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This is starting to encroach on Lovable, right? I do suspect the effect of these "vibe coded" apps on the SaaS market will be smaller than expected. Heavier-featured apps will have all sorts of functionality and polish a user won't even think to ask Claude to build. And the amount of effort to describe everything you need an app to do is higher than it seems.

Instead, I think this is going to open a new paradigm with an immense long-tail of hyper-niche fit-for-purpose business applications. There's so much small-scale work that happens in corporations that isn't common enough to be worth building a product to solve. But it's still a big time-saving to the departments/users if they can improve the process with a vibe-coded app!

Hyper-niche products come with some inherent risk that it’s not always profitable to maintain or develop them long-term.

With a mass market product leader you’re sacrificing a bit of customization for long-term stability.

Yes and it may open the door for new platforms with pure backend (BaaS) focus. With AI hallucinations, letting AI write backend code is not feasible due to security implications. Access controls still require a control panel which can be easily audited.

The frontend, however, is a completely different story.

It reminds me of a saying from one of my ex-colleagues "Frontend development is like building a house of cards. If it falls, nobody gets hurt. On the other hand, backend development is like building a house out of wine glasses."

AI and frontends are a natural fit, there is way more tolerance for brittleness 'move fast break things' on the frontend as the consequences of bugs are far less severe.

I am begging you to please discard this incredibly naive viewpoint before you get someone hurt. Please go learn more about secure development practices.

>There's so much small-scale work that happens in corporations that isn't common enough to be worth building a product to solve.

This is exactly the wall that modern software is up against. This is the reason why software devs feel LLMs suck and don't live up to the hype.

Software is written to offer a massive solution space, so that every problem a user can have is covered in some form or another. This is why so many software applications are these enormous hulking codesbases, and it follows that LLMs really suffer with massive hulking code bases.

But end users don't need that full solutions space, they only need a small sliver that covers their small problem space

LLMs aren't going to replace developers. They are going to reduce the demand for software. They may sound like the same thing, but there is a subtle difference.

i think it is the opposite. Users don't care about the backend, so as long as security is fine and DB queries are not too bad, it will be okay. You still need somebody oversee it, but the endpoints can be generated easily.

Any UI client, though, needs to look authentic or people will hate it. Maybe generic stuff like dashboards or internal tools is fine, but any premium product needs to have good looking front, and that is really tricky.