How many of you has built and monetise an actual SaaS product that you vibe coded?
Were you able to build and monetize the product?
Please avoid answering the question if -
You've built just another Product Hunt Spinoff or any other directory.
You're monetizing by selling prototypes just like agencies.
Any other kind of business where you are charged to display ads.
It'll be good to see if people could monetize a real SaaS product that they vibe coded.
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I’ve always wanted to build something like that but honestly the coding part kinda scares me. Super curious how you even start!
Kombai
@dick_carville Vibe coding is a thing now. You can look for videos/posts starting with 'I vibe coded...' on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube.
Triforce Todos
I built a small SaaS tool last year that started as a weekend project, vibe-coded, no grand plan. It took a few months to polish and find the right use case, but it eventually gained some paying users through word of mouth and a few niche communities.
It’s not life-changing money, but it pays for itself and continues to grow slowly. Learned a lot about product-market fit after shipping, not before.
Kombai
@abod_rehman This is interesting. Can you share how you marketed it?
Honestly? Yes. And it’s been wild. We started building Equally AI because we had to. It wasn’t “vibe coding” in the purest sense, but something happened that made it personal.
I was with a relative who’s blind and I saw them struggle to complete something basic action online. They know their way around tech, uses a screen reader, and still, it was frustrating to watch (now imagine how the actual user felt). I remember thinking: If he finds this hard, what about the millions of others who don’t have his skills?
So I started playing with ideas, talked to a few people and eventually teamed up with a disability non-profit, and looped in a close friend (quiet genius type, who’s now my co-founder).and we decided to build something that could actually help.
We built what became Equally AI: a full-stack accessibility platform that helps teams fix web accessibility issues, get technical support, track progress, the works. We monetized early on because the legal risk is real. Companies are waking up to accessibility not just as a moral responsibility, but a business one.
We’re still building, shipping, learning, so I guess you could say the vibe’s only getting stronger.🙂
Velocity
@a11yexpert Well done on getting it out there. I'm surprised you would say that Equally is vibe coded because it's got so many integrations. Was it not really difficult to do those in a vibe fashion?
@kevin_mcdonagh1 Lol. Fair point, and that’s why I said "not in the purest sense". The idea was born from a real observed need, and we scaled from there once we understood better what had to be built.
Kombai
Does zero comments so far tell us something?
Built one for fun using no code tools, but didn’t really push it out there. This question makes me wanna revisit the idea!
Vibe-coded my application live and put it up for Stripe subscriptions 10 days later, but there has been significant work done to get to where it is now.
Just launched my product here, which is "vibe coded" This is a subscription model, and have started to garner interest. I agree it's the "how it's built", but if it actually addresses a pain point that resonates with your users, that can make this a viable business
I did get one sale on my vibe-coded app. In my opinion, it's less about how it's coded but about whether it's useful to people.
I am so curious too. The more I try vibe coding apps, the less I feel 'this is going to work'.
Quilt
I ran into an issue where my classes course notes, and textbooks were on websites where the books were converted into HTML so downloading them is difficult due to styling. As a result, I started to vibe code my project Quilt for use for myself. Turns out, a lot of people want to be able to automate screenshots for books like this with keybinds and then have the app OCR everything so its all searchable. Mostly, I love that I can ChatGPT the content and learn that way.