Hobbyist clones a subscription to-do app with Claude in 5 hours: distribution, not product, is the moat
gaurishanker10 · reddit · 2026-10-04
A self-described hobbyist coder wanted the subscription weekly-planner app Teux Deux but refused to pay, so he had Claude build his own: after 4-5 hours of back-and-forth, he got a working personal app hosted free on Cloudflare with its own database and Google login.
His core takeaway: product is now the least significant part of building an app — marketing and distribution are everything. Despite a year of AI subscriptions and many projects, he's earned nothing; his stash of genuinely useful tools is "junk" market-wise with no distribution strategy. He wrestles with the build-in-public dilemma (any engineer could clone your app in an afternoon) and asks: will the internet become a graveyard of vibe-coded projects?
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