Past event · Bucharest · 6–8 October 2026
CloudHero at How to Web 2026
Specialty coffee with AWS Startups. A stage session on building with Kiro. Two conference days with our customers, colleagues and partners.
CloudHero joined the AWS Startups team at How to Web 2026 in Bucharest, held on October 6–8. Our booth was a specialty coffee bar. Across the two conference days, it gave us a place to catch up with customers and talk with founders about what they were building.
Hundreds of coffees later
Day one brought great discussions, plenty of laughs, and time with our customers, including Daniel Rizea. Between coffees, our colleagues and the AWS Startups team kept the conversations going at the booth.
From an AI prototype to an engineering handover
On day two, our CEO Andrei Manea took the stage for “Prototyping at the Speed of AI”. He discussed spec-driven development with AI using Kiro, versus vibe coding.
For founders building a prototype, a practical benefit is making the handover to the engineering team easier. Alongside the prototype, you pass on a specification of what it should do. The team taking it into production has that context, rather than having to reconstruct your intentions from generated code.
Kiro’s specs capture requirements, design and implementation tasks. Those documents give founders and engineers something concrete to review as the prototype develops.
Three takeaways for founders building with AI
In his How to Web session, Andrei used a fictional procurement prototype to show how a specification helps founders test an idea. These are three things to take into your own build.
Start with one customer problem
Write the pain in one paragraph before asking AI to build. In Andrei’s demo, buyers needed to see which supplier contracts required attention and open the records behind an answer. That gave the prototype a specific job to do.
Write down the business rules
A working screen can still give the wrong answer. The demo ranked a €4.2 million agreement below one worth RON 18.5 million. At its fixed demo rate of €1 = RON 5, the euro agreement was worth RON 21 million and belonged first. The revised rule ranks agreements by their RON equivalent.
Watch a customer use the prototype
Give the customer the keyboard. Notice their first question, where they hesitate, and which answer they double-check. Use that feedback to update the specification before the next build.
The demo used fictional records and a simulated assistant. Taking it into production would require real data connections, access controls, and checks on the answers.
Back at the booth
After the session, there was more coffee and more time with the AWS Startups team and our customers.
Thank you to Nik Pluskis, Daniel Rubio, Florin Sandu and Rosane Rehal from AWS Startups for joining us. Thanks to our CloudHero colleagues Ioana Marilena Nicolae, Andrei Petrescu, George Calinovschii and Andrei Manea for making it all happen.
And to everyone who stopped by for a conversation or a coffee: thank you for spending part of How to Web with us.