Why Your Vibe-Coded App Has Users But No Revenue

People are signing up. That's the maddening part. They find your app, they create an account, they click around. Some of them even come back a second time. But nobody's paying. You've got a free tier or a trial and people seem to like the product well enough. They don't complain. They don't leave angry emails. They just quietly use the free version and never upgrade. Or they sign up, get to the pricing page, and vanish. You built this thing with Replit or Lovable or Bolt because you had a real insight about a problem people have. The tools made it fast and cheap to turn that insight into a working product. And they delivered on that promise - you have an app, it works, people can use it. But somewhere between "people can use it" and "people will pay for it" there's a gap. And that gap is costing you runway every week it stays open. Building a product has never been easier. AI code tools made the building part fast. The part they didn't speed up is figuring out why someone would pull ou