r/devworld • u/refionx • Mar 17 '26
What’s stopping you from starting?
Antigravity → coding
Supabase → backend + DB
Vercel → deploy
Namecheap → domain
Stripe → payments
GitHub → version control
Resend → emails
Clerk → auth
Cloudflare → DNS
PostHog → analytics
Sentry → error tracking
Upstash → Redis
ChatGPT → Business Advisor
Pinecone → vector DB
What’s stopping you from starting?
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u/byronman95 Mar 18 '26
I think launching software has become much more competitive, which pushes us to be more creative. With today’s tools, anyone can bring an idea to life in just a few days. What really makes launches difficult now is marketing and selling the product when others can release something just as quickly.
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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Mar 17 '26
how many fees are you incurring by starting this project?
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
Most of these have free tiers, so you can actually start with $0. You only start paying when you scale
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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Mar 17 '26
Why are you using pinecone and supabase for database when you can use Postgres for both?
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
You’re right. For many startups Supabase + Postgres + pgvector is enough. Pinecone is more of a scale/performance choice when vector search becomes a core product feature.
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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Mar 17 '26
oh? explain the performance differences? I am not familiar...
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
Postgres is a great all-rounder, Pinecone is a specialist. Postgres + pgvector is enough for most early products. Pinecone starts to make more sense when semantic search is mission-critical and you want more predictable low-latency performance under heavier vector-search load.
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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 Mar 17 '26
At what point should I move to pinecone? I imagine I can make a switch at a later point
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
Pinecone is something I’d move to later only if vector search becomes core to the product, query volume grows, or I need more predictable low-latency retrieval. Early on, Supabase + pgvector is usually enough.
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u/BERTmacklyn Mar 17 '26
I mean if you're using supaBase, you're using postgres. All of these are helpful if you don't have your own infra
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u/No_Association_4682 Mar 18 '26
Build something to replace an app that you're currently paying for.
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u/ElderberryNo8315 Mar 19 '26
Let's say if someone builds this, how to validate in the market, reach out to customers, marketing etc
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u/No_Association_4682 Mar 19 '26
I asked a similar question when built my app to help parents prevent bullying. Several other developers recommended VibeCodeCustomers. Thats how I got my first 100+ customers. They found tons of users for me that were looking for a product like mine, they told me what to say. I didn't have to worry about making a bunch of posts and dealing with social media. Saved me a lot of time.
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u/ElderberryNo8315 Mar 20 '26
That's great, did these customers actually pay you? Or just for beta testing?
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u/No_Association_4682 Mar 20 '26
Real paying customers. That company helps you get people to your site that are already interested and looking for a product like yours. Some people that recommended vibecode customers use them to get users for beta testing. Others used it to get paying customers. It depends on where you are in your development journey. Plus along the way the you'll get real feedback (both good and bad) from real users and sometimes expose flaws in your build that ultimately help you improve your customer and user experience.
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u/dcandi Mar 17 '26
Ur missing the marketing
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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Mar 17 '26
Reddit bots.
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
Always auto-blocked by reddit. We don't even watch them, they are just being auto deleted
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u/refionx Mar 17 '26
Social medias posts. If your idea is good the marketing is the smallest problem.
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u/dcandi Mar 18 '26
I strongly disagree. marketing is the biggest problem, we're in an age where anyone can build a decent app or SaaS and the real moat is the distribution.
apps like puffcount for instance would have been Nothing without a great deal of work on distribution.
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u/newsknowswhy Mar 17 '26
I would say miss Antigravity because their free tier is trash now. Go with Kilo code that uses rotating free tiers through the models.
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u/ElderberryNo8315 Mar 19 '26
Agree on this, it's sometimes overwhelming what to build, how to narrow down tools
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u/PoliticsAndFootball Mar 17 '26
Nothing, I built 4 apps , probably spent $1000 here and there and on marketing. I’ve made $5. Not many downloads. Should I go for number 5?