SaaStr: 'I Vibe Coded 10+ Apps Used Almost a Million Times — Then Had to Stop for 90 Days'

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SaaStr published a first-person account from a builder who shipped 10+ production apps via Replit and Claude Code, collectively used nearly a million times, then was forced to stop for 90 days. The piece details the prototype-to-production gap: authentication, payment processing, security, error handling, and scalable architecture consistently break vibe-coded apps at scale. 45% of AI-generated code has security flaws, with 2.74x higher vulnerability rates than human-written code. This is the highest-profile production failure narrative for vibe coding to date.