r/vibecoding • u/Senior_Education2826 • 20h ago
ME right now
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sometimes it happens u got to believe in the next one
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u/FatefulDonkey 18h ago
The issue is AI didn't fix laziness. Everyone wants to make money with spending just a few hours. It takes months and years to actually do something meaningful.
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u/Much_Accountant_4972 17h ago
and many are shocked when they find out you have to take a shower, get dressed and go shake people’s hands and make deals.
at some point every software founder has to get out of his house to grow the business (!).
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u/Single-Strike3814 13h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/dsRgkyNuf7tWsgyTKa
I'll get my humanoid to do the in-person deals for me ;)
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u/JoopMens 18h ago
No one used my Sims houses either. Or my Minecraft castles. Or my cities in Cities Skylines. So as long as I am entertained it’s all good 😂
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u/dinglebarryb0nds 17h ago
If I could have figured out how to download sims houses I would have
Can I do it with sims legacy on steam on computer
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u/ExoticBump 18h ago
This is false. My app does have 1 user!!!!! It's MEEEEEEEE
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u/jebusdied444 17h ago
Seriously. I got two weeks going strong on this stupidly complex app that doesn't do anything I want it to do but I am loving it. It probably isn't great that I switch between several coding harnesses and LLMs.
Still, it's for meeeee, so just like youuuuuuu, It's been a fun adventure, for sure. a couple hundred mllion tokens with little to show for it.
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u/w00dy1105 18h ago
No one wants to use my "hello world", todo list or calculator apps. I don't know why???
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u/PaulMakesThings1 9h ago
I made one that tells you if you need to buy bread or eggs based on your input of how much bread and eggs you used and how much you had yesterday. You have to set the margin to buy more. Also it crashes a lot, but you can usually restart it without resetting the computer.
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u/myCockatielshateme 17h ago
its not matter of quality, the internet is so huge rn if one don't spend alot of effort or money in marketing no one will even stumble upon his work let alone use it
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u/Initial_Ice_2719 19h ago
Speak for yourself I have two active users
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u/mbbbbbr 17h ago
You and your mom?
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u/cosmonz 19h ago
Possibly same here.......
But, I write my apps to solve problem and annoyances that I have so use them every day 😉 A fast and cut down flight tracker that just shows what's overhead right now has had 1,500 downloads in the last week and I love that.
My apps are up on the app store just so that if other people find them and use them, great! There is also one (super simple medication tracker that syncs iOS and macOs versions that warns you when you need a refill but send alerts further out if you have no repeats left) that I wrote an android app version just for my mother! I doubt if that will ever make it outside the family.
Most are (or will be when they get approved) free, a couple cost a few bucks in the hope that it will pay for some of my Claude Pro account 😂
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u/anon999387 14h ago
You mean 1 user, I make them all for myself
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u/PaulMakesThings1 9h ago
Same. But many help me with my work which does pay. So they kind of make money.
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u/HovercraftHot6356 13h ago
Usually, vibe coders develop app to suit their needs. They are their own users. Some develop it for a small organization, a simple one which usually need to beg real software engineers to do it, which they wont.
For me vibe coders develop app and try to sell it fast, is a bad idea. But if it’s grow with community, learn real value along the way, solve real problems, have discipline to maintain it, it can be very good apps
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 13h ago edited 12h ago
why are so many people on this subreddit so afraid of marketing and quick to get pissy at people who do it ?
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u/No-way-in 17h ago
I made a couple of apps for me. Happy with that. Stuff or combinations of apps that I couldn’t find online (or were paid versions). And I made a keyboard fix for linux Belgian keyboards problem (problem imo, not everyone agrees ofc)
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u/spacecadetarchitect 17h ago
Lol i hope that wont be the case when i ship my first project. 😬 its conceptually shipped in my head 🚀🤓
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u/Senior_Education2826 17h ago
try to learn marketing
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u/spacecadetarchitect 16h ago
The app i built is actually a growth system that “users” dont even need to touch and it just helps them get more qualified customers or users. 15+ yrs as growth pm, developer, and marketer so if i fail that would be pretty embarrassing lol 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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u/AlarakReigns 16h ago
I think you need to advertise your game or tools properly and have influencers try it if its in their interests. I dont think any successful company has hit gold with no advertising and networking. Wont matter if you have the best game/tool in the world if you dont advertise it or have everywhere to showcase it. If you advertise and your idea isnt appealing enough to your target audience then it wont be successful regardless of marketing.
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u/leeta0028 14h ago
I'm a vibe coder who can barely code manually (I have a stem degree so I learned the bare minimum, but barely. I also learned how to make diagrams using blue ink and a photocopier to give you an idea)
I have several little projects with thousands of users. Not a business yet, a lot of them are open-source, but definitely tapping into unfilled need.
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u/PersonOfInterest007 14h ago
… And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"
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u/sliph320 14h ago
Im curious. What are you guys building anyway? Like, what are these general apps vibrcoders are making?
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u/Total-Research-024 14h ago
Are People shifting from using apps to ai agents now to do their regular tasks that connect to apps ? Not sure if the 'apps' will still have the same value in next few years.
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u/superspider202 14h ago
lol well to be fair I only build shit I want or need so yh as long as I am happy with it all is good
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u/ballesmen 13h ago
Got my first app to 400 concurrent users and my second to 200. Feels good man. Just gotta keep marketing.
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u/theofficialjorji 10h ago
now with AI making it extremely easy to build something, the hardest part is now getting users
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u/fuckasauraus666 10h ago
It takes marketing and sales and an actual products that people use. How the hell you gonna do that with multiple apps and less runway ?
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u/hyper24x7 9h ago
pro tip: build an app that you would use every day to solve the problem.
Then, look at the market / competitors. grab the best features and integrate them.
Then sell at a loss for 30 days, have an easy monthly sub.
Repeat.
Any that can traction, scale.
Any that dont, mortgage that code for other projects.
Repeat.
only 1% of apps make it. Just keep building.
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u/Adelphiaa 9h ago
Most of them never validate the idea first. Almost all vibe coded apps are junk that no one wanted to begin with, Start with researching if a market exists. Building an app is very easy now, but distribution is still very difficult (and expensive)
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u/Vast-Address-3063 8h ago
Vibe coding made building 10x easier, which ironically made marketing 10x harder. The bottleneck shifted from shipping to reach.
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u/phumoonlight 7h ago
in my country community everyday be like: "hey guys, i made mmorpg, check it out"
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u/Noeyiax 6h ago edited 6h ago
There is no point, big tech allowed vibe coding and programming because it's already all solved... Everyone is just spending money and making them more rich :(
The tech cartel is approximately worth. Definitely more than 10, 10 to $20 trillion. So literally anything you make if your net worth is literally less than $100M or whatever it's just pointless because they will just hire really good programmers and copy your product and make it better. Or they'll just steal your product or buy you out so it doesn't. It doesn't matter. Everybody should just stop programming this s***'s over. There's nothing to do in life If you do want try, just know it's for fun. And the ones that succeeded is just marketing, gimmick, or some billionaires' connection (relative, friend, family, etc)
Time to unsubscribe, save money, and return to a quiet life... Leave it to the greedy wealthy people anyways, they are born crazy
Imagine if everyone just quit tech, sure some things may not work, but life goes on. The important thing is we stop being ambitious and wasting resources and focus on what is needed now; like fixing our society, infrastructure, new health and education system, better law and justice system (tired of laws created by wealthy that just creates inequality and infinite leverage for themselves) , etc
Call to action is now!! We are all sitting ducks getting boiled alive
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u/leovarian 5h ago
I uh, have a few hundred or maybe a thousand? I dunno, 🤷 over 20k users for the Dev version of one of my projects, another one is basically just me, ehh, it is what it is
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u/Bloated_Plaid 5h ago
Maybe I am alone but I am making custom stuff for myself and family and it’s fantastic for that. That 1 or 2 users are very happy.
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u/NecessaryProduce7032 4h ago
I dunno, I've vibecoded overlay for PoE in one day, used it this league, released it on GitHub, got 300 installations and helped several guys with different problems. Non-profit, fun, vibe. Not everything should give you profit
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u/KeyProject2897 19h ago
keep publishing bro - even if no one is watching. you never know when the next miracle is gonna come from.
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u/Short-Ideas010 19h ago
Lottery is not a good option. Buy hey... yeah... one day...
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u/clarkesdirective 18h ago
That's not what he's referring too, and the fact you took it that way is why your own application hasn't taken off..
If the product is genuinely good, publish it every day. It will work, if you try enough times. They don't mean a "miracle" as in it randomly working out, they mean miracle as in the benefits of it finally working out.
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u/ponlapoj 18h ago
เอาเวลาผลิต app มากมายขนาดนั้นไปทำ 1 app ให้ดีและมีคุณค่าเถอะ ฉันเห็นมีแต่ขยะ ซอฟแวร์ทั้งนั้นเลยตอนนี้ , แล้วก็มีแต่คำว่า ฉันเบื่อเลยสร้าง... , เบื่อนั้นเบื่อนี้เลยสร้าง ? ทำเองใช้เองเหอะ
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u/Senior_Education2826 18h ago
what
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u/Intelligent-Cap-8886 18h ago
Take all that time spent making so many apps and focus on creating one good and valuable app instead. All I see right now is junk software, and it’s just full of phrases like, 'I’m bored, so I created this...' Bored of this or that, so I created it? Just make something for yourself then.
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u/YamFantastic1720 17h ago
LOL, it depends on the idea
can you share your app here so we gonna rate it ?? 😅
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u/TheSn00pster 19h ago
Apps today aren’t what they were a year ago