eibrahim

the linktree-for-side-projects angle is interesting but i think the real problem is distribution, not organization. you can have a beautiful profile page with 10 ideas listed but if nobody sees it, the signal you get back is silence, and silence doesnt tell you anything useful.

the voting/interest signal idea is solid tho. the key question is whether the people voting are potential users or just other builders being polite. thats the trap Product Hunt fell into and its really hard to avoid.

Me too. I am exhausted by all the human slop constantly complaining about comments or posts being ai slop. I think I have had better conversations with bots the last few months lol.

This is everywhere not just HN: Reddit LinkedIn and twitter too. You are guaranteed to get 2 types of comments on anything you post: 1. Comments accusing you of AI slop (I call them human slop) 2. Comments by AI bots (surprisingly some are helpful and useful) at the end your bot will be a reflection of you.

Asshole humans will train asshole bots.

ps: I don’t even know how any of these sites can fight these bots. The LLMs are amazing and with openclaw and similar it’s impossible to detect bots vs humans.

The article makes a reasonable case for internal tools but glosses over the elephant in the room: if every company can vibe code their own B2B tools, what happens to the SaaS vendors? The ones that survive will be the ones where the distribution and ecosystem around the product matters more than the code itself. Nobody is going to vibe code their own Stripe or Salesforce, but the long tail of niche B2B tools is absolutely vulnerable.

They're right that nobody is vibe coding a full ERP system. But that's not really the threat. The threat is vibe coders building the 20% of Workday that 80% of small businesses actually use, and selling it for a fraction of the price. The market for small, focused tools that replace one expensive feature of a bloated enterprise platform is massive and growing fast.

The maker movement comparison is interesting but I think it breaks down in one key way: the marginal cost of software distribution is basically zero. 3D printing still requires physical materials and shipping. Vibe coded apps can reach users instantly if there's a discovery mechanism.

The real parallel might be the early web era where anyone could make a website but finding them required Yahoo directories and later Google. Right now vibe coded apps have the same discovery problem - they exist but there's no effective way to find or evaluate them.

The part about vibe coding lowering the barrier to building software is well established at this point. What nobody seems to be addressing is the distribution problem that creates. We're about to have an order of magnitude more software being built, but no corresponding improvement in how people discover and evaluate it. App stores were designed for a world where shipping software was hard. We need new discovery mechanisms for a world where shipping is easy.