Dedicated Mobile Apps For Vibe Coding Have So Far Failed To Gain Traction (techcrunch.com) 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: While many vibe-coding startups have become unicorns, with valuations in the billions, one area where AI-assisted coding has not yet taken off is on mobile devices. Despite the numerous apps now available that offer vibe-coding tools on mobile platforms, none are gaining noticeable downloads, and few are generating any revenue at all. According to an analysis of global app store trends by the app intelligence provider Appfigures, only a small handful of mobile apps offering vibe-coding tools have seen any downloads, let alone generated revenue.
The largest of these is Instance: AI App Builder, which has seen only 16,000 downloads and $1,000 in consumer spending. The next largest app, Vibe Studio, has pulled in just 4,000 downloads but has made no money. This situation could still change, of course. The market is young, and vibe-coding apps continue to improve and work out the bugs. New apps in this space are arriving all the time, too. This year, a startup called Vibecode launched with $9.4 million in seed funding from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. The company's service allows users to create mobile apps using AI within its own iOS app. Vibecode is so new, Appfigures doesn't yet have data on it. For now, most people who want to toy around with vibe-coding technology are doing so on the desktop.
The largest of these is Instance: AI App Builder, which has seen only 16,000 downloads and $1,000 in consumer spending. The next largest app, Vibe Studio, has pulled in just 4,000 downloads but has made no money. This situation could still change, of course. The market is young, and vibe-coding apps continue to improve and work out the bugs. New apps in this space are arriving all the time, too. This year, a startup called Vibecode launched with $9.4 million in seed funding from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. The company's service allows users to create mobile apps using AI within its own iOS app. Vibecode is so new, Appfigures doesn't yet have data on it. For now, most people who want to toy around with vibe-coding technology are doing so on the desktop.
Well, duh... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Problem with vibe-coding on a phone/tablet (Score:1)
The vibrations run down the battery.
Mobile Phones (Score:3)
Who the fuck wants to use a cell phone to interact w/ code on the regular !?
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If you're 'vibe coding', you're not interacting with the code anyway.
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But even if you somehow manage to keep your sanity while never sanity checking the code, or looking at the logs, or having it write, or run against unit tests... hopefully you have some kind of, you know, PLAN laid out. One that is - at the very least - more detailed than can be easily, or usefully navigated on a phone screen.
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No, I haven't. The code that LLMs generate is suspicious at best. But that's the thing with so-called 'vibe coding': it's something that non-programmers do. They iterate using the prompts, not by taking the code generated by the LLM and fixing it up themselves.
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I spent all day Monday trying to get it to generate an arbitrarily sized T2 Penrose tile so that I didn't have to do the math. I still wound up having to learn how to do the math. I guess I just don't v
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just keep pasting in the errors, ad nauseam, and pray it eventually accidentally produces working code?
No, it’s the fun of hitting one mole over the head with a hammer, only to have another pop up complete with the entertaining ambiance it provides. If you don’t mobile game you won’t get it.
Not according to my manager (Score:2)
who tried firing all of us because he knew how to enter a prompt in Cursor
Oh my... (Score:2)
Were they vibe-coded as well?
The only people who believe... (Score:3)
...that vibe coding is useful are the hypemongers, clueless wannabe techies who believe they can effortlessly get rich and clueless investors who understand nothing about tech but are desperate for the next big thing
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...that vibe coding is useful are the hypemongers, clueless wannabe techies who believe they can effortlessly get rich and clueless investors who understand nothing about tech but are desperate for the next big thing
I can vibe code a manned moon landing mission. We’re gonna need some astronauts and rockets and stuff, now DO IT!