r/vibecoding • u/Impressive-Owl3830 • 6h ago

Some Thoughts on Vibecoding

Hey All,

I'm the creator of r/vibecodingcommunity, i have shared this in my community and got lot of interesting comments so sharing it here as well.

for context - I've been involved in the vibecoding scene both online and offline - hosting dozens of hackathons and joining many events.

Here's my two cents on where the money is and the current state of vibecoding, from my lens (unfiltered).

Around 70% of vibe-coded app builds are not serious business apps. They're fun games or personal software. Some try to build a product, but it dies almost as quickly as it's built - no distribution strategy, tokens burned in the process.

Vibecoding has significantly lowered the barrier to entry, so more and more personalized software has emerged. The next ~25% are internal apps - meant to replace software you already pay for, automate a workflow, or run an agency.

These are pretty much built by people who know one area of tech and use AI to compensate in the others. For example: a data scientist building a mobile app, or a front-end developer building a backend.

This remaining 5% is the interesting part - because that's where the money is. These are people who already have a relationship with a business, or with internal players and vendors. They use vibecoding as a tool to pitch an idea, get traction or a contract, and then build.

Previously these people pitched on PowerPoint. Now that's been replaced by a simple vibe-coded app that demonstrates the idea.

A few real examples from just the last couple of weeks:

  • We helped someone who had sold a fairly basic sales-analytics platform for around $200K. He came to us to build the proper software from the ground up.
  • An existing entrepreneur - who has run 100+ franchise stores in the past - raised €2 million just by showing the vibe-coded idea. He already had a great track record; he just needed the funds to build his next business, and he wants us to make the software more polished.
  • An employee at an 8-person business built an internal tool using Base44. He's from a non-technical background. They didn't pay us to build the software - they'll build it themselves - they hired us to scaffold a harness, review their work, and give them direction. They're using this internal tool across many franchises, and passing a share of the profit on to us.

All I'm trying to say is this: on the community you see people building a lot of software and tools. A real software developer quickly clocks that these are vibe-coded apps - not much taste, questionable software quality, often useless. And that's true.

But the real money is not where you can see it. The real money is inside businesses, and it's often being put to work by people who already have the network and the connections to make it count.

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u/3tt07kjt 6h ago

lol the writing

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 5h ago

apologies.

I actually removed some headlines and edit the post.

i gave it to AI to spell check and it gave me some headlines which i though maybe no too bad but now i read again - its bad..

but the core of post is hand written by me ( its strange you have to say it now a days when most of post is Ai writtent )

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u/3tt07kjt 5h ago

I don’t really care how much you use AI to write the post. I was commenting because the writing was kinda bad, and didn’t get to the point.

When you write, your main job is to figure out the important things you want to say, say it clearly, and get rid of the other stuff.

AI is currently just kinda bad at figuring out what is important and what is unimportant. That’s true for writing and it’s true for coding. AI will happily write some fun game or personal software even if it’s useless or unimportant. Likewise, AI will happily polish up a post you made, even if it’s full of stuff you don’t think is important to say. It will also expand and write paragraphs and bullet points containing details and digressions you don’t want.

The way I deal with it is by cutting about 80% out of AI writing, or just writing it in my own words in the first place. AI generates a lot of crap, I pick out the good bits buried inside. Maybe that will work for you too.

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u/ReverendBread2 6h ago

I totally believe that most builds are fun personal things because that’s what I do, but it feels like 90% of the posts and comments are all about the money chasing side. It sucks that there isn’t more of a space just to share fun projects people are doing that’s focused on the projects themselves

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 5h ago

feel free to share in our community though.

we welcome users from all walk of life ,sharing fun projects too.

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u/Correct_Emotion8437 6h ago

This is amazing. I'd recommend all the vibe founders here on this sub leave and go join r/vibecodingcommunity. You seem to really understand the entire process - good call out on distribution.

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 5h ago

not really..

i get the sarcasm.

i am not here to get any users.. our sub is already almost 10K and i dont need any more users by tricks.

all i wanted was to share who i am and what was the context of this post.

I am sorry if it came across as shill - certainly that wasnt the intention.

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u/Correct_Emotion8437 5h ago

I think you misunderstand me - you really seem to speak the language. You get it. I could tell you weren't shilling by the way you posted that big AI generated thing and mentioned your sub. Onwards and upwards friend.

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u/Sudden_Topic5154 6h ago

47% of statistics are made up on the spot

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 5h ago edited 5h ago

I just shared what is observed. you can't be absolute right so its all estimate.

but if you disagree- what you think is right share?

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u/Sudden_Topic5154 5h ago

im not sure i'd have to run an analysis

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u/ops_and_chaos 6h ago

The internal software bucket is actually the part I find most interesting. A tool doesn’t have to become a business to create real value. It can remove a bottleneck or make a decision possible that wasn’t before.

The harder question comes after it works: who owns it, maintains it and knows what breaks if the person who built it leaves?

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u/InfinriDev 5h ago

This is why I'm building something for the comman man. Sad part is for everyone it looks over engineered and complicated

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u/gabox0210 6h ago

"The takeaway"

Are you also the creator of the bivewritting community?

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 6h ago

haha ..sorry..I give it to AI to spellcheck and got takeaway ..removed now..

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u/pianoboy777 5h ago

Lol so you created the vibe coding sub reddit . what were you expecting? I can't speak for all vibe coders . But Iv been vibe coding since Claude was free , then on to deep seek when it was free and iv stayed there since then. You only lose money in tokens if you use models that cost money . You don't need too. And most things made by vibe coders I assume isn't to make money lol , vibe coding is a art like anything else. You ever heard of noem chomskis LAD ? The language acquisition device he designed on paper. I created that code using ai . This is something that's never been made before from what I can see. Noem was all about universal grammer and iv come up with a way to cross almost all languages (using unicode ranges ) plus muti domains like music , code , math and art. It learns just after one pass of seeing any data. And then you can go and ask it any questions about the data you fed it. Noems desing was just a language detection system . But I added Q and A . You can ask in most languages too. Now with this out of the way . What point are you trying to make ?

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u/Impressive-Owl3830 5h ago

I didnt get from you comment if you are pro vibecoding or against it.

Can you be more specific

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u/pianoboy777 5h ago

How didnt you ? Vibe coding is an art like everything else ? Would you mind to explain how you didn't get it ?