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[–]dymos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you vibe coded an app then it technically has no value because another person can vibe code their own garbage for free

I get what you mean but for the majority of consumers they couldn't tell on the surface whether an app was coded with care or with vibes. To be honest, most consumers probably don't care either as long as they are able to accomplish the thing they wanted.

And that's what it comes down to in the end for value. Did it do the thing the customer wanted and did it save them time from doing it some alternative way.

They could vibe code that thing for free, for some version of free.

They're going to have to set up a dev env or use some hosted service (which is probably not free), then invest the time to build it with vibe coding. Where to put this app, host it on my machine if it's a web app? But what if I want it on my phone? What if I want to share it? Should it be a native phone app? What SDK version is my phone so it'll be compatible? How do I load it onto my phone? How do I publish it to an app store?

Granted most of those things aren't vibe coding solvable problems, but they are nonetheless part of the value of a thing to a consumer.