We're entering an era where the delivering of software is cheap. Basically any idea can have an MVP implemented by one or two people in just a month or two now. Very quickly the industry is learning what the next set of bottlenecks are, now that the bottleneck is no longer writing code.

Planning, design, management alignment, finding customers, integrating with other products, waiting for review, etc. Basically all the human stuff that can't be automated away.

Your comment reminds me to add building a support team to the list.

I agree. It's not like this project is disrupting an overpriced product/SaaS.

E.g. Buffer charges around $50 per year per social media account, which gives you an unlimited number of collaborating user accounts. And their single user plans are even cheaper.

I don't see how self-hosting would be a worthy investment of your time/effort in this case, unless you are in some grossly mismanaged organization where you have several devops engineers paid for doing literally nothing.

I see your point.

Last time I “vibe coded” something (internal) and I liked it because I couldn’t find external solution.

I admire coders who can finish their code into deliverable and usable piece.

Issue here is software abundance and ppl will start to hesitate due to absurd pile that they should evaluate.

It reminds me the statistics of ice cream global sales. People want certainty so they choose chocolate or vanilla :)

Therefore many good software projects will have a problem to find users.

The era of sharing some small programs that you made with others to benefit from is over imo.

You can just vibe code it yourself. If your requirements are narrower (eg. you only need support for 3 networks and not 12), you will end up with something that takes less time to develop (possibly less than a day), it will have a smaller surface for problems, and it will be much better tailored to your specific needs. If you pay attention to what the LLM is doing it will also be easier to maintain or extend further.

The surface for security vulnerabilities also gets narrower, since you "only" have to trust the LLM (which is still a huge ask, but still better than LLM + 1 random person).

I think the same way, I'd love a social media management tool, all of the ones I found were insanely expensive or not usable / had horrible usability issues. Pitching a product by telling me it's built quickly with AI does the opposite of convincing me to try it, even though I'm in the market for the solution offered.

Lots and lots of commercial software is being vibe coded. Big difference here is that at least the OP honest about it.

You can vibe code minor fixes to some annoyances including the clanker managing the whole fork/pull request flow if you want to contribute back for $20/mo on codex or claude (though $20 is the free trial tier there, codex is nearly so since last week but should be good enough... for now).

i did something similar, and i agree that 3 weeks sounds like a tight timeframe. You need to test what "vibe coding" delivers VERY thoroughly.

It can be done though. And i say it as a developer for 20 years now.

My gut is -- of course these concerns are valid, but, especially with "newfangled" software projects like this, I'd genuinely be surprised to see major quality differences between "human" and "vibe-coded."

I think what I mean by "newfangled" is; this isn't a low-level C memory managed bit flipping thing; this is the sort of thing that's already built on top of layer of layer of the cruft that the web already is, for better or worse.

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