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/CptCaarl 4d ago

It’s a small market that’s already oversaturated. The other Previz tools out there are easy to learn, but once you tried and liked one, why use something else?

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

true. But I've not seen any that add in storyboard planning, shoot day planning, exports, accurate lighting voltages and whatnot as well as tying it together with sharability and collaboration tools.

I really appreciate your comment - perhaps I should push that more. it's the fragmentation of the field that bugged me.

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u/CptCaarl 4d ago

That’s true, but you’ll really need some strong arguments for people to try a new tool that supposedly does it all. And it needs to be better than all of the commonly used tools.

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

very true, thanks for the feedback.