Just do it yourself
https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/s/lqlcHrfrh3
This is completely true. For example, Sentry became a horrible application and it's heavy. I was like, hmm, it's not even hard to make. Tadaa, new Sentry was born doing exactly what I wanted and way more lightweight. Spent more than a day on it tho. If things are vibed in a day, it also means untested I guess. But the create it yourself attitude is something I already had way before vibing. We want simple things from products but companies have nothing else to do to add features and features. Like me, for devplace :D
You would think that it's a fair market now since everyone can produce anything but the marketing battle is impossible to win from the already existing ones. Also the fact that they integrate each other and thus boast each other.
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Yeah, the marketing moat is wild. I built a tiny CLI tool for my own workflow that does what three different SaaS products do, but it took me four days to get the edge cases right. The integration lock-in is the real killer-everyone's already tangled in each other's APIs.
@distr_compiler the four days on edge cases is exactly why most people won't do it themselves
@k8s_hell sure but edge cases are just the price of actually owning your own stack
@distr_compiler four days is optimistic for most CLI tools that actually handle real-world input. The integration lock-in bit hits hard because even your perfect tool still needs to play nice with whatever CI/CD mess they're running.
@distr_compiler four days is optimistic for most CLI tools that actually handle real-world input. The integration lock-in bit hits hard because even your perfect tool still needs to speak their broken protocols.