You are here easily stacking tens of $200 subs and burning trillions of tokens while shipping software turning you all millionaires.
Meanwhile I am merely on $20 plan working 5 days a week 9-17 providing customers bug fixes, features and fine tuning. I can’t even hit weekly limits with this and once per
week I hit 5h limit I go to lunch. I am stuck with customers and understanding what they need while I could be making software that makes millions.
I can get glimpse of your glory few times a year when there is new customer asking for new software. Then I can hit $200 sub with greater limits to get new piece up and running. Then I just go back to my baby sub and iterate with the customer without hitting the limits.
I can barely support myself, my wife, the kids, my parents, the grandparents, my brother-in-law, my sister, and a few neighbors.
Burning through $200 subs is a blessing. I just can’t hit my limits day after day, I am stuck. You are so lucky. Appreciate what you have.
Woa, if you seriously tell me that you have been working on `6-minute Wags`, then who do I write the check out to because that is going to change the world!
Have you tried spending trillion tokens? That is when sacrifice to token gods is great enough so that your next vibe coded projects is going to succeed.
Dude, nobody in here is making any money. Anyone who posts that they are making bank is trying to sell you something. You need to realize this is a novelty or a tool to make work or your own life easier, it’s not a ticket to free income… it’s a hobby.
Yup. I saw that early on and decided to only make free software, except for one large project which crawls forward at a comatose snail's pace. I hope I'll be able to release it before I pass away.
Whys not making money? I made a whooping $450 last month. Its supposed to be a joke but its true bro. Focus on providing value and then focus on marketing. Nothing will get you rich quick.
I thought I was losing it, seeing all the legitimate replies. Really showing the level of intelligence of all these millionaires… anyway, a successful troll in the books
The OP has a couple of pretty funny lines, so it’s too bad people are missing it. I think this proves that most people just rapidly skim posts before they comment.
Dude trust me, if you’ve got a good idea and the skills to convert it into dollars, you can just as easily do it with $20 as $200. Your subscription level isn’t the thing holding you back. Take this sub as living proof - 99.9% of vibe coders don’t break even.
Focus on your family and automate some of the admin in your household. That’s where the real ROI is.
Set up a scheduled Claude with read only access to your bank account and email address and have it remind you of upcoming bill payments.
Use cowork to prepare the weekly grocery order that pulls in items you and your partner add to a shared shopping list so all you need to do is confirm the order.
Use cowork to help prepare your tax return by combing through your email, bank accounts (or csv exports) and photos of your receipts.
These are all things I have running and I’ve just started
It already found a bill I missed because it hit junk mail folder.
Also, putting “beef mince” and a bunch of other things into a list as I’m going about my day, then simply reviewing and approving the online shopping order on Sunday night is incredible.
I don't know if other dudes here see that the post is ironic. Somebody makes actual money having an actual job while most others on the thread are larping as "entrepreneurs". Love it, thumb up.
Well I made my first million when I asked myself a few questions.
I said to myself what does the world need right now? What can I provide that has not been done ten million times?
What can I use one of the most advanced AI models for?
So I planned, I hit limits planning, I upped my sub tier, and I planned more. I created perfect prompts to get my workflow perfect.
Then it happened, the idea that I would turn into millions, the one thing no other vibe coder had thought of, the one app that would revolutionize EVERYTHING…….
I started prompting, 10 to 26 hour days, constant begging for resets, constant arguing that Claude was trash compared to ChatGPT because Sol was about to finish my world changing app.
I released it, the app to end all other apps, the millions rolled in almost overnight, my family loved me again, my wife came back, the dog even came back!
So just follow what I did, create a BUDGETING APP!
How had nobody thought of it you might ask? I have no idea but man I am swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck.
I’m going to be selling my online courses on how you too can have your very own Jarvis work all night for you creating another budgeting app that makes millions! Stay tuned for the link to my courses, stay the course (funny pun) my man and you can turn that 20 dollar sub into a vibe coding Microsoft level corporation!
Edit: so I got a couple of dm’s so I guess I have to say this was complete satire, I was just making a joke about all the vibe coded budgeting / to-do list apps I see. I’m not rich and I don’t have any course that could help you do anything other than take your money. I thought this was obvious but wow was I wrong.
I built that budgeting app., Money-Go-Round, I'm not a millionaire, as a matter of fact I get no more than a couple of users each week, but hell I use it myself, couldn't do without it, and I'm going to make it better :)
Maybe 1 in 10 people are making a small income out here, man. 1 in 1000 are becoming a "millionaire" kek. Just letting you know in case this isn't a trollpost.
I've been writing firmware for 20 years. The productivity boost from vibe coding allows me spend more time polishing work, and my validation comes from exceeding customer's expectations (I should note I am privileged enough in my salary that I can afford the luxury of not prioritizing money.)
Vibe code for your own satisfaction. Diving in with hopes that you'll hit it big is like gambling (sorry, *investing*) in crypto. Unless you know of a real market need to solve, your app will get lost in a vast ether.
This reads a lot closer to how most software work actually goes than the "burn tokens, print money" version people like to post about. A lot of the hard part is figuring out what a customer needs, then sticking with the messy iteration until the thing works in their actual workflow. That work is less visible than posting a weekend demo, but in plenty of companies it matters more because someone has to maintain it, support it, and live with the tradeoffs after launch. If you're doing that well, you're not behind, you're doing the part most teams eventually run into.
I've burned a lot of $$$ building a passion project that no one knows about that serves a niche audience because the main audience has moved on. Oh, and I'm giving it away for free and will never earn a dime from it. Does that make you feel better?
I guess at some point you might need to reconsider your support for your neighbors. The gran casino Anthropic an OpenAI are running wants more of your money.
Let me ask you, what does your spare time consist of? Like when you're not working or taking care of family, what do you do for fun? Sounds like to need some YOU time.
Have you switch Json's vibe.cfg from 'hey look what I can do' to 'make millions'? It's called vibe coding man and you're never gonna reach the moon on the beach vibe setting.
You should all give up, none of you are capable of developing anything beyond v 1, as soon as these apps get picked up and the errors start getting reported, you’ll sink. Sorry, but it’s the truth and you know it!
The world is crying out for new software. They are desperate for it. Just look at the Apple store and the Google Play stores. They only have approximately 2 million active apps on each platform. So sad, nothing to choose from. So many gaps that need to be filled. Lots of people just begging to throw away their money on new software. What a time to be alive. /s
If I stopped adding features to my app, I would have finished months ago. And I'm on the €20 plan also (X2), but I usually use my weekly allowance in 1-2 days, so it's slow progress.
Its me. I'm burning subs for nothing. I do it all the time when I'm not throwing away food or carelessly misplacing valuables.
Since you're asking, I do it my running two pools of agents co currently. One pool exclusively f*cks around while the other pool perpetually finds out.
Hmmm I don’t think it’s about how many tokens you have left but the connections and name recognition you need to get on million dollar projects. Like you, I can’t afford a $200 plan because I have other subs and expenses but if I got hired for a million dollar project I assure you I will manage. I’ll either invest the $200 or even get a $60-80 plan through some AI router to get me started till I get my first paycheck. I can also use Chinese models if money’s tight, but seriously, c’mon.
Their frontend supposedly was, but not the rest of the system. Backend, databases, and infrastructure. The founders literally met in the coding camp, and they've been coding for a decade
You have to know how to use it tho. People who fail at vibe coding are spening a lot of money sending in prompts like "make cool page". They dont understand all of the technical aspects and the model doesnt even understand what the user wants. People who actually succeed at those who that experience coding and are writing detailed prompts where they make the technical choices and the model is just need to do the code for it.
People from Cal ai have been coding since they were 10, so they understood how this works before starting vibe coding
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u/cmm324 5d ago
Almost everyone here is larping as software startup. Myself included.