[Bishonen88]

That's what I was thinking as well after letting Claude do a godoist clone in a few vibe coding sessions. Literally got most features I care about with a ui similar to todoist with all the bootstraping done. Deploying to my nas later this week and cancelling my subscription.

It's way past the point of "just" doing MVPs or simple proof of concepts. I'm talking about user auth, dynamic input parsing, calendar views, tags, projects, history of events and more, given a few prompts.

[Denzel]

Would you mind sharing the repo?

[Bishonen88]

Sure, why not. I'll drop a repo over the weekend

[LilBytes]

Thank you. I'll keep an eye out too. I've not seen any good examples of 'good vibe coded products' yet.

Good being a difficult term to define but most of not all of us here know what I mean

[Bishonen88]

https://github.com/bishonen/plusone

Expectation management: Please remember that this is a result of 8 vibe coding sessions (~15 minutes each).

[Denzel]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Looks like you have considerable experience with vibe coding to be able to produce that in 2 hours.

[Bishonen88]

While I do have some experience with vibe coding, this could've been done by my wife who has little tech knowledge. That's the scary part.

My flow was to open 3 terminals, ask AI to work on some feature in each, check how it looks in the frontend and if it didn't look/work quite right, I asked it again. Once I deemed the feature OK, I just cleared the context and went on to a new task. The 3 terminals ate through claude $20 within 10-15 minutes.

I wonder if this breaks at some point when the codebase is more complex/large, or does not. If it doesn't, then the future is scary, because everyone can recreate many of the SAAS products within hours. What's the moat for Todoist for example? Without AI, it would've taken quite some effort, know-how and time to get something similar up and running. I reckon that with the $100 plan, I could have made it almost identical to it. Perhaps I could even create mobile app builds as well (react native perhaps). What stops me from then offering this for 1/5 the cost of the real app?

And that's established apps. Imagine how easy/trivial it is to clone something that's new, and that was possibly vibe coded itself. E.g. someone posts to HN "Show HN: I made xyz". It looks great, it works great, it has a great idea. Then we take LLM's and recreate it within 4 hours. Poof! There's no reason to pay for it instantly.

That's what I find depressing, though - having a great idea and using LLM to create a great product, will not be enough. People will be able to clone everything. At least that's what my little experience with claude tells me. And now let's just wait 1 more year and see how good claude code 2.0 and co will be. I reckon sooner than later, 0 tech-knowledge will be needed to get apps up and running.

That's why it's time to pivot to some other role in the near future ;)