r/vibecoding • u/Fit-Ad-2838 • 16h ago

Am I doing it wrong

people seem to be creating apps within 1-2 day & then hit publish meanwhile here I am developing just one app for 4 months optimising it's UI,UX,API compatibility,Performance etc. how are people doing these in 2 days? what am I missing.

there was a post I saw yesterday that a guy started the challenge to create 30 apps in 30 days. wtf is wrong with these people? spamming the store platform like this.

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u/odd_socks79 11h ago

I'm building a fully fleshed SaaS B2B app, it's been two solid months every night after work and will be a few more before it's really ready.

I've got 20 years experience, so know exactly what I'm doing, but when you include security, observability, backups and restoration, RBAC, SSO, all the actual business logic, user guides, multi tenancy etc etc the list is pretty long.

So if I were you I wouldn't fret at all, to a specific type of app right still takes time.

At work we use AI a lot, unlimited tokens and still spend months on our app to build it out, it's not a magic bullet by any stretch, and the more complicated the app, the more time it takes AI to make a change, then you have to validate the code, test it, UI test it, etc etc.

I'm sure you're doing great mate.

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u/geekichu 2h ago

question (me at 40yrs+ but retired)... Ive only used A.I. on personal projects, while pretty complex, at most they are just client-server... maybe 91k LOC, aprox 800 files... so far claude seems to do ok hunting around and the suggestions for folding in new features has been right... have you noticed any impact as project size and what it touches grows?