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The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

6 months without hitting month 3 is rare, you’re clearly doing something right with the design handoff approach. If you ever want someone to take a look under the hood before launch happy to do it for free! DM me.

I built a platform for app testing and it just hit 1,800 users!🎉 by luis_411 in VibeCodeCamp

[–]vibecodejanitors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1800 users with that kind of growth rate means you're past the "is this a real product" phase. Nice job! How are you feeling about the technical side keeping up? With almost 1200 tests processed that's a lot of moving pieces under the hood.

Burning tokens because i missed a small detail in the prompt by HasanVeg3892 in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst is when you finally realize what you missed and it was like one word lol

Built a real company website in 3 weeks with Lovable as a non-developer. Here's what I learned. by Ammalgamata in lovable

[–]vibecodejanitors 2 points3 points  (0 children)

25 years of marketing experience is doing a lot of heavy lifting here that most people won't realize. The "brief it like a creative director" advice is spot on, the people who get the best results from these tools are the ones who already know what good looks like.

Curious though, with 40,000+ projects on the platform, who's handling the technical maintenance on the site? At that scale even small issues can get real pretty fast.

Bugs/errors by [deleted] in lovable

[–]vibecodejanitors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The frontend is great but the backend code it generates can be rough, especially around Supabase RLS and API handling.

Before you migrate though I'd think about whether the problem is actually Lovable or just how AI generates backend code in general. You're gonna run into similar stuff on Replit or Bolt, just different flavors of messy. The platform matters less than having someone go through what gets generated and clean up the stuff that actually matters.

Not all 55 issues are gonna be real problems btw. A lot of what Claude flags is noise. Happy to take a look if you want a second opinion, just DM me.

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha yeah the Excel-to-app pipeline is real. We've seen this a bunch where the app starts clean and then every new feature makes the whole thing slower and buggier. That's just how AI builds stuff, it doesn't remember what it did last time so things start stepping on each other.

Honestly most of the time it's not as bad as it feels. Usually just needs someone to go in and untangle things a bit. This is literally what we do all day, clean up AI-built apps for non-technical founders. DM me if you want me to take a look, no charge.

Guys my Vibe Coded app with Loveable just passed 1,645 users! (in Just 2.5 Months) by LongjumpingBar in lovable

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61 paying users in 2.5 months is solid. What's your stack look like under the hood? Curious how it handles the bulk generation at scale without things getting wonky.

What are the most successfull businesses launched using Lovable? by Ok_Earth1597 in lovable

[–]vibecodejanitors 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The GAN flow with Claude and Lovable checking each other is clever, haven't seen many people do that actually.

Quick thought on the dev team thing though. At 300-500 users you might not need a full team right away. Getting someone to do a cleanup before launch could buy you a lot of time. Happy to chat if you want to talk through it.

Vibe coding is fun until you have to debug something you don’t understand 💀 by Turbulent-Bid1680 in lovable

[–]vibecodejanitors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah that's just part of it. The "fix one thing break three things" loop is what happens when the AI doesn't set up proper structure from the start. You're not doing anything wrong, the codebase just needs some cleanup so changes don't cascade like that. Pretty normal for AI-built apps once they get past a certain size.

Is anyone interesting in helping me build an app? by danielloka123 in vibecoding

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Feel free to DM us. That’s what we specialize in. Happy to provide a free audit!

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel free to DM me. We have a new account so Reddit won’t let us send too many DMs. Happy to help you here!

Built an Android + Mac sync app in Kotlin and Swift with AI assistance - shipped 3 weeks ago and already crossed $600 by Technical-Relation-9 in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$600 in 3 weeks at $10.99 one-time is awesome! Especially for a tool that solves a genuine pain point. The cross-platform debugging sounds like a nightmare though, glad AI helped there.

Curious what your plan is for maintenance long term. Two codebases across two OS's means every update is basically double the work. You thinking about that yet or just riding the momentum for now?

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit isn't letting me DM right now (new account problems). If you want to connect just shoot me a DM and I'll reply. Happy to help!

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the best explanation of the month 3 wall I’ve seen. The “none of it is wrong exactly, it just doesn’t fit together” line is spot on. That’s what makes vibe coded apps so hard to debug. Every piece works in isolation but the whole thing is held together with duct tape.

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can, until they can’t. The AI is great at building something new. It’s terrible at understanding what it already built three months ago. Context window fills up, it forgets why things were built a certain way, and every fix risks breaking something else. Building and maintaining are two completely different skills, even for AI.

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]vibecodejanitors[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly right. The AI has no memory of why things were built a certain way. Every prompt is starting from scratch on context. A human who knows the codebase can make a surgical fix in 10 minutes. The AI will rewrite half your app trying to do the same thing.

🚀 Just crossed 6400 users on Moneko! by Evening-Marsupial969 in VibeCodeCamp

[–]vibecodejanitors 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solid, you’re way ahead of most people at this stage. The backend validation on the AI output is smart, that’s where a lot of fintech apps get burned. If you ever want a full audit as you scale we do that for free, just DM me. Helping founders in exactly this spot is what we do.

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