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> Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment.

How much is it costing him to hire someone to reimplement his idea correctly?

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Never mind what it's costing the vibe coder to fix this.

The important question is: what was the cost and consequences of the exploits for users of the service?

Probably a similar amount that it would have taken him to hire someone from the start, except he’s already validated the product and market.

> Probably a similar amount that it would have taken him to hire someone from the start, except he’s already validated the product and market.

He hasn't validated the market at the price point that includes the cost of a developer to build the product. He's validated a market in which it costs him close to zero to deliver. He's not validated a market which costs (say) a few months of dev time.

Currently only equity.

And it only works because has proven the revenue model and found the customers already.

Customers that he screwed over with his shoddy code.

And a developer he's screwing over by not paying them.

If he manages to do it, he'll know it's a business with legs and how much people will pay which is pretty invaluable knowledge

Lots of people on HN seem to have a very broken idea of how startups and entrepreneurship works.

Likely still cheaper than whatever these competitors have spent building their product and then hiring blackhat saboteurs.

I wonder if people do that sort of thing..

Generally bandits are not interested in sparing anyone. =3

That's a very big alligation that would need some more proof than "who else would hack it?"

He can expect 5 times what he would have paid the first time with a proper specification...

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