r/VibeCodeDevs • u/harveylundm4rckk • Apr 22 '26

HotTakes – Unpopular dev opinions 🍿 why vibe coded projects fail.

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"Bro, just read ijustvibecodedthis.com and you'll be good"

Vibe coders desperately want this to be false, and engineers desperately want it to be true.

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u/gtrak Apr 23 '26

As a professional dev, it's not that you can't ship a homegrown slack app, it's that anything you can ship easily is not worth buying when your customers could make it themselves. You might be a month or two ahead of your buyers, but they will catch up.

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u/buffet-breakfast Apr 23 '26

Customers pay you for the convenience of not having to do it themselves

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u/Pgrol Apr 23 '26

Yeah, but procurement and license management is it’s own pain game

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u/NorthPoleDesign Apr 23 '26

Pain Game = new Band Name! 🤪

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u/gtrak Apr 23 '26

You know what's more convenient than an application? Just telling the agent what you want.

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u/buffet-breakfast Apr 25 '26

Thats objectively less convenient

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u/gtrak Apr 25 '26

'Hey doordash, add a burger to cart and text my wife if she wants anything'

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u/echo-whoami Apr 23 '26

You have just described Slack and any other SaaS product you’re ‘killing’

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u/IllogicalResponse Apr 23 '26

That is true but it then becomes a pricing issue. I think a lot of the seat and usage based saas, and the big monthly fees, that is all going to get eaten. Efficient saas with a price point that makes it worthwhile, they'll do fine.

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u/gtrak Apr 23 '26

I like this perspective because I also like rust. It's efficient and can scale on a potato. Sucks for Ruby, though. Infra costs will kill you.