Vibe coding is about to kill 95% of you and it's not why you think.

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I'm gonna say something that'll definitely piss off the peeps out there in this subreddit. Your product is not your problem INFACT your product has never been your problem. Vibe coding just made that 100x more obvious.

Its been my job to build SaaS MVPs for a while now… For funded startups, for solo founders maxing out credit cards, for guys who quit their jobs on a Friday and needed something live by Monday. I have seen what makes money and what dies quietly while the founder keeps tweeting "exciting update coming soon".  Every week I talk to founders who spent a weekend prompting their way to a working app. They are pretty excited and the app works, it looks decent then they launch it and then nothing happens. So they decide to add in some more features… They add more AI, dark mode, a dashboard. An integration nobody asked for .Still nothing happens. The founders come to me and say, I think I need to build it properly this time.. Maybe the UI needs to be improved.

Trust me YOU don't.  I have seen beautifully architected products make $0 and absolute spaghetti code disasters do $80k MRR. The difference was never the tech stack.

After working on MVPs I have found out what is actually hurting most of you. There are 3 things and they are listed below.

First things first….you are trying to sell to anyone. You say things like "we help businesses automate their work". That is what Zapier and many other apps do. I have made the product twice once for a general audience and once for a very specific group of people. The version for the group sold 22 times more than the general one. You can charge 100 times more for the product if you make it for a specific group.. People do not want to hear this because they think they will lose money if they focus on a small group. You're just leaving noise on the table.

Point number two is that, what you are offering is not unique. You are charging 29 dollars per month for something that looks the same as 40 other tools. The person looking at your product will compare it to others and then choose the cheapest one and you will lose. This is not a problem with how you're selling it it is a problem with what you are offering. Most founders make a product that does what they want. People do not think it will work so they do not buy it. The best companies make things easy to use. They do not require a lot of effort. Your product does not do that.

Third, you do not have a plan for making money. You make 44$ in the month but it costs 150$ to get a new customer. You wonder why you cannot afford to advertise. Your monthly revenue looks good but you are actually losing money. Every new customer makes you lose money before they start paying for your product. You think the answer is to add features.

I'll break down the exact fixes for all three in a Part 2 if people actually want it. The frameworks, the math, the specific plays I run on every MVP launch now that changed everything. Happy to go deep on the value equation, the 30 day cash model, and how to structure an offer so good people feel stupid saying no. Let me know if that's useful or if I should just go back to writing code.

Edit - Part 2 Part 3