Ask HN: How vibe coding apps are retaining users?

Posted by yogini on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Today, I read the news of Lovable raising $200M and becoming a unicorn!

The team is super talented, all Lovable, Bolt etc are doing really good but I do not understand how they will retain users?

Whenever I have talked to people who vibe coded apps using them, they do it once in a while for the sake of fun and never go back to them. Developers are not using them much, then how will these apps retain users?

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Re:Ask HN: How vibe coding apps are retaining users? by iamzubin on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:41PM (#44595227)

devs perspective; imo they're not targeted towards dev, instead they're trying to capture non tech founders who just want to test out a product and/or the group of people shipping fast ( slop ) into the market.

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Re:Ask HN: How vibe coding apps are retaining users? by misterdabb on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:40PM (#44620520)

They don't. That's why you'll only hear growth metrics like ARR and not "sustainability" metrics like user retention.

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