I was chatting to a friend recently about vibe coding. The conversation started with using vibe coding tools to build solutions for his own business, but it quickly drifted to "then I have a product I can sell".
It's always a fun conversation, but I think the jump from 'building' a solution to 'selling' a solution is a lot bigger than people think.
There are some serious caveats which most people don't think of, or aren't aware of, and they till trip you up quite quickly.
I won't cover all of them here, but I'll give you an example that hopefully makes sense.
Imagine someone young, fresh out of cooking school, gets a job working at a bakery. It's a pretty tough job, you start early, like really early, and you have one shot at getting today's bake right. The prep work, the clean up, planning the next day, managing the kitchen, it's a lot.
But a few weeks in, she's filled with confidence, she has a system, things are ticking along smoothly. That's when then dreaded thought creeps in; 'I could run my own bakery'.
But the jump from being the chief baker, to owning a bakery is a big on. You need a shop, you need all the ovens for baking, you need to hire staff, you need to manage money and taxes, suppliers, customers etc etc.
It's a lot to juggle and a lot to deal with.
The same basic principals apply to wanting to jump from something you cooked up in Cursor, to having it as a product people can pay for and use.
That's one of the things I want to cover in our community. Helping vibe coders go from hacking away inside cursor, to actually building an app, that's production ready and able to generate revenue.
Cheers,
Shawn