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Shayan
@ImSh4yy
Building in public.
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I've been seeing a ton of posts from indie hackers vibe coding their own alternatives to all kinds of products lately, to save I don't know, 50 bucks a month. And it surprises me because the math isn't mathing for me. AI made writing code a lot faster, sure. But it's still bad at product decisions, architecture decisions, and it definitely can't run the whole thing on its own: Research, plan, build, iterate, deploy, scale, keep it running, fix it when it breaks at 2am. So you're building a weekend version of something that has an entire team behind it. People with years of experience who get paid to make the best version of that thing. You're not getting anywhere close to that for the little money you were paying. And the time you spent on this could've gone into your own product which is priorities problem as a builder, especially if your competitors are moving even faster because of AI. On top of that, if AI is already good enough to do all of this, why does anyone need your product? Why not give up and move on?
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GLM 5.2 is currently available for dirt cheap through openrouter.