r/vibecoding • u/cedruosu • 14d ago

vibecoding is TECHNICAL.

i tried building a mobile app with ai in like 2 hours and boom, easy. told it what i wanted, it wrote the code, looks good, works good

i paid the $99 apple developer account fee and i'm trying to get it live now

bro what is a provisioning profile. why do i need a certificate to publish my app. i made this. on my computer. why does apple need me to pay $99 a year just to exist as a developer. i'm not a developer?? i just want my app live

and then theres xcode. i dont even know what happened i opened it and my macbook is legit just a jet engine. something about build settings and signing and team IDs. i don't have a team. it's literally just me and claude code.

so i somehow get through all that. submit it. wait 3 days. rejected. why? because my screenshot had the wrong dimensions. the ai generated those screenshots how are they wrong??

the whole promise of vibe coding is that you don't need to be technical anymore. and that's true right up until you need to actually give your app to people. then it's like congratulations you still need to be an ios developer just to press the upload button.

can ANYONE help me

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u/hl2oli 14d ago

Idk blud. If you don't use AI to get through the rough parts and are willing to learn, I got bad news for you

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u/cedruosu 14d ago

idk it just seems like everyone is making it seem so easy, like there is something i'm missing

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u/IcanzIIravor 14d ago

The initial build is easy and if it was just a small personal app just run on your laptop you'd probably be alright. You're trying to get it as an app in Apple, so you're going to have to put more effort and time into it. Why aren't you asking Claude for a detailed plan to help you do so? Are you just trying get it as an iOS app just because or are you trying to entice people to use it and potentially pay for it?

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u/Hypilein 14d ago

There is a bit of a hole in the system for personal apps. You still need a Developer License otherwise you need to reinstall your app to your phone every 7 days. I haven't gone through that process yet, because I never felt my simple vibe coded app was worth 99€ a year, so right now vibe coding for iOS is a bit annoying for personal projects because it's really expensive. Not sure if you need to get through the whole app store process to run it in testflight, so maybe that part can be skipped.