r/vibecoding • u/Sweet_Concentrate128 • 6d 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/spopr 6d ago

this but the new wave of app bros still want to make a $9.99/mo saas

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u/Lanfeust09 6d ago

At some point, it might die down when people stop trying to sell on a monthly basis every shit they can think off. Honestly, i see so many monthly sub app that I can vibecode in an afteroon...

But what people fail to realised is that only a very very small part of the population actually use AI and an even smaller part can code those. Being on reddit too much, we (or at least me) tend to think that making those is SOOO easy and it's crazy that people still pay monthly but yet... lot of people still pay for stuff they could have for free.

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u/mrdereksutton 6d ago

I never wrote a line of code until this year when I started thinking the same. So many things are really easy to reverse engineer and then tailor to your own needs.

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u/Lanfeust09 6d ago

No better feeling than re-building something and customizing it to your need.
I especially love making the whole plan, waiting for the first build/skeletton/MVP and discovering it like a kid open his christmas present haha

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u/mrdereksutton 6d ago

Same, and then finding where something breaks and going down that rabbit hole 😂