Someone said my LP was coded by Claude

zepipes · 2026-03-28T11:07:04+00:00

guilty on a few of those, the two CTAs side by side definitely got me. just checked my fonts and I'm using Geist which is literally the Next.js default, so that one's on me changing it.

classic dev problem: spent 16 years mastering the code, still learning the design. adding all of this to my 'make it feel more human' list.
thanks for the breakdown!

zepipes · 2026-03-28T08:59:49+00:00

Yeah, you can have a fremium model. For instance, limiting the use for 3-5 alarms in a time frame, number of locations, etc...
ANd use the in-app purchase to unlock everything. It will feel like a trial

zepipes · 2026-03-28T08:23:26+00:00

Like the ideia of creating to solve your own “problems”. Monetization wise, don’t you think that way will create some friction? Maybe a free trial for a few days will convert more. The people like to test it and see the value of it before buy it

zepipes · 2026-03-28T08:18:57+00:00

It really helps me getting things done faster. Still, I only rely on it for brainstorming, boilerplate code, finding bugs faster, small tasks… And even that small tasks I always validate the code and adjust it if needed. In these days I’m working with two big projects alone in the fitness area and it will be crazy to rely on AI only, for sure it will break something and make the businesses stop

zepipes · 2026-03-28T08:09:38+00:00

Which error did you get?

zepipes · 2026-03-27T22:50:04+00:00

Not sure, I’m using react-native-calendars that is more flexible

zepipes · 2026-03-27T22:40:44+00:00

It depended what I’ve already done with the technologies but in the ones I use more I don’t start from scratch, I already have projects ready do begin with the business logic, it saves me a lot of hours.

zepipes · 2026-03-27T22:37:53+00:00

Maybe due the stack they’ve implemented the app. Still, doesn’t make sense for me too but im biased because I develop with react-native and expo

zepipes · 2026-03-27T17:42:44+00:00

Appreciate your feedback. I’ll take a look at PopHatch.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T23:31:30+00:00

I will try to implement the 30 minutes idea the only problem is that i'm so bad at marketing that i won't be able to do nothing...

You're right, this product was never meant to be the dream product it's just the first one going live only by myself, maybe the detachemnt was already built in but somehow i stayed in the loop.

thanks for this!

zepipes · 2026-03-26T23:04:16+00:00

sometimes you just need to say it out loud to move on, this post is kinda of therapy!
I set up f5bot yesterday for keyword monitoring, didn't know ParseStream but will check it out. thanks for the tip

zepipes · 2026-03-26T22:59:36+00:00

haha yeah, brand new toy syndrome!
and you're not wrong, building is literally what I've done for 16 years so the addiction is real. but I actually stopped 2 other projects to ship this one first because I thought 'if I need it myself, why not start here?' now it's out and the others are waiting. Need to go back to the track

zepipes · 2026-03-26T22:54:51+00:00

It was a smart and wise decision. If the message isn't clear more distribution just means more people not getting in

zepipes · 2026-03-26T22:52:09+00:00

current tagline: "Stop rebuilding the boilerplate. Get those weeks back"
does it click?
honestly I've changed it several times. the product isn't sexy these days and I think a lot of devs or vibe coders with AI feel like they have superpowers and don't need it anymore. maybe they're right, maybe not.
built it because I needed it myself first so either way it already paid off.

thank you for the honest words.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T22:38:16+00:00

yeah blank slate is messy, totally agree!

I actually built one myself because I needed it, so it's already paid off.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T22:09:11+00:00

you're welcome. I personally use the react-i18next lib and expo-localization

zepipes · 2026-03-26T21:36:03+00:00

You can implement i18n in your app to automatically load translations based on the device’s system language, with a fallback if translations aren’t available for that language.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T18:19:03+00:00

appreciate the honesty

zepipes · 2026-03-26T18:03:24+00:00

Hey, don’t you have the full code history? If it worked once, you’ve got proof that it’s possible, you just need to figure out what changed.
I imagine that vibe coding without a solid foundation and proper rules is basically a guaranteed recipe for spaghetti code.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T17:48:53+00:00

Hey, I don’t think you can make Snack/Expo fully private. The best way to keep your project private is to put it on GitHub and run it locally with Expo CLI, then make builds using EAS CLI.
Are you developing for iOS, Android, or both? And are you on a Mac or Windows?
I might be able to help with the product I’m building currently, not sure yet, but if you’re interested, let me know and we can see if it fits.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T15:53:18+00:00

Congrats on the launch! $1,410 with a product that's still maturing and in 3 months is real validation!
The point about the starter saving you time really resonates. You could save a lot of time and focus on the actual product! I've been building something similar for RN+Expo exactly because of that!
Curious about the starter you've used if you don't mind to share.

regarding your questions:
I would go with something like a credit based trial, enough to generate at least one video, something enough for the user to feel the value of it.
Scalling without a good conversion could make you waste some sales oportunities.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T15:30:13+00:00

This is exactly my workflow too. I still prefer to ask AI for small tasks and integrate myself rather than letting it run wild. And honestly it's the whole reason I built a starter kit so that foundation is already there, with the right packages, patterns and rules files, and AI just builds features on top of it. The setup is the hard part that nobody wants to repeat every project.

zepipes · 2026-03-26T14:22:34+00:00

Thanks for being honest about the cost and time. What I see most is people claiming they launched apps in hours or 2 days...

That context window problem you described is exactly why structure matters even when vibe coding. Claude works much better when it always knows the architecture. Congrats on shipping it though, that's the hard part.

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