🧑‍💻 Cheap to write, expensive to own

Vibebuilding

by Product Hunt

Wednesday, Sep 02

WELCOME

gm builders. Happy Wednesday. This week in three numbers, a prompt that stops your agent redecorating the codebase, and a thread about the 102 apps nobody ever opened.

THIS WEEK, IN NUMBERS

776 — upvotes for x1, which takes an iPhone app from idea to the App Store The launch →

45,824 — GitHub stars on GitNexus, put up last August by a CS student and now a company The launch →

$12.9B — what Nvidia is reportedly paying for Hugging Face, where most open models live The story →

Five builds worth knowing

STEAL THIS

Give the agent a budget

Siddhant at @Evolvix AI asked for a small change. It worked. Then the diff showed the agent had touched 11 files for a two-file task, some of it architecture drift dressed up as cleanup. Now nothing gets written until the agent lists what it expects to modify, add and touch. Then he draws the line:

This should probably stay within these 3-4 files. If you think it needs more, stop and explain why before continuing.

Now "I also need to refactor these seven other files" arrives as a question, not a surprise.

FROM THE FORUMS

We shipped 111 one click apps. 9 of them get used.

@asadmalik901 built 111 one-click apps for Arteza in six weeks, describing each one and shipping whatever ran. Nine cover 80% of usage. Around forty have never been opened outside the team.

Build time was never the cost. Every one is a surface that can break and a support ticket he can't match to an app. Cheap to write, expensive to own. Next time he'd set the kill rule first: untouched for 30 days, deleted.

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