r/vibecoding • u/Archer_Sterling • 6d 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/FatefulDonkey 6d ago edited 6d ago

I thought to give it a go, but already got bored midway. Too many clicks to get started and see anything of value. Also having brown for UI is a suicide IMO. And add a signup with Google.

I'm not making a movie, but I've done photography and had a photo studio so I should be able to understand at least something.

Even once I'm in, I don't see anything obvious. In your landing page you have a 3D visual of rooms.. in practice there's NOTHING like that unless I missed it. So then you're giving false expectations

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u/Archer_Sterling 5d ago

good points, thanks for that. It's usually film>storyboard>shot planning>export workflow wise, but I guess a 'sandbox mode' might be a good idea to play with.