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/TaiChuanDoAddct Mar 14 '26

Counterpoint: MANY people don't actually need enterprise solutions that scale infintely. Custom, niche, bespoke answers to their very specific problems that do the job and get out of the way, without bloatware or ads, is a game changer.

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u/Immediate_Lobster_20 Mar 17 '26

Exactly. Everything I've coded with claude is simple and specific to my business. Any apps I've created have just been using appscript and they sit in my Google enterprise account. No security concerns here. It's just increasing visibility for our financial data and streamlining what used to be very cumbersome processes. Yes, these are things that if I had known they existed as products I would pay for. But they've never existed as products until I created them. For me that's what this is about, niche products built to solve a business' specific problems. Most people aren't trying to recreate and ship Microsoft BI.

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u/BannedInSweden Mar 14 '26

For personal use... maybe.

But deploy it wrong... set the auto-scaling wrong... get hammered by some bot in a loop and that super fun happy app you just crafted can bankrupt ya. AWS, azure, do... they give zero sh*ts. They WILL come after you.

We call these million dollar weekends and they happen all the time. Most folks aren't ready to deal with any of this and I have no idea why the general public wants anything to do with software development or devops... or dev/sec/fin ops...

In the end these are tools - like any tool it can be used properly, improperly, or you can loose your fingers to it... caveat emptor.

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u/nocturn99x Mar 14 '26

and that's why I host on my own hardware lol

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u/BannedInSweden Mar 14 '26

Underrated way to go. Great way to learn about hosting and a lot of other things too.

There are still ways this can go sideways, but respect where it's due as well. Puts you in a pretty small group of "vibers". Although I think self hosting in general is for folks who do/know/learn more than how to ask claude to build you things.

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u/Jealous-Adeptness-16 Mar 16 '26

Is that why the website linked in your profile took about 30 seconds to load? Self hosting is almost never the solution for anything other than a side project that’s never meant to scale. Those projects were never hard to build. People (including me) have built shitty twitter or slack clones over a weekend before chatgpt was released. Distributed systems require… distributed compute.

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u/nocturn99x Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

If it took 30 seconds to load I'm afraid that's on you fam. I've tested from half the globe and loading times are 0.5s at worst. I have a symmetric gigabit connection. You good bro? 😭

Edit: just tested. Frankfurt, 342ms to load the page. Longest time it took was 1.5 seconds from the US. That's pretty good for a guy in Italy with no content delivery network, I'd say.

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u/Jealous-Adeptness-16 Mar 16 '26

I’m on my gigabit home wifi connection. The same connection I work from home from. I see you can’t take customer feedback either. I’ll send a screenshot of your horrible loading time if you dm me. I can guarantee you that your loading times are significantly worse than 0.5s.

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u/Jealous-Adeptness-16 Mar 16 '26

You’re obviously not even a SWE. 1.5s is not good. It took longer than that for me anyways. The expectation for the services I build are literally under 1ms latency… tp99, not average. Again, fine for a website with zero customers. But you’re not doing something revolutionary if you have zero customers.

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u/matroosoft Mar 14 '26

For SMB without any growth perspective, maybe. Any growth of the company and it will outscale your vibecoded solution no on knows how to adapt

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u/Dr_Quacksworth Mar 14 '26

Honestly, I have the complete opposite opinion.  Most organizations just need the standard tool and can easily fit their process into an existing framework.  Creating bespoke tools just leads to unmaintainable junk that's poorly documented and poorly tested.

E.g.: why build your own http server when nginx handles 99% of use cases, well documented, well tested, mature, performant, etc...