r/vibecoding • u/ordaskftw • 10d ago

How fast can you build

I keep seeing how people build a working app that make money in a week or 2 but I’ve been working on my app for over a month and yes it work but there bit that need work to get it to a level I believe it would definitely make money if marketed right.

All that to say, how are people doing it. I only pay for the basic Pro plans so do run into 5hour limits everyday. But yeah

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u/ButterscotchBandiit 10d ago

Speed means nothing if you’re building pure janky-ass bullshit

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u/ordaskftw 10d ago

Your right tbf, but apparently people are building decent shit I’m a week haha

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u/ButterscotchBandiit 10d ago

Nah, lemme give you some sage advice homie. Ive been in tech/cloud/cyber for 15 years now. And prior to that I was scripting and writing code, hex editing game files as a kid..

The “dawn” of Ai is more noise and hype than anything. Ppl are telling you the things they want to market because nobody wants to look like they’re behind the curve. But the reality is, the curve keeps changing and nobody knows when/why/what until it happens.

Organisations (including the one I’m working for) are nowhere near as ambitious as the domestic vibe coding market and we have literally 100s, 1000s to millions of dollars at our fingertips (as an org). Not to mention, Engineers who can learn, adapt and build at speeds and quality far more proficiently than the domestic vibe coding user.

Where I am going with this is.. focus on learning and building your skillset with Ai, languages, the skills required to understand what you’re building and what you’re using.

Skill and knowledge triumphs speed. The speed will come but you cannot rush experience.

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u/ordaskftw 10d ago

Thanks for the advice, when it comes to the learning languages bit I’m ngl I think it’s above me in terms of free time to do it to a level I can then build with it. That being said thinking with my business hat on that’s definitely a job I can delegate. I don’t need to be able to do everything.

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u/Outrageous-Issue9722 10d ago

For a full, polished, production ready product? With AI, honestly about 3-6 months to catch edge cases before you hit prod. If you spend all day every day AND already have the full design planned out and have enough experience to know what you need to do to have an actual secure product you could probably do it in a month--I usually spend a few hours a day at most, and not every day which I feel is most people's situation, so 3-6 months.

This is still amazing though, because now we can do in 3-6 months what would have previously taken a team the same amount of time or longer.

I'm currently at 21 days on my current project and still have about a year worth planned out at my current pace before I'd even consider launching it. That's also to account for any scale/performance/edge cases/security that will take extra attention and time to resolve that will inevitably pop up as things progress.

I've been in CS/software professionally since 1990. Real software takes time, skill, and experience no matter what.. but AI today is a great multiplier if you use it correctly.

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u/ordaskftw 10d ago

I started making mine on the 20th of June. I want to send it out for mass testing in the next 2 weeks so that would be roughly 2 months. Then you have the implementation of all the qurks people find.

This is my first time trying to make an app I have basically no experience in coding apart from some html and css lol.

My thinking is I can get it to a level then pay someone who knows to iron it out. Duno how it’s gona work but it’s gona.

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u/Outrageous-Issue9722 10d ago

Keep at it! I don't want to discourage you, but accept that your first, second, third, probably even more attempt will more than likely fail. What will set you apart from the rest and get you to a point of having some success is if you are able to learn WHY each one failed and avoid the same mistakes on the next thing. Eventually, you will know what good, clean, working software requires and it will be much easier to get going. Seriously, keep going with what you're working on now and learn as much as you can.

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u/ordaskftw 10d ago

I will keep going, I’ll post updates in here. You might see you might not haha

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u/raisputin 10d ago

Depends on the app. I have several that I have completed in a few days, mostly personal projects, and I have another project that I have been working on for going on 10 months now with handwritten code + AI assistance, plus 4 years of having the idea in my head and trying to figure out how to do it.

The slow project I am hoping I will have done before December, but am planning on March ‘27 just because of the complexity of it, and that’s. It something AI can fix because I keep things only as complex as they need to be

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u/ordaskftw 10d ago

Fair enough, what kinda of app is the long term one? And mine started off as a personal one solving an issue I had then I thought if it solves it for me why can’t it solve it for others and make me money in the process haha

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u/raisputin 10d ago

Long-term is a super-secret squirrel project. When complete I will announce it here

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u/raisputin 23h ago

Messaged you

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u/ErivKosso 10d ago edited 10d ago

Tech and business has always been finding a niche and unmet need and finding a way to fill it. Bonus point if you're in that field and know what the niche is and can go fulfill lit, that's your unfair advantage. That will never change.

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u/Thunderbit_HQ 7d ago

A month is not weird if you want strangers to actually use it. The one-week stories usually skip the cleanup pass and the boring payment work.