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Jun 25, 2026 6:00 PM
Your Vibe-Coded App Isn't Real Until It Has a URL
Here's a sentence that has quietly become a lie: "I built an app."
You built something that runs on your screen. Maybe in a preview pane, maybe on localhost, maybe inside a chat window. It works. It's real to you. And for most of human software history, that was 90% of the battle โ getting the thing to actually function.
That era is over. The functioning part is solved now. You describe what you want, an AI writes it, and it runs. The 90% collapsed to about four minutes.
But here's what nobod
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You built something that runs on your screen. Maybe in a preview pane, maybe on localhost, maybe inside a chat window. It works. It's real to you. And for most of human software history, that was 90% of the battle โ getting the thing to actually function.
That era is over. The functioning part is solved now. You describe what you want, an AI writes it, and it runs. The 90% collapsed to about four minutes.
But here's what nobod