There's only 50 weekends in a year. And there's a limited amount of years. I'd rather pay $10 and spend the weekend sailing.
Your app subscription is now my weekend project
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#132> And then on the afternoon of New Year’s Day, I vibecoded Jabber.
Might have a bit of difficulty naming it that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber.org).
Edit: I apparently wasn't at all the first to think of this (https://github.com/rselbach/jabber/issues/5).
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#133The vibe-coding part is most in discussion here, so it's easy to overlook the financial part. I build small web applications for my personal needs all the time by just regular programming, and I'm saving so much money by using them and not some proprietary app. Not even mentioning the advantages that it is completely bespoke, runs local and gives me peace of mind data-wise. Some wise man once said that personal compu…
I think it depends on the project size and how much your time is worth. Vibe coding might be able to save some time, depending on how well it can solve the problem without needing correction.
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#134First of all, I’m skeptical about these being free. Time isn’t free, and the tokens to make these projects certainly weren’t free. Second of all, all of these SaaS apps that don’t actually have a need for recurring charge probably should be paid one time. I don’t use Loom — I use CleanShot X and it was a one-time $30 payment and has a lot of great features I benefit from. I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $3…
> the value for “SaaS apps” without clear monthly costs should have always been under scrutiny.
It should have been, but the number of people qualified to offer proper scrutiny has been low, and those people have largely been occupied with bigger things. Or they were making those apps and had a conflict of interest.
The point is that now that vibe coding is at a level where it can identify and put together off-the-shelf components, and there are all these end users that don't really care about standardization (it's not like their SaaS products used open, interoperable standards in the first place), the ability to compete with those offerings has exploded.
Re: Your app subscription is now my weekend project
#135First of all, I’m skeptical about these being free. Time isn’t free, and the tokens to make these projects certainly weren’t free. Second of all, all of these SaaS apps that don’t actually have a need for recurring charge probably should be paid one time. I don’t use Loom — I use CleanShot X and it was a one-time $30 payment and has a lot of great features I benefit from. I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $3…
Biggest problem for SaaS is that people don't have enough time to be informed buyers. Like in theory you should be able to make a $0.99 annual SaaS app that provides some small service really well and sell it to a million people who need it, but that kind of sale is almost impossible. Most people are either missing out on great software they should be buying, or paying for software they don't need.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most apps rationale for subscriptions is "Ongoing development" without an option like jetbrains etc. to fall back to a perpetual license. In practice, regardless of whether an app needs ongoing development or not, this is the best way to try to guarantee continuous income and make a living off of a project I guess. Perhaps LLM's will force developers/companies to change their stance and to stop users from recreating…
One-time purchase software would become dramatically more sustainable if platform churn could be ground to a halt. Most types of software achieved peak usability and functionality somewhere between 5 and 25 years ago and there wouldn't be much reason for anybody to upgrade if their one-time purchases continued to work in perpetuity. A substantial number even prefer e.g. Word 2000 or Photoshop CS1 over their modern in…
> Instead, the reverse has happened and platform churn has risen to new highs, necessitating subscriptions.
... Even for desktop Linux users? I can't say I've felt it. I switched almost 4 years ago and it just keeps feeling better and better (in a "Luigi wins by doing nothing" kind of way).
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#137There's only 50 weekends in a year. And there's a limited amount of years. I'd rather pay $10 and spend the weekend sailing.
> There's only 50 weekends in a year.
That's sad for you. Do you spend the other two weekends dead for tax purposes?
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#138what is reel doing for osx that quicktime screen recording isnt getting you?
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#139> Reel does exactly what I wanted Loom to do: I can record my camera, I can move it around, and I get to trim the video after it’s done (I don’t remember being able to do that with Loom).
But that’s not what Loom is about.
It’s about streaming the video.
Before:
Capture something with likes of quicktime.
Transcode it so that it doesn’t take a few gigabytes. This takes considerable time and resources (though OBS can do it while recording, not after).
Upload somewhere to share. Wait while it is uploading.
Loom takes care of all those steps so when you press stop you can immediately share the link with someone.
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Hope other use-cases in the article are not as misrepresented as this one
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#140The people who pay for the apps vs people vibecode them are largely a different demographic. Linux is free, but most people don't mind to pay the Windows / macOS tax.
Exactly! It’s like I saw you selling pre-cut fruit for $7 so I decided to cut my own fruit every week.