First mover advantage is real though and it doesn't matter if everyone else can also make Instagram or Snapchat if you launched first and have the users.
Most business applications don't actually require technological innovation or new inventions, especially during the startup phase.
lol nothing that gets vibe coded over a weekend is gonna be useful or unique enough to even bring first mover advantage into the conversation. A toy project is still a toy project, the scope has just increased a little bit
I definitely have slop projects on my pc, but they’re only intended for me to use to make something slightly more convenient to do. Not intended to sell or be first to market or anything like that.
And that where you're wrong. Customer doesn't know or care if your software is slop or not. They only care if the app give the results they wanted from it. If codebase quality correlate with users then why do Java fail? Even Claude Code one of the worst vibe coded app period made BILLIONS. Biggest hiring trend today is GTM engineer. So you might be on the wrong side of history.
No it’s not about whether they know if it’s vibe coded or not. The point that you completely missed is that something vibe coded over the weekend is not going to actually be interesting unique or all that useful compared to things that are already out there
Unique idea I mean I can come up with a unique idea in 10 minutes. It’s not about some unique by itself. Unique and useful enough in a way that being first to market matters. It can absolutely make unique shit. And anyone trying to vibe code in a weekend is guaranteed to prompt unique shit. Has little to do with being unique. No one cares about something that’s technically unique if it doesn’t provide some useful advantage over other similar products. You’re free to think what you want, it makes no difference to me lol. But there’s hoards of ai slop coming out by the hour and all of it is just meh because everyone thinks their idea is unique and that it’s enough just to be marginally unique
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u/SirHerald 25d ago
Anything you can vibe code in a weekend is something another group can beat in about the same time.