# How to Vibe Code Your Own iubenda (and Stop Paying for It) > Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations - Site: https://iubenda.com - Category: Legal & Compliance SaaS - Verdict: **Serious undertaking** (45/100 vibecodeable) - Estimated effort: 4-6 weeks of part-time engineering ## Verdict Build a static policy generator and wrapper for personal use, but keep paying for a certified CMP if you need legal liability protection. While generating markdown privacy policies and rendering a basic cookie banner UI takes a weekend, building a legally bulletproof, Google-certified CMP that handles strict prior script-blocking, real-time geo-IP regulation routing, and IAB TCF interoperability is a massive, ongoing maintenance trap. Real compliance involves zero room for error; if your script blocker fails to intercept a tracker before consent, you face real regulatory fines that make the $5.99/mo Essentials plan an obvious choice. ### What you can't replicate - In-house lawyer-drafted legal clauses backed by legal liability indemnity - Official Google-certified CMP partnership and IAB TCF validation - Network trust and 15 years of continuous regulatory adaptation ## What it does An all-in-one digital compliance and consent management platform covering privacy policies, cookie banners with prior script blocking, terms and conditions, and accessibility tools. ### Core features - Dynamic privacy and cookie policy generator across multiple languages - Consent management platform (CMP) banner with prior script blocking - Audit-proof, immutable consent logging database - Google Consent Mode v2 and IAB TCF 2.2 interoperability - Geo-IP based regulatory routing (GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, FADP) - Automated website scanning for trackers and cookies ## The business ### Pricing - Free: $0 — Basic policy generation and cookie banner for 1 site with 1,000 pageviews/mo. - Essentials: $5.99/mo — For small websites needing full policy generation and standard cookie consent. - Advanced: $24.99/mo — Advanced multi-language compliance and automated scanning. Founded 2011. Team size: 100-140+. ## The hard parts - Building a reliable prior script-blocking proxy/tag manager that intercepts third-party tags before user consent - Maintaining up-to-date legal clause templates for changing global privacy laws across 27 languages - Designing an immutable, cryptographically verifiable consent audit trail - Handling real-time geo-IP lookup and dynamic regulatory rule enforcement at the edge ## How to vibe code iubenda ### Prerequisites - Node.js (free): Required for running the full-stack Next.js development environment. - GitHub (free): Source control and deployment pipeline integration. ### Recommended AI tools - Claude Code: Best-in-class multi-file agentic coding tool for scaffolding complex backend logic and policy template engines. - Cursor: Ideal for fine-tuning the cookie banner UI components and script-blocking client snippets. ### Stack - Frontend: Next.js - Backend: Next.js API Routes - Database: Turso - Auth: better-auth - Payments: None (personal use) - Other: Vercel AI SDK ### Hosting - Cloudflare (Hosting the edge script-blocking CDN snippet and edge worker routing.): $0-5/mo - Vercel (Hosting the main Next.js compliance dashboard and policy generation UI.): $0/mo ### Build guide 1. **Project Scaffolding & Database Schema** — Initialize the Next.js project with Turso and better-auth, setting up database tables for sites, generated policies, and consent log audit trails. ``` Initialize a new Next.js 16 project with Tailwind CSS 4 and TypeScript. Configure Turso (libSQL) as the database client. Create database schemas using Drizzle ORM for: (1) `sites` (id, user_id, domain, created_at), (2) `policies` (id, site_id, language, content_json, version, updated_at), and (3) `consent_logs` (id, site_id, visitor_hash, consent_state_json, ip_country, timestamp). Implement better-auth for single-user owner authentication. Ensure all migrations run cleanly on startup. ``` 2. **Policy Generator Engine** — Build the dynamic clause assembler that compiles structured site services into structured markdown/HTML privacy and cookie policies. ``` Create a policy generator service in Next.js. Define a modular library of lawyer-drafted legal clause templates for standard web services (e.g., Google Analytics, Stripe, Mailchimp, Hosting). Build an admin form where users select their active services and target languages (English, Italian, Spanish, French, German). Write a compiler function that aggregates selected clauses into a cohesive, structured privacy policy document rendered in clean HTML/Markdown with automatic versioning. ``` 3. **Consent Banner Widget & UI Customizer** — Develop the embeddable cookie consent banner widget with styling customization options and local state persistence. ``` Build a lightweight, embeddable React/vanilla JS cookie consent banner widget. Create a dashboard UI to customize banner colors, position (bottom bar vs center modal), cookie categories (Necessary, Analytics, Marketing, Preferences), and language strings. The widget must render an accessible banner on target sites, store user preferences in local storage and cookies, and expose a global `window.iubendaConsent` state API for external script verification. ``` 4. **Prior Script-Blocking Proxy & Snippet** — Implement the client-side JavaScript wrapper that intercepts and blocks third-party trackers until explicit user consent is registered. ``` Write a lightweight asynchronous script snippet (to be embedded on client websites) that intercepts third-party script tags (e.g., `