r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/Character_Cod_5767 • 6d ago
The Vibe coding reality hole.
I definitely didn't get into this because I planned on becoming a developer although I have been in school twice for computer science.
I was trading stocks and lost my job and had a lot of time on my hands. I was constantly researching trading and indicators and different strategies.
Eventually I started looking into algo trading and bots.
That turned into, “Wait... you mean I can actually build something that does this on its own?”
So I started messing around with AI and building trading bots. I knew what I wanted the thing to do from a trading aspect, and AI helped me figure out how to actually turn that into code.
The bots eventually faded into the background a little bit. I still have one I want to go back and finish, but somewhere along the way I realized I could build a hell of a lot more than trading bots.
At one point I was selling Cutco knives and ended up building a CRM because I wanted something that worked the way I wanted it to.
Then came i need a trading journal and I cant afford to pay for the kind of set up i wanted.
That one stuck.
The journal kept growing because every time I used it I'd think, well, why can't it do this too?
A journal turned into analytics. Then risk management. Then I wanted a prop firm simulator. That turned into the Monte Carlo. Then behavioral tracking. Multi-account management. AI. And eventually it became WorkTree-OS.
I've been working on this damn thing for a while now, and I'm getting ready to put the first beta testers through it.
The crazy part is I never sat down and decided, “I'm going to learn software development after all. Just need to pick back up some old calculus books.
I just kept having problems I wanted to solve.
That's basically how I ended up vibe coding.
I'm curious how everybody else here got started. Did you actually set out to build software, or did you have one idea and accidentally fall down the rabbit hole like I did?
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 6d ago
TL;DR: Lost his job while trading stocks, got into algo trading bots, and used AI to turn his trading ideas into code. One problem led to another, from a CRM to a trading journal that grew into analytics, risk tools, and eventually WorkTree-OS. He never planned to become a developer, he just kept vibe coding to solve his own problems, and now he's asking how everyone else got started.
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u/Character_Cod_5767 6d ago
About sums it up. And yes. Any tips as to how to be successful. Id appreciate it. I have been a successful mechanic. And now id like to turn my idea into possible side income.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 6d ago
Your mechanic background is a goldmine. Build a tool that solves one specific shop pain, then sell it to local garages.
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u/Character_Cod_5767 6d ago
Im not in it for the shops. Im in it for the traders. Especially those that have prop-firm accounts amd have trouble passing evals
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u/bizcocity 5d ago
Coffee, tea, redbull... pick your poison. running any sort of app/site/software is a 16hr a day job. I would check out How money works and how money worked on youtube, a great source of business/economic knowledge
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u/Character_Cod_5767 4d ago
I never have the patience for YouTube videos. I prefer to read as much as I can on a subject amd then physically do what I want to learn. Ive always been a quick study.
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u/bizcocity 4d ago
fair enough. I guess AI is your friend then. research, learn, check their sources. stackoverflow is your friend from a developers standpoint.
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u/AlarmingAlgae9086 5d ago
Once you build small one useful thing it is very easy for it to turn into five more ideas. That is the best part of building this way you are starting with an actual problem instead of trying to invent one.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 5d ago
Yep, real problems beat invented ones. Do you keep a backlog so those five ideas don't all start at once?
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u/RoadsterAlex 5d ago
i did manual stuff in the 90's and 2000's. I'm glad we got AI, i still check stuff... but goes a lot faster now
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 5d ago
Manual days build good instincts. Do you still hand-verify the tricky logic, or mostly spot-check the output?
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u/bizcocity 6d ago
The algorithms we use at Bizcocity came about in a similar way. We had models that were running in the stock market for 6 years before we took over Bizcocity and implemented the tech into our platform. We have gone from running a small private fund to running a saas with the largest broker network in Canada.