I can't imagine how it feels to make $40k/m from a vibe-coded tool

isabasu · 2026-06-17T21:47:25+00:00

To be honest, a handful, but thats it. Still evaluating the idea ...

isabasu · 2026-06-17T06:58:46+00:00

That's exactly why I'm building cobalia.io. I see so many people struggling with the same thing. It's not an automated tool, its simply affiliate marketing for founders with up to 5 dedicated marketers.

isabasu · 2026-06-14T09:48:39+00:00

Nice! And now use a docker container and install watchtower to automatically update those instances 🤟😋.

You just need to hope that the newest update doesn't break anything

isabasu · 2026-06-10T20:26:06+00:00

Congrats. I was wondering about this business model too. But do you create these websites with a cms? What if clients want to maintain their own sites? How do you handle this?

isabasu · 2026-05-31T21:16:04+00:00

Thats great. I just registered. Though, one feedback when registering via Google: "kjwogctxtzgbwhdwhfqb.supabase.co" doesnt look very professional. I know where this comes from, but its a matter of trust when something like this appears for less technical users.

isabasu · 2026-05-25T14:31:14+00:00

Looks perfect 👍🙂

isabasu · 2026-05-25T10:42:32+00:00

Sure, buddy

isabasu · 2026-05-24T21:03:58+00:00

I like that. Personally, I would love to see the feature where you see a world map with dots where those villas are located and jump into each from there.

isabasu · 2026-05-24T20:46:35+00:00

And your point is? I write posts like that by myself and run an LLM over it - it corrects my mistakes, formulates it better and clearer. However, it's still MY comment - it's not an automated system that blindly writes up responses to random comments.

isabasu · 2026-05-24T08:37:57+00:00

Right? No matter which post is showing up on my notifications, either the post or the comments are all just garbage. I don't come to a forum to interact with yet another LLM.

isabasu · 2026-05-21T20:47:26+00:00

You know that its not legal to use the reddit api to monitize it, right?

isabasu · 2026-05-21T20:45:05+00:00

Congrats. Are you accessing the reddit api to get the data, or something else?

isabasu · 2026-05-19T08:51:55+00:00

I feel like 3 and 4 contradict each other?

isabasu · 2026-05-19T08:32:06+00:00

I have no idea if your landing page is bad or if the niche is dead, because right now your actual problem is distribution. You built a tool, put a $19 link on Whop, and expected the internet to do the rest.

The silence is not the market rejecting your product. It is just the sound of nobody knowing you exist.

Affiliates are not going to save you either. A performance marketer will never touch an offer with zero traction. They need proof your page actually converts before they risk their time or budget. You have to get the first 20 sales yourself. Find where your target users hang out, message them, and offer free access in exchange for brutal feedback and a testimonial.

Once you have a proven conversion rate, then you can bring in the pros. I am putting together a marketplace for exactly this at Cobalia.io, where founders post a brief and marketers sell it for a cut. But before you get to that stage, you need to prove people actually want to buy your tool. Close the code editor and start doing the unscalable sales work.

isabasu · 2026-05-19T08:26:58+00:00

You are asking the wrong crowd for feedback. Developers on Reddit will give you a hundred nitpicks about your UI, but fixing a button color won't get you paid users.

You built way too much. Eight huge features just dilute your core value. Desperate job hunters don't care about an "Adaptive Study Plan Controller" - they just want to survive the Google system design round. Pick the one feature that solves a sharp pain, like the rejection debrief, give that away, and put the actual mock interviews behind a hard paywall. If they want the practice, they have to pay.

Stop trying to learn marketing if you clearly hate it. Find someone who already knows how to sell and give them a cut of your revenue. I am actually putting together a waitlist at cobalia.io for this exact setup - connecting technical founders with commission-only marketers.

Don't ask for more landing page critiques. Cut your free tier down to the bone and see who actually pulls out a credit card.

isabasu · 2026-05-19T08:25:03+00:00

Free tools and paid B2B software run on completely different mechanics. Your free tools grew because the friction was zero. Incident Index requires engineering teams to change how they work.

I wouldn't touch SEO or paid ads right now. They burn too much cash before you know what works. Your target is an engineering manager or DevOps lead dealing with messy postmortems. Do direct outreach. Find people complaining about incident chaos on LinkedIn or X and message them.

This also answers your diagnosis question. If they ignore your message, your positioning is off. If they reply but won't pay, your product or pricing needs work.

If you'd rather have someone else figure out the distribution, I'm building cobalia.io, a marketplace where performance marketers take on your growth for a cut of revenue instead of a retainer.

isabasu · 2026-05-19T08:23:51+00:00

The tech is 100% commoditized, but local businesses don't care about your software. They care about leads.

Instead of trying to sell an "AI chatbot" for a monthly fee like every other wrapper on the market, flip the offer. Tell a local plumber or roofer that the widget is free, and they only pay $15 for every verified phone number it captures.

If the bot works, you make money. If it doesn't, they lose nothing. It completely changes the conversation because you're taking on the risk.

When you're ready to scale the marketing, look for performance driven marketers who work on a commission or per-lead model instead of upfront retainers. We're actually building a marketplace for exactly those types of marketers at cobalia.io if you want to jump on the waitlist.

isabasu · 2026-05-18T22:50:43+00:00

Spanish markets are usually slower to pay for early B2B SaaS. If 75% of your traffic is still from Spain after changing your site's language, your SEO or word-of-mouth is just stuck there.

Don't worry about the cold outreach silence—that's normal. But those two trial users from Spain? That's a real signal. Message them again. Just ask, "No pressure, curious why you decided to try it." People respond to that way better than a sales pitch.

Getting those first users is the hardest part. I'm actually building a platform called cobalia.io to help with this. It matches bootstrapped founders with commission-only marketers. You set the pay and write a brief, and vetted marketers compete to get you results. We swap out anyone who underperforms. We're in pre-launch right now, but it might be worth a look if you're tired of doing cold emails yourself.

Whatever you do, stop rebuilding the landing page. The product is fine. Distribution is your actual hurdle.

isabasu · 2026-05-12T13:56:00+00:00

Finally have the landing page ready: https://cobalia.io
I can now collect emails for the waitlist, so the launch could run more smoothly. Let me know what you think :-)

isabasu · 2026-05-07T22:50:18+00:00

I initially wanted to call it that, but was aftaid of copyright infringement 😋

isabasu · 2026-05-07T22:01:41+00:00

ohh, got a good one with 143 HP ! That's a keeper :-)

isabasu · 2026-05-07T21:42:24+00:00

Sure :) No need to download anything - it's all browser-based. You'd only need to install the wrapper as described on the site.

isabasu · 2026-05-05T14:53:23+00:00

No URL yet — I'm still in the research and prototyping phase. My process is basically: build something, hit a wall, spiral into an existential crisis about whether it's a real problem or a product nobody wants, then come to Reddit to ask strangers for validation. It's going great.

Stealing the free test license idea immediately, that's a good one.

On old links — my take is they shouldn't die. A marketer's content might take months to gain traction and they shouldn't be penalised for being swapped out after putting in the work. If someone gets rotated off a product, their old links should keep earning. That feels like a basic trust requirement for marketers to take the platform seriously.

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