Why isn't vibe coding creating more shareware?
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, shareware was common - but now that almost anyone can vibe code software, why aren't we seeing more shareware?
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Re:In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough
on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:30PM (#48722270)
But people naturally want to live near water or other natural features and those areas are usually already developed.
I suppose one could cross-reference all of the places where highway meets water meats geographic feature, but a city does not yet exist - and then propose one.
Re:Show HN: I built a microlearning app to learn personal finance
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:56PM (#48480135)
Slick website. I just downloaded the app. Onboarding works well.
Re:The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know ...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#48417849)
Yes, it's about how you think about yourself. Identity matters just as much as experience, sometimes moreso.
Re:Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:30AM (#48397709)
Do you think companies are gonna be like?:
Wait a minute. We didn’t save money by adding AI. We just added an expense.
Now we have to pay for employees AND AI.
Re:What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:28AM (#48222284)
It hints at something fundamental to how the universe works, in that there is always an adjacent possible.
Re:
on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:22AM (#42558848)
He said he’s submitting to the Annals of Mathematics.
Re:Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @10:26AM (#41777746)
Yes, Peter Drucker(0) said that shipping containers were one of the greatest inventions of the last century
0) father of modern management and coiner of term "knowledge worker"
Re:Turning away from smartphones: 'We need to go places and touch things'
on Friday June 14, 2024 @08:04AM (#40680039)
How can we use our smartphones to "go places and touch things"?
Re:Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback
on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:58AM (#40274755)
This is a good solution (storing in rock) to get around the heat and corrosion (from water) that above-ground tanks go through when storing compressed air.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)
on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:47PM (#38492934)
Location: Wisconsin
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Shopify+/Liquid, HTML, CSS, eCommerce, Business Analysis, IT
Résumé/CV: https://erichstauffer.com/resume
Email: [email protected]How Will Tablets Affect My Kids?
What are you thankful for? Take a deep breath. Breathe in. Breathe out. What is going right in your life? Breathe in. Breathe out. Focus on the positives. Breathe in. Breathe out. You're alive. You're loved. Smile. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Re:Hard-Core Career Advice For A 13-Year-Old
on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:29PM (#9666744)
Right, James Altucher, in his other writings on the subject, he specifically mentions those careers as the only reason to go to college.
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Re:A New Theory of Time – Lee Smolin (2013) [video]
on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:49PM (#8205732)
So I watched the whole thing and only understand parts of it, but is his main theory that the laws of physics which were previously thought to be unchanging may indeed change over time and that itself is the proof that the universe is temporal?
Re:Ask HN: How would you market this?
on Friday July 18, 2014 @03:50PM (#8055226)
Essentially: outreach.
Reach out to relevant bloggers to offer to do a guest blog post and to relevant podcasters to get interviewed. Some podcasters will charge you to be interviewed.
Consider starting your own podcast about working out. It's actually not much harder than recording MP3s, publishing a RSS feed, and applying to iTunes.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)
on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @09:59AM (#7970660)
Rob Walling recently posted that he is looking for a Postgres DBA: https://twitter.com/robwalling/status/476799826768969729
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Re:Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:28PM (#7555436)
I agree. What John's describing as the web is more like the Internet. The "web" is Tim Berners-Lee's "World Wide Web" (ie. hyperlinked documents rendered in a web browser).
Ask HN: Why are there all these 2048 posts?
Can someone explain to me why there have been so many 2048 posts lately and why this game matters?