· Posted on X by Riley Brown @rileybrown · Opinion

Riley Brown says vibe coders maintaining their own apps isn't silly, it's already better than most SaaS

Riley Brown has no patience for the idea that vibe coders babysitting their own apps is silly. The pitch: GPT Sites ships auth, a database, storage and hosting, so you build your site and then prompt it to keep itself secure and maintained every day. Personal software that maintains itself. Riley's case against the SaaS castle is about priorities: SaaS companies maintain software for their current and future pool of users and their business model, not for you. And this isn't just an X bubble, Riley says. The most normie of normies are already building and using their own software, and we're only in inning 2 of 9.

People seem to think its "silly" that vibe coders are going to be maintaining apps for themselves.

My take is that its not silly at all... GPT Sites has built in Auth, DB, Storage, Hosting... everything... GPT Sites will continue to get better and easier to use.

Once you build your site just prompt it: "every day please make sure this site is secure and maintained properly, make any changes you need to"

Done! You now have a personal software application that is auto-maintained for YOU!

This is already better than most SAAS.
Why?

Because SAAS companies do not maintain software for YOU. SAAS companies maintain software for it's current and future pool of users, and their business model first.

You as an individual are not prioritized.

And there's also a common misconception that we are a bubble on x. I've seen it with my own two eyes. The most "normie" of "normies" are building and successfully using software that they build themselves.

And we are only in like inning 2/9 on this. It will only accelerate.

— Riley Brown, read the original on X

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