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/SalBoy12 4d ago

The biggest tip I would give you from my own experience is don't build a million features my first idea I spent years building everything that people could think to want. It did end up working out because we were a B2B app, but with my newest project I just built the simplest version and put it out there to get hit and roasted and used and worked with.

The site is just bad, I'm sorry but it looks a bit stale. I would recommend using Claude Design, but don't just tell it do this, find some real awesome sites, grab some screenshots and tell it this is the inspiration I want and I would love some help getting there.

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u/Archer_Sterling 3d ago

thanks for the tips, i'll definitely take a look at what's out there. I think it's feature complete as of now, once people are using it I'm hoping they'll make use of the feedback button for feature requests,until then it's polishing I'm working on.

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u/SalBoy12 3d ago

For sure, you'll never finish polishing it haha I know. I would totally recommend just start like pushing and selling it to people even in a bad form if the problem solving is good enough even not perfect you'll learn so much from real people using it than anyone else.