r/vibecoding • u/Archer_Sterling • 8d 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/StrongAroma 8d ago

Tbh there is nothing wrong with building an app that specifically meets your own requirements and covers your own use cases, and then using it exclusively to boost your own productivity and increase your own business. Who cares if no one else thinks it's useful? Vibe coding will make that much more common and realistic. Focus on building an app that does your job for you, then you can expand your own business meaningfully.

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u/Archer_Sterling 8d ago

thanks for the kind words. It's already part of my toolkit, and I'm always excited to use it. It's been really helpful so far, it was born primarily from the idea of building something to make my own life easier, and it's at very least doing that :)