@lior

Everyone's freaking out that their app can be vibecoded in a weekend. Levels posted about declining indie revenue. Patrick said the indie hacker product type is dying. They're both right about the symptom. But the diagnosis most people are landing on is wrong. The problem isn't that your product is replaceable. It always was. A better-funded team could have cloned you in a month. What changed is the cost dropped to zero and the timeline dropped to Saturday afternoon. So what's actually durable? Not the feature set. Not the UI. The owned distribution. The audience that trusts you enough to pay before the product is perfect. The community that tells other people about it. That's what BigAI can't generate for you. You can't vibe-code a relationship. The builders who survive this aren't the ones with better code. They're the ones who built something around their product, not just the product itself. What are you building around yours?

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