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I made myself a micro app to track and follow up my on newbiz as a freelancer. With vibecoding.

I know some of you hate vibecoding and AI in general. You have all sorts of convincing reasons. Most of which I agree with.

But here's the thing: My little dumb app doesn't need to be stable. It will never be used by anyone else. It's in a private repo, so nobody will even see it by accident. It uses a little SQL database that I rclone to backup regularly so I can get all the data out even in case of catastrophic failure.

You could make a better one, you say? In just a day or two? I absolutely believe you. But you weren't here, chances are you couldn't just drop everything just for a dumb side-project, and you wouldn't make it for me just because I asked you to.

It's called “Business 2000” and it has already given me several new leads and meetings. And no, fellow freelancers, I will not give it to you. Unless a developer rebuilds it first. You would inevitably want me to make little changes, and you would hold me accountable if it crashed. It's just human nature.

Pretty soon, we will have vibecoding that isn't as evil and big tech-y as now as well. Get with it. We will need developers, and we will need more of them. But we will be using AI to vibecode as well.

And if you are a developer. Do you really, I mean really want to spend time optimising SEO for a brand of crappy dildo lube? Or automatically deleting accidental alias files in my temp folders? I didn't think so.

I love Business 2000, and I will use it until someone makes a good CMS app. I have used all the CMS apps, tracing back to 2008, and they all suck.

//A

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