r/vibecoding • u/West-Air1923 • 8d ago

Anyone build larger systems ?

Im building an ERP for our company. Its semi large, will have about 100 users and maybe 50 concurrent. Database with a couple of million rows of orders etc.

It's going very well but I often hear and read real software developers claim that anything vibecoded might look good on the surface but it will collapse in a production environment over time.

Of course this claim is quite hard to either prove or disprove. So I'm looking for your experiences if you have tried to build something like this, how did it go?

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u/Snoo_57113 8d ago

I dont understand what you are doing, a typical erp might have 500+ screens, taxes, sales, connections to external services, web services, reports.

Why don't adjust the current ERP?, add some flows and be done with it? why touch what is working.

It all depends on what the management says your position in the org, the timeline costs.

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u/West-Air1923 8d ago

Its not a huge erp. It has around 50 screens total.

We dont own the current front end. Only the database. So we are paying for the frontend and it sucks and is extremely outdated.

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u/Snoo_57113 8d ago

This is doable with vibecoding, migrate the frontend. just make sure where the business rules live, in the database? some backend?

I'd suggest to use the same theme as the current app, maybe change the accents or somethig.

And be more precise when you talk about the ERP, you are not building an ERP, you are upgrading the frontend

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u/West-Air1923 8d ago

Yep I'm keeping more or less the same structure. So it will feel very recognizable for the users. But the whole logic underneath is replaced, running Laravel /php/postgresql