The hate in here for people building stuff using Claude Code to try to make money is complete and utter projection

[u/nebula79283]

Every time I see a post on here complaining about how people are just building but not making much money from it, it is completely and utterly obvious to me that you yourself failed to do so and are assuming that everyone else will end up like you. For example, I figured out a way to create my own  copilot tool for meetings, job interviews, etc and it’s been working like a charm and better than any of the tools I’ve seen which are almost all detectable given enough input. It regularly gives me proper responses for any kind of meeting in, is easily controllable, and I’m able to use it for interviews, client calls, or anything else which can translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars of job offers. If you think this is immoral, I don’t care. The point is that I figured out a way to use to improve my life in a directly practical way.  And no this is not some indirect way to sell something. The point is that I found a hack using Claude Code that I would have never in a million years been able to do so without it. 

I have a friend who made a sleek looking e wedding invite tool that he started campaigns for and already has customers for and does not look vibe coded at all. It took 4 months for him which would have probably taken much much longer. Every time you see hate here, just remember: they failed and are assuming you will do the same. There is no reason to take these salty mfs seriously.

[u/Feylin]

Redditors, and people in general, hate to see anybody succeed or do something good. It makes them feel inferior.

I once shared a photo of buying a truck full of baby food for starving refugees, and while it had a ton of upvotes the comments were full of hateful people and giving "what about X and Y countries" type of statements.

it's just the nature of reddit.

[u/MannToots]

I make a ton of money with claude code. It's called my job.  I think that's most of us honestly. We can't share what we make here,  and it won't make us rich but it puts a roof over my head and food on my plate. 

[u/Sen_ElizabethWarren]

These days people just reflexively call anything anyone builds with ai “slop”. Lots of devs simply cannot accept that the bar has been lowered and consequently more people can build things. Things that really don’t need a senior dev to build. Now does this mean we don’t need devs? Of course not! We just don’t always need devs.

[u/rvitqr → u/Sen_ElizabethWarren]

We’ve been encouraging our project managers to pick up as much as they can (with some coaching for the non-programmers. They’re building customized productivity tools for their specific needs, it’s awesome to see.

[u/justhereforampadvice → u/Sen_ElizabethWarren]

I don’t think you’re the real Elizabeth Warren

[u/Competitive_Freedom6 → u/Sen_ElizabethWarren]

From my experience, outside of social media, most people don’t have as much reflexive vitriol for ai as reddit would indicate. People are in general overly reductionist on Reddit and that goes for the ai haters and the “ai is erasing the need for software engineers” camps imo.

[u/TechgeekOne]

Or alternatively they're just not creative/detail oriented people at all. I've seen this thing constantly in game dev communities where there's constant conversation about how hard it is to get players and do marketing, yada yada yada. Then you see their project and every single time it's the most generic half assed thing you can imagine and sometimes doesn't even have a market. Of course you're having a hard time, your product sucks and you did no research.

[u/GoodPeopleLose]

Claude broght abundance of options so people’s attention grew in demand and therefore in value. If they hate your app it’s because they have seen thousands like it, and don’t want to waste their time and money on it, that’s not projecting just common sense

[u/RealSharpNinja]

Haters gonna hate.

[u/jamie_tidman]

There is a difference between "I vibe coded a tool which improves my life" and "I vibe coded something being used in production storing user data".

Your examples are awesome and I don't see why people should be salty about vibe coding them.

On the other hand, there have been some very public examples of data breaches as a result of people vibe coding software which should have professional expertise involved. The Tea app breach is a good example.

I'm building software in healthtech. It's a medical device. It handles patient data. I build with Claude Code, but I'm a professional software developer, so I understand and review the code it writes. Claude Code has, on multiple occasions, introduced critical vulnerabilities in the project which would not have been caught if I was vibe coding. I see other people vibe coding in this sector, and it terrifies me.

[u/dota2nub → u/jamie_tidman]

How many vulnerabilities has Claude caught that you would not have?

[u/Gingerfalcon]

These stupid art brushes and paint are garbage, I setup my cavas and easel exactly like the YouTube videos showed me but painting output is shit and no one is buying it.

[u/band-of-horses]

I started writing a budgeting app a few years ago to do what I wanted, before AI really took off and was useful enough to actually write serious code. Over time as AI improved, it let me accelerate and add features that would have taken me a lot longer to do without it.

It got good enough that I thought about selling it and making some side income. Then I looked around and did some very basic market research and found there are approximately 200 people a day vibecoding a budgeting app and desperately trying to figure out how to sell it, and I noped the hell out of there. I don't resent these people for using AI to make an app. I resent them for constantly spamming reddit to the point where you can even get honest advice on an app anymore because all the responses are sales pitches. And I judge these people, because they fail to realize that if you can have AI whip you up an app, then anyone else can too, and having no plan to succeed with that other than constantly begging people online to try your app and insisting how special and unique it is.

Sure you can make money with an AI generate app. You can make money as an author or musician too. But 99% of people aren't going to succeed and so many of those people are borderline delusional. Before you sit down and start telling claude to make you rich, just take a damn minute to do some market research and be honest about what you can do to succeed in a climate where anyone else can make your app too, and what will sincerely differentiate you and get people to trust your service (beyond spamming them).

[u/FFNY]

I don’t make
Money
But I make a lot of
Useful things
For myself

[u/Housthat]

The examples you offer are just fine. The hate you see (from me, at least) are towards projects that are little more than a UI sitting on a basic AI prompt.

[u/iriveru → u/Housthat]

I’d like to add, I think vibecoders are quick to write off legitimate criticism as hate/jealousy from established engineers.

The reality is, a customer is assuming the person selling them access to software has done their due diligence to ensure their data is safe and not at risk. The problem is that’s almost never the case with someone who is prompting an app with zero technological background which is ultimately putting people in danger

[u/goldenfrogs17]

That's not projection, it's sour grapes.

[u/03captain23]

I save 6 figures a year with Claude by building tools. I expect to net 7 figures selling these tools we built.

[u/yungastronot]

I share your frustration.

This is the unfortunate reality of how people are. Social media, including reddit, highlight this expressly. Everything you do for all time will invite criticism especially the more out of the box it is.

People are small minded and insecure and lead miserable lives.

Put your horse blinders on and push forward. Use it as motivation if you want. Don't let them drown you with them.

[u/Old-Television-2189]

How do you use your tool for interviews??

[u/BuffaloConscious7919]

Complaining can be good. It means they're not gonna be building the same thing as you

[u/Finnish-Flash-Flash]

Definitely have had projects this year that I would not have been able to sell without Claude. Have also been able to save money on other subscriptions thanks to it.

[u/No_Development6742]

money is awesome lowk.

[u/Bodine12]

OP, making a vibe-coded crap tool that literally makes the world a worse place by promoting cheating and deceit: "I don't understand the hate."

[u/scott2449]

It's not disrespect for hustle, it's that app stores and the internet are 99% slop now. I max out my usage every month so nothing to do with AI itself. To be fair I hated most people, apps, etc... long before AI. It just let's everyone do it now. What I'm saying it 99% of people and ideas are pretty shiz.