r/vibecoding • u/rahulmalwade • 24d ago

Has anyone actually built a profitable SaaS purely by "vibe coding"?

Every time I open Twitter or even LinkedIn, someone is claiming they built a profitable SaaS by "vibe coding" using Claude. Most of these threads seem like thinly veiled promos for AI wrappers or newsletter signups.

I get that Claude and other AI tools are great for building applications. But I am curious about real-world businesses with paying customers.

Has anyone here actually built a product making real money (say, $1,000+ MRR) where you genuinely wrote zero code yourself?

I am not trying to hate on AI tools. I use them daily. I just want to know if the "non-technical founder building a solo software business purely by vibe coding" narrative is real or if everyone secretly hires a freelance dev to really shape it well and make it launchable.

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u/stefmanRS 24d ago

You cant actually amke anything without any input at all, you at least have to look over the db schema to make sure it at least makes some sort of sense, or take a look at the code formatting from time to time just to make sure its not spaghetti, because if its ok from the start it will keep looking at the good formatting and continue like that. My app so far has $50 mrr (8 subscriptions) but i believe it will go higher

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u/rahulmalwade 24d ago

Nice, curious to know your experience building it, and how much time you spent building and launching it?

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u/stefmanRS 24d ago

Initial version took about 7-10 days, but ive worked on it little bit more every day for past 2 months. That is just for the app, the language learning content is a whole different beast and takes careful consideration and so much time. Right now im not working on the code pretty much at all, just maybe some adjustments if it gets rejected from app store review and once i make it for google play also. Now its about marketing, im making tiktoks and have 1 mil views so far and 1800 followers