u/Overall-Classroom227

I coded a tool on Vibe, and in one month I managed to get 60 users because I have a small community on X.

And one morning I wake up and see that my tool is no longer available, so I spend a whole day searching for it because I'm not a developer...

As a result, I called a developer friend to take a look. I'd been hacked and all the user data had been stolen... so you can imagine I felt like crying.

Be careful with vibe coding, you're not equipped to protect your clients, and I feel terrible for having betrayed people who trusted me with my platform...

the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in.( that’s actually the only good part)

but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said “what is this.”

6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the AI just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.

tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.

the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.

is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?