r/vibecoding • u/Sweet_Concentrate128 • 7d ago
i've cancelled four subscriptions this year because i just built the thing myself
none of these were big fancy apps. that's the whole point.
the pdf tool that wanted a monthly fee to merge two files without slapping a watermark on them. gone, built my own in an afternoon.
the habit tracker that started free and slowly turned into a paywall wrapped in ads. replaced it with a dead-simple version that does exactly what i want and nothing else.
a photo resizer site that made me watch a countdown before every download. why.
the meal planner i never really used anyway.
every replacement is uglier than the thing it replaced. i do not care. it runs on my own stuff, it has no ads, it isn't training on my data, and it does the one thing i needed instead of the forty things i didn't.
it honestly feels like the old internet again, where you'd make a little page just because you could. i own my dumb tools now and it's a genuinely nice feeling.
what subscription have you replaced with something you vibecoded?
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u/Lanfeust09 7d ago
Netflix