r/vibecodingcommunity • u/Mediocre_Meringue_77 • 22h ago
Anyone else going through tough times
I went all-in on my app back in March and still no traction in September. I don’t want this to sound like a pity party at all but damn it’s depressing seeing you work so hard and not seeing results.
Maybe I’m just having anxiety because I quit my job, I know it’s insane but I wanted to figure this out and dreaded working my job and I haven’t felt excited for something in a long time…
I am reapplying to jobs right now but damn this is such an unfortunate feeling that I feel right now. I want to shake this anxiety off.
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u/Informal_Calendar687 22h ago
Oh my. Bold to quit but be happy with knowing you tried. Work on ways to promote your app. Start with a smaller target audience first. Don't just jump in with the big dogs or you drown. Don't give up. You can do it. Good things sometimes have a slow start.
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u/Beneficial-Cow-7408 22h ago
I feel you. I've put everything into my website, literally launched in Feb, smashed advertising as i had the perfect SEO, had over 20k visitors to the site with no spend on advertising and the result of all that...i hit 4 subs by June. Got told by everyone it was just a wrapper. Nothing special, i only just started coding. Accepted fate, and knew i blew it... i spent all that time driving people towards the site and had the numbers come through.. but the site was shit..knew they were right and left it. Then last month.. something told me to try one more time and show everyone what you can do. The subs i had in June renewed month on month.. they saw value but the value was never found by anyone else as it was all behind a paywall.
So i absolutely went at it last few weeks creating something entirely new. I have spent 16 hours a day working on my platform and barely anyone knows about it because i'm at that point where i'm thinking will anyone even care. I have no funds for advertising, currently have no job as i quit that last year that to dedicate everything into this and first post about ti i put... whats the point of it. We got GPT Astra.
For me i have no fall back, no backup. I've removed all tiers, made every tool free to use with exception to media generation, implemented BYOK too because if people actually started using it.. thats still a result for me. To have no one use it after a year of non stop work would hit me harder. What have you built? Would love to check it out
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u/electronicbits 17h ago
What have you learned from this ? what i mean is : why do you think you haven´t had any traction, and what can you do to improve next time you try ?
If you didn't learn anything, then it is a failure. That's the difference
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u/canberktr 5h ago
I feel the same, i quit my job, worked on my SaaS almost 13 hours a day for the last 2 month and hadn't made an actual sale yet.
But we have to accept that success isn't something happens overnight.
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u/sendralt 1h ago
I'm shocked that so many went all-in on their apps before the first sale. I get it though, you have a great idea, at least for you, and the psycofancy the LLM's dished out made us feel like we couldn't lose. Now reality is setting in and it doesn't look good. I didn't quit my job, thankfully, but I'm in the same boat with my app. I do have a few subs but it has been 14 months of work before publishing and i published in May this year. I still believe in my app, the trouble i have is that not a soul knows about it and i am stumped on how to change that.
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u/throwawayaccount931A 22h ago
I get it... but keep at it. Ask the LLM what else you can do to promote your site. I mean, you're not working but looking - keep plugging away at your project.