Vibecoding CRUDs

Vibe coding is here to stay. I’d been worried it might be a fad, but I talked to the founder of an infrastructure company who’s in a position to see how well vibe-coded apps are doing, and he said a lot of them are making money. He said if I’d asked him 6 months ago he couldn’t have said for sure, but that he was now confident vibe coding was going to stick. And right now is the worst it’s ever going to work, so if it works now it will just keep working better. – @paulg

The comments from many devs to that tweet were—as expected—ridicule. It won’t work. It’s code slop. It won’t be secure.

It’s funny why we tend to assume only complex SaaS (which vibecoding sucks at) makes money. When in fact, many profitable SaaS are simple CRUD apps which serve a niche, address a painpoint, people pay willingly, and most importantly, where vibecoding is good enough at.

Wild how everyone chases complexity when money-makers are just simple apps solving real problems.

I’m trying one now, with my custom support SaaS for canned replies.

Just a CRUD app for people to save their answers to frequently asked questions, and to copypaste it in their customer support responses.

Boringly simple.

So simple, so boring, sometimes I even doubt it will work.

But the SEO seems to suggest otherwise.

Can’t wait to finish it and launch to prove the theory!