My experience with vibe coding
Hey guys, Sharing something many of you probably already knowābut it took me way too long to figure out (shocking, I know). When I started building apps, I used Replit because thatās what I learned on. It works⦠but wow, it gets expensive fast. That $25 monthly credit? Gone in hours. Then itās death by a thousand chargesā$0.70 here, $1.00 there, $4.00 over there. It adds up before you even realize what happened. If youāre deep in build mode, tweaking UI and chasing details, you can burn through hundreds of dollars just trying to make things look rightāwhile slowly losing your hair. I went back and noticed Corbin was using Google AI Studio for the value-add parts of his app, so I figured Iād try it. And honestly? Itās great. Really great. Maybe even āwhy didnāt I do this soonerā great. As far as I can tell, Iām not being charged anything (famous last words), and I just spent the last 12 hours brainstorming and exploring ideasāway more output than I ever got from Replit for what it was costing me. Anyway, just sharing whatās been working for me in case it saves someone else some money⦠or sanity.