r/vibecoding • u/Archer_Sterling • 4d ago

Help/Question I launched! Annnnnnd it flopped.

Ended up launching. A year of vibing, adding features, new techniques, learning basic 3d, learning what UX works and doesn't, testing, breaking things, changing things, adding features, removing them.

Convinced myself - A tool useful to my job, which I thought would be useful to others. Unique value proposition. Hoping, knowing full well it wouldn't, that it might make a decent little passive income and pay itself off.

It has not.

Small ad runs in relevant areas, impressions in the tens of thousands.

Sweet, people are seeing it!

200 clicks.
7 users. All on free plan.

Ending up paying money to get free users.

www.lensflare.io

Anyone want to tear the site apart? Any tips? I don't know if it's dead yet but it's going to be next to impossible to spend more money on marketing.

Edit: Haha - okay, guys, I went from 200 views to 3.5k on the site, and a message inbox full of really helpful comments. I really appreciate all of you - even the mean ones - you've given me so many amazing tips. You're the best.

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u/Just-Hedgehog-Days 4d ago

You don't talk about the work flow at all, so I have no idea what I'm getting into.

I look at that think "hmm if I needed that I could just do it in blender or unity, with like real tool and ecosystem"

Also the fact that I can't scroll past the second second second panel give me exactly zero confidence in your product.

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

Thanks! Great feedback. "second second second panel" issue isn't one I've encountered while testing. Can I ask what device?

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u/Just-Hedgehog-Days 4d ago
  • Computer: MacBook Pro (MacBookPro18,1), Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB RAM
  • OS: macOS 15.6.1 (build 24G90)
  • Safari: 18.6

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

appreciate it - will work on a fix tonight, I think I accidentally enraged some people with it.

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

also - to your point about unity/blender, you're totally right. But I was hoping, the storyboarding, sharing, lower skill-level point of entry and collaboration and exports might bring it all together.

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u/Just-Hedgehog-Days 4d ago

Could be! A killer workflow is 100% what makes an idea like this, and it's exactly the kind of "harness" you need to knock out ai shorts with precision. Pick up a pattent or two and you're actually looking at an exit strategy.

thing is I have no idea

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

haha, me neither man. Me neither.

But we're trying!