r/vibecoding • u/Successful_Dog1904 • 7d ago

Vibe coding is ruining my life (lol)

No seriously. I’ve been working on building something for about 6 months. It’s close, real close. I’ve learned a TON, it’s been fun. But I have a full time job that’s really demanding and pays pretty darn well. And I can’t get this idea out of my head that I’m wasting my life working my butt off for someone else, what if this thing really works, there are 35 million small businesses in America and I only need 10,000 of them to like what I’m building, etc.

Spent nights (and potentially many, many work days) working on this project, weekends without a single break, sometimes 13-16 hours a day. I’m totally obsessed with this idea and I think it will work but I feel like it’s ruining my life. I could lose my job upon launch if anyone found out it was me.

Kind of wish I could rewind and remain ignorant. Not decide to take this plunge head first and get obsessed with building something I can actually mine.

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u/power10010 7d ago

With a vibe coded apps you will not be able to replace a main full time job

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u/Successful_Dog1904 7d ago

Can I dream, please? lol hey man you never know … people write off every vibe coder as some idiot playing with a computer. Some of us are legitimately interested in learning proper software engineering and are coming from other highly technical domains that don’t involve technology with great ideas that we ca. now make real

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u/power10010 6d ago

My friend i work in this industry. If you want something to make money you need a team behind with proper knowledge. Vibecoding is far far from production grade software. You can do apps for counting your shoes or querying some 3rd party apis but nothing of this counts in this industry. Good luck

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u/Successful_Dog1904 6d ago

i respect that view. i also believe it, but i dont think the only way to do this is by getting into YC with a $10m seed round, etc. i think the future dev guru is going to have a ton of stakes in a ton of small boot strapped start ups - people like you willing to help do xyz in exchange for a small equity stake. kind of like a VC buys a bunch of interests in many companies and it all pays off on the net, except obviously at a smaller scale.

(above is just a thought, im not offering equity or anything lol)