Who here has fully vibecoded a profitable product?
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On social media, we're constantly hearing about individuals who never knew how to code and were able to vibecode a product within a short period of time.
Whenever I come across these posts, I always wonder if their product is truly marketable and profitable. Or, they are just selling the dream.
My experience with vibecoding is that, at the moment, it's not really possible to create a decent product without any coding knowledge. The process always involves a heavy amount of manual tweaks and debugging.
I want to be proven wrong - I would love to learn how this can be properly done.
If anyone here has built a profitable product vibecoding without any coding knowledge, please share your stories!
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PartnerWise
It's definitely possible, I have done so, but it doesnt replace the need to still run a businesses with it!
Atlas
i don't think we're there yet - i think vibecoding is just the beginning. What i imagine happening is that this trend is going to influence developers to build their apps so that they can be easily plugged into someone's vibecoded product.
check out nico jeannen. he's on twitter, youtube, etc. Pumps out 20 apps a year and sold 2 for 300K total. I interviewed him on my channel. Great story. probably has many vibecoding stories!
@emikes919 Awesome. Will check him out!
I recently developed and launched my product @FeedLoom. It’s not fully vibe-coded, but about 90% of the code was written using Cursor, and I love these new-gen tools. I built it within a week, which saved a ton of effort. But that remaining 10% of our manual work makes all the difference when building something meaningful.
The future isn’t years away. With just a few prompts, we may soon be able to create entire products.
i've shipped 3 ios apps mostly vibecoded with claude — not "zero code knowledge" but definitely "couldn't have built these without ai" territory. i'm a designer who can read code but wouldn't call myself a developer
the apps: speakeasy (speakeasy.studio.gold) — article-to-audio converter. astrologica (astrologica.app) — ai daily horoscope podcast. wordplay (wordplay.studio.gold) — daily cryptic crossword
profitable? speakeasy has paying subscribers. the others are earlier but retention is strong. so "profitable" is a stretch but "revenue generating" is accurate
honestly the vibecoding part was the easy bit. the hard parts were all the non-code stuff: app store review process, marketing, figuring out pricing, onboarding flows, push notification timing. ai doesn't help much with any of that yet
my take: vibecoding gets you to a working product. everything after that is the same grind it always was. the code is maybe 20% of shipping something real 🤷