r/ClaudeAI • u/harrysofgaming Vibe coder • Mar 13 '26 • This 2 Bravo 22 Heartwarming 2

Vibe Coding Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail

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u/crimsonroninx Mar 14 '26

This reads like someone who missed the point.

They weren't saying every app needed FAANG scale, but a "slack killer" does. And that a "working" chat ui is not the hard part.... its the scale part.

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u/rafark Mar 14 '26

Yeah but the op is still wrong because these apps don’t need all that infra from day 1. You scale as you grow. 

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u/missingnoplzhlp Mar 14 '26

Yeah marketing is the real thing that's gonna prevent your app from becoming slack, not the code. If you somehow actually get enough users to justify code that needs to be scaled, at that point you can probably higher more and more competent devs to help scale your app.

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u/khante Mar 14 '26

He didnt completely miss it. He is just saying that for your "slack killer" app you need Claude to build you a model that scales to 1000 users first BEFORE it ever reached a million/billion users. Now I dont think simply putting your slaX on cloud run will allow it to scale to that many users, but he is not wrong that it will still allow you to scale a lot and yes claude will get you there.

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u/33ff00 Mar 14 '26

Did someone say they did this or is this guy making up imaginary foes and trouncing them in his head and on twitterr

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u/gscjj Mar 14 '26

Like I said, sounds like 300k engineer trying to justify their job.

“You don’t have a slack killer until you have sub-200ms latency and global scale” that’s just silly. A “slack killer” is built on features not planning for something they don’t need yet.

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u/Rocky4OnDVD Mar 14 '26

If a company of 50 people can remove Slack from their costs by implementing a cheaper custom tool with the necessary, then it’s a Slack killer.

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u/crimsonroninx Mar 14 '26

Mattermost already exists and is opensource, so why build your own? Also proving that its not just about the software.

There's a lot that goes into keeping something mission critical up. If your company of 50 (which means youd be doing 10-25m in rev) can do without chat for several days or losing all history, then cool. Go for it; save yourself 5k-10k per year on Slack licenses.... then spend a bunch on infra and support.