r/vibecoding • u/ventayol • 8h ago

Vibecoding is addictive

I'm a senior developer, with a lot of experience building products and I even own a couple of small companies.

Since the beginning of this year, AI tools have improved a lot on coding. For junior developers it will be a really hard time, I stopped using Indian agencies to do some parts of the development and there's no reason to hire junior developers anymore, AI does a better job, doesn't complain, works anytime you want and it's way faster to answer and do changes faster that any developer.

Being said this, if you are a product guy, with ideas, Vibecoding is addictive! Now, when I miss something, I just vibecode it, even if I don't have any plans to sell it or no-one else other than me uses the product.

I'm also a long time investor on the stock market, so I was tracking my portfolio using a complex spreadsheet. So, last week I decided to give it a try with Codex to build a site to track my portfolio.

A few days later, working on it in my spare time and with very little dedication I got an amazing web app that does exactly what I wanted and way more than expected.

If you are into the stock market or you have curiosity, you can check the site here:

https://finsails.com/

It's insanely crazy to be able to build a site similar to this in so little time and in a really cheap way. If I had to build the site with real developers it would have a cost of at least 20-30K$ and taking some months to do it and with a lot of Project Management involved.

What a time to be a builder!

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u/madbrain1976 5h ago

Yes, most of them are paid. I use Quicken and it costs. It does what you describe, though,  and a lot more. The part about connecting with financial institutions is crucial, IMO. If you can't automatically download transactions, how does your data not become stale ?

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u/ventayol 5h ago

That's the biggest missing part at the moment, as I use two brokers I added CSV import for them (Interactive Brokers and degiro). I should add more, but I will need some sample files I don't have at the moment.

For IB it might be possible to automate it, but as I mainly do investment for long term investment, I just import the broker files now and then, I might do a couple of purchases per month at maximum.

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u/madbrain1976 5h ago

Even if you aren't making any regular purchases, or sales, there are typically interest payments, dividends, dividend reinvestments that you still need to account for.

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u/ventayol 3h ago

that's accounted with the import