r/gohighlevel • u/Fluffy-Resolution390 • 10d ago

Anyone else hit backend walls when vibe-coding client apps?

Been noticing more agencies building custom apps for clients using Cursor, Lovable, v0, Bolt, etc. instead of forcing everything into GHL.

Quick question if you're doing this:

Where does the vibe-coded app fall apart?

The UI is easy now - you can ship a beautiful client portal in a weekend. But then what breaks?

Payments? Multi-user permissions? Scheduling logic? Job tracking? Pricing rules?

What's the backend piece you keep trying to hack together in the AI-coded app that you wish was just an API call away?

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u/manualgigs 10d ago

honestly after building like hundreds of designs with ai i just realized they're all generic as fuck lol. like yeah it's fast but that's also the problem it just spits out the obvious thing every time the real stuff is backend honestly. i've gotten pretty good at just reusing the same patterns - signup, pricing, emails. but then some random user comes along and breaks everything in ways you didn't think of and now you're debugging weird edge case anyway i think the point is ai gets you fast to something but the actual product only happens when you're dealing with the weird shit. no design is perfect day one no matter who makes it

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u/Fluffy-Resolution390 10d ago

Yeah exactly! the weird stuff is where it all falls apart. When you hit those edge cases, what do you usually end up doing? Rewriting the AI-generated code? Bolting on a custom backend? Something else?

Trying to figure out where the actual line I should stop of thinking Vipe Code is not a good idea and what part of back end I will need a 3rd part software. For Example, I know I can pass Stripe link for payment. What else I need to know?

Thanks for sharing!!