Josef Kujawski wins the German Vibe Code Award 2026: Best Solo and People's Choice

One evening, two trophies: Josef Kujawski, co-founder and managing director of Maluure GmbH, won "Best Solo" at the German Vibe Code Awards 2026 and took home the People's Choice award as well. On 5 November at Flora Cologne, the jury and the room picked the same build. A win across the board.

The German Vibe Code Awards are an AI summit with a live competition. At its heart is a brand sprint: twelve spots for solo creators and teams, a brief nobody has seen before, and five hours to build an idea, a brand world and a finished landing page with AI. The pitches happen in the evening in front of an audience.^[1]

Four trophies were awarded: Best Solo, Best Team and Grand Prix by the jury, plus the People's Choice, voted on by the audience in the room only.^[1] We are especially happy that the jury and the room came to the same result.

The task sounded simple and wasn't. Every participant received the same briefing, not as a document but as a single film of just over two minutes. In it, a fictional founder speaks from the year 2040: machines now need only a fraction of the energy, and people use the time they gain to repair the earth. Yet some landscapes are still missing their gardeners, extinct species. Her plan: bring these species back precisely where they are missing. She already has backers with money, land and knowledge. The film's last line is the actual brief: "We know what we're doing. We just don't know what we're called yet."

From that one film, three things had to be created in just five hours: a name, a complete brand design and a fully developed website. No follow-up questions, no template, no second briefing. Afterwards, there were exactly four minutes to pitch the result to a packed hall and the expert jury.

Josef's answer is called dodomino. The name plays on the dodo, the symbol of extinct species, and the domino effect: when one species returns, an entire landscape starts moving again. This led to the guiding idea "Bring life into motion", a distinct brand world and a donation website with before-and-after stories of restored landscapes, a clear explanation of the mission and a direct way to get involved. All built in one afternoon, all live at dodomino.org.

Nobody had it easy. The field included:

Agencies, studios, engineers and corporate teams with very different strengths, all working on the same brief. Those differences are what make the format exciting.

The jury deliberately brings different perspectives: design, brand, ideas and execution.^[1]

For us, that is the real recognition: a jury that looks under the hood, checks accessibility and SEO and asks about the idea judges exactly what we take seriously in client projects.

Chandeliers, pink light, flowers on every step and a big group photo with all participants at the end: our own photos show the evening from the front row.

Maluure is based in Cologne, and winning right here feels special. It caps a strong year: in 2026 we were also honoured at the German Network Award for outstanding entrepreneurship.

For us, vibe coding is not a party trick. As an officially certified Lovable partner we use AI every day to build websites and applications for our clients, faster, but with the same standards for idea, design and engineering.

Thank you to all participants, the jury, Be A Star Productions and every partner who made this evening possible. See you at the next edition.