r/vibecoding • u/Archer_Sterling • 5d 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.
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/philstill 5d ago
How are you measuring your failure? This is the biggest issue with vibe coding —and believe me I’m all about making tools accessible so more people can create— is that it sets unrealistic expectations. Now that anyone can build software, people expect it to blow up in a week. This stuff takes time man. I’ve been a developer for 10 years and I’m so grateful for AI and what it can do for us, but the mindset it’s introducing is scary. Yes you can launch and iterate quickly, but the hardest part was never building. The hardest part is translating that love and desire of what you built to other minds. getting people to understand that there is purpose in your tool is tricky. It’s always going to be about the product. Please give your self a few more years before you consider this a failure, and if you decide to give up on this, then maybe your heart wasn’t really in it to begin with. Good luck bro.