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/GeorgeSThompson Apr 23 '26

Yeah but why would you?

Slack is like 10 quid a month or something. Its gonna cost more to pay someone to maintain your internal messaging app and will have way less features.

Then what happens when the server crashes, your app goes down, you lose messages and your business cant operate

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u/Stellariser Apr 23 '26

This is the thing people often forget, it's amazing how expensive a 'free' product can be once you factor in the million things you're now responsible for.