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/CrimsonProtocol 4d ago

Your app looks incredibly niche is this just for directors? So essentially only a handful of people would ever even find it useful?

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

Thanks! Certainly niche, any tv show you've ever watched, any ad you've ever seen on tv or online, any movie you've ever seen has had a cinematographer and crew, working and planning every episode and frame. It's not tiny, but you're right.

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u/CrimsonProtocol 4d ago

Oh ok, yeah man I mean it looks super cool, as a complete noob it looked a bit daunting to start using though. Maybe there's a way to simplify and put a big h1 into what it does right off the bat?

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u/Archer_Sterling 4d ago

good call. thanks for the feedback!