phase 2+ → search, scale, polish
QA agent checks each batch before you move on

Scope stays honest. Progress stays visible. You ship in slices, not slides.

Today’s promise

~3 hours →
working product.

Unfinished by 5pm? We support you after. The goal is momentum — not a perfect launch.

Before building · MVP

Smallest proof
that’s real.

01 · IDEA

What do you want?

One sentence. Who is it for. What changes for them.

02 · PROBLEM

What’s broken today?

Pain, workaround, cost of doing nothing. Be specific.

03 · SOLUTION

Smallest thing that proves it

Not the full vision. The first slice a stranger can use.

Case study · Early MonstarX

Clacel

Creator: Miyu · Japan

Teacher → founder Built with MonstarX service.clacel.com

English teacher. Manual Zoom classes. Built a product to supplement income — because she knew exactly what learners needed.

Clacel 3.0 · What she shipped

Pronunciation-
first.

~700 curated words — quality over dump
Native-style pronunciation video per word
Quizzes + bookmarking for retention
Built for Japanese learners who freeze in real conversation

Clacel · Pricing

One-time buy.
¥39,800

One-time purchase · tax included · lifetime access · no subscription drip.

¥39,800

tax incl. · Clacel 3.0

~$265

≈ USD at ~¥150

She priced high on purpose — teacher who knew the buyer. Not a race to free.

Outcome · Real idea → real money

$30,000
USD

Lifetime · 3.5 months. Not a unicorn story — a teacher who shipped.

Back-of-envelope

$30,000 ÷ ¥39,800 (~$265)

~110–120

one-time buyers · rough order of magnitude

Some of today’s ideas will work. Some won’t. We try.

Open the tool

monstarx.com

Describe → build. I’ll demo live.

Gift for today

500 credits.
Free today.

Code: LORONGAI500

Sign up free at monstarx.com
Open Subscription → Add credits
Choose the 500 credits pack
Enter LORONGAI500 — credits land on your account

Prompt tips · Brief better

Four habits.
Better builds.

01

Be specific

Who, what, where it lives, what “done” looks like. Vague → vague.

02

Give examples

Screens you like. Tone you want. Flows that already work.

03

State constraints

Mobile-first. One-time payment. Bahasa + English. No login wall.

04

Define done

“A stranger can complete X in under 2 minutes.” Ship that.

Hands on

Let’s
build.

500 credits (LORONGAI500) · monstarx.com · idea → working product

Raise a hand anytime. We’re in the room with you.

Lorong AI · Tinker Time

Thank
you.

Saad Kamal · Product Owner, MonstarX

monstarx.com · Lorong AI @ One-North

FRI 18 SEP 2026 · SINGAPORE · MONSTARLAB