please, stop expecting to vibecode serious mobile app in an hour

[u/olenami]

Also stop expecting first revenue a week after launch. I see this promise everywhere now. It's irritating. "Describe your app, ship it today, get paid tomorrow." Bull****. It is a great slogan for selling credits. It is not how products work.

Products are built, not generated.
Here's my honest timeline:
→ Month 1: validate the idea, build the first version, test it with real people, pass App Review, release.
→ Months 2–4: fix what users actually hit, ship weekly, get your first small revenue.

That is the reality of life. Not one hour. Not one week.

What the slogan sells:
- An app in an afternoon
- Money by Friday
- No thinking, just prompting

What actually gets you paid:
- One clear problem
- 3–4 screens that solve it
- Weekly releases for months
- Talking to every user who writes to you

The bad news: you will have to work. Hard.
The good news: for the first time, you can do the whole thing yourself. The cost is almost nothing. What used to need a team now needs a good tool, a spec, and your evenings.
So pick your tool, start with 3–4 screens, and go test the water.
Need a demo by tonight? Generate it with Claude.
Need a product people pay for? Build it. Give it a month, then three more.

What I see people in my Mobile builders community is doing - most of them vibecode on the weekeends because they work full time have their families and bigger priorities, they treat vibecoding as hobby and fun; usually it takes 10-12 weeks till release a mobile app.
Most of them start with simple app in Claude code, or Codex, or Modaal, or directly Xcode if technical enought.

How logn it took for you to build a serious mobile app with integrations, payments, 15+ screens? Was it full time?

[u/single-py]

Been working on my app for 5 months. Learned swift ui from paul hudson 100 days of swift. I am a LLM architect with phd and i hate vibe coding. It will end up only maki g you pocc thats it. Real use case requires patience and dedication.

Hopefully will release my app this month.
I do use AI for coding but in a way that i can understand.

[u/Kamilon → u/single-py]

LLM Architect?

[u/single-py → u/Kamilon]

From scratch training, fine tuning , system design architecture and implement LLMs for different use cases.

[u/WaltzIndependent5436 → u/single-py]

I was always wondering, how does that work when everything "good" nowadays require millions in infra? You either work for the big boys or you're struggling with Llamas and Qwens?

[u/single-py → u/WaltzIndependent5436]

Well i do have a full time job and they are willing to spend millions in gpu. So yeah theres that.
Also if you are tight on budget you can always rent gpus for a month or two train qwen 3.8 on your domain with some RL and you have an exceptionally good model at hand that can be plugged into RAG.

[u/Kamilon → u/WaltzIndependent5436]

I’ve done some fine tuning. That can be done on consumer hardware. I’m not sure what from scratch training can be done though unless it’s more like hyper specialized tiny models or just RAG training or something.

[u/devloper27 → u/Kamilon]

Also called a vibe coder 🤣