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In the age of LLMs, AI assisted programing and vibe coding can't this all be replicated?

I'm confused why is this a yearly subscription or paid at all?

This tool might as well be open source to be brutally honest.

Yeah that is a fair point, it can be replicated but not many people want to replicate an app and would rather pay for it. The functionality is not hard to replicate but the UX side of things and general support and improvements over time is what people have paid for. There is a lifetime option also - yearly was about offering choices.

Same goes for Dropbox - you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CSV on the mounted filesystem.

I understand your jest, but you can really vibecode your own Dropbox in this day and age.

I'm pretty confident that Grok CLI 4.6 could one shot this.

Yet most don’t. Because they don’t wanna spend time on it and they want a tested and proven software. Heck why even use Mac/linux/windows when you can just vibecode your own OS.

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