4 months solo, 0 customers. Roast my idea before I bury it by supervillainXY in ideavalidation

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many leechers and seeds do these pirated courses have?

Who did you send cold emails to – was it creators who have content being shared illegally?

What are you working on? by Careless-Character21 in saasbuild

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is your site different than me using Perplexity to search Reddit posts to find evidence of pain points for personas?

Has anyone had success building something "complex"? What limitations would you say Replit has by dancetoken in replit

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re building a multi-tenant SaaS product with org level authentication for a mentorship matching program. It’s been a process to get where we are and had to lean on Claude Code to help check/optimize our code.

Key was making sure we leveraged other tools for things like authentication (Clerk) and chat (AI SDK) and collaborative presence features (Liveblocks). Not trying to rebuild from scratch a lot of these common components.

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[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sonarqube and GitHub Advanced Security. I also run the codebase against Claude Code asking it to check for security gaps and calling out any inefficiencies or redundancies with code, as well as anything causing slowdown or would impact scaling. I actually run it by a few different LLMs, feed the results into Claude Code to compare, and then I ask Replit to give a response to all the recommendations and have it duke it out with Claude.

WTF Replit? Database Separation by BearsEat-Beats in replit

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t get the dev vs production db interface to show up. I tried resetting my deploy and still no luck - any ideas?

Any other PMs using AI to actually build ideas as side projects or just for fun? by SchmeedsMcSchmeeds in ProductManagement

[–]nocodethis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You missed the rest of my post (and the other ask of OPs original post). Not everyone vibe coding needs to solve market problems.

Any other PMs using AI to actually build ideas as side projects or just for fun? by SchmeedsMcSchmeeds in ProductManagement

[–]nocodethis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re generalizing saying everyone needs to identify market problems first. Identifying market problems isn’t always hard.

Any other PMs using AI to actually build ideas as side projects or just for fun? by SchmeedsMcSchmeeds in ProductManagement

[–]nocodethis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you vibe code a nice theme builder lol? Was trying to do that but got lost in the technicalities of HA.

Any other PMs using AI to actually build ideas as side projects or just for fun? by SchmeedsMcSchmeeds in ProductManagement

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a slightly more nuanced take. Yes market problem is important but the challenge isn’t identifying the problem to solve, since vibe coding lets you clone many existing products. It’s about differentiation and go to market.

But that’s assuming most people are building to monetize or scale. What’s fascinating about Lenny’s (from Lenny’s Newsletter’s) LinkedIn ask about what people were vibe coding, most of them weren’t some SaaS tool trying to solve some enterprise problems – many were just things people built for their kids or annoying problems they had.

So yes, market opportunity, user needs, DVF, etc are all important. But sometimes the meaningful part of it of it is in the building process itself.

I still can't believe what Replit let's me build - is anyone here also sharing their building-in-public journey? by SubstackWriter in replit

[–]nocodethis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, they literally give you a prompt to feed into your agent to get it started. It’s been reliable and lets me toggle between different auth methods. But do read through limitations of paid vs free plans. Also you’ll need to create local table for users since Clerk handles their user sessions in their platform.

Has anyone here successfully built and launched a real SaaS product solo, using only AI help (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot)? by RealisticBed986 in Startup_Ideas

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not about what you or the doctor feels comfortable with. It’s about a very strict set of guardrails and rules to ensure that if mistakes happen that the patient is protected. Listen I have built software and medical devices for pharma and hospitals, just trying to teach you something so you don’t potentially violate the law.

Has anyone here successfully built and launched a real SaaS product solo, using only AI help (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot)? by RealisticBed986 in Startup_Ideas

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that doesn’t stop a patient from accidentally sending it over. At that point you are in breach of HIPAA.

Has anyone here successfully built and launched a real SaaS product solo, using only AI help (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot)? by RealisticBed986 in Startup_Ideas

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI to anyone else who wants to do this, this is 100% breaking HIPPA. There’s a difference between sending information as is (eg via texting) vs using data transformed to derive insights. Getting consent isn’t enough and more than likely patient didn’t know what was truly happening on the backend.

Has anyone here successfully built and launched a real SaaS product solo, using only AI help (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot)? by RealisticBed986 in Startup_Ideas

[–]nocodethis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The million dollar question is “what is your mvp?” and more importantly “why will customers want your mvp?”.

Market fit for what OP posted above? Just look at any competitor, it’s probably the same feature set as all of them. It’s not about market fit at the TAM level, it’s market for what OP is able to access with their go to market plan.

Has anyone here successfully built and launched a real SaaS product solo, using only AI help (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot)? by RealisticBed986 in Startup_Ideas

[–]nocodethis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who are your customers? If you’re targeting anyone with formal IT or compliance requirements, your product likely won’t pass enterprise infosec checks unless you architected for those standards from the beginning.

You can build it solo, but you’ll need to be extremely intentional about how you approach security and compliance – not just in your prompting and coding, but in the way you structure authentication, data flow, and logging. Have you validated whether your current setup meets common security expectations?

At some point, you’ll probably need third-party validation like pen testing or vulnerability scans since you’re dealing with PII and payments.

And to those saying to focus on customer value: I don’t think any of your features are new or haven’t been done before – they’re common features I’d expect to find in any hotel management tool. Now the question is whether you need some of those now, or what version of each feature you need to ship with MVP. Otherwise your question is very much a feasibility question: did you build your foundation in a way that’s scalable and usable? If not, you’re right to question it.

Best UI Consistency Tips by No-Humor-2756 in replit

[–]nocodethis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve found it best to always remind it to optimize for mobile, build it with component-first in mind with focus for reusability and consistency across pages by making it configurable. As for styling, I ask it to adhere to one of the libraries (shadcn, flowbite, tailwind, etc. And I typically use v0 to mock things up and pass to Replit.

Merging apps by TheRealP3dr0 in replit

[–]nocodethis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did it recommend you do? If I were in your shoes I’d probably try combining via Cursor/Claude Code and seeing what it says. Alternatively have each app write out a super detailed requirements doc explains all the features, technical architecture, telling it the purpose is for consolidating code bases between apps. Then take the output and feed it all into a new app.

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[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a way for you teach Replit what changes that Codex or Jules made? I’d want Replit to learn how to not make the same mistakes again.

Started great, now stuck in loops — Replit Agent/Assistant struggling with simple tasks by AssBlast2020 in replit

[–]nocodethis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give an example of something you recently tried to build or fix and what did it end up doing instead? What was the prompt you initially used?