The answer, to me, is you pay for an app if the care and attention the developer gives the app is more than you can afford to give. If the few bucks you’ll spend is worth more than the time you’d spend building your own version of the app.
A couple weeks later, I decided I wanted my own Bluesky client too. I may have been a little drunk when I came to that decision. I woke up the next day a little hungover, and a lot bummed out that I put such a hurtin’ on my ChatGPT usage, especially since there were more bugs and glitches than I was comfortable fixing. Let alone maintaining something like that long-term…
So I deleted the GitHub repo and moved on. I could have, technically, kept working on it and gotten it running as smooth as my RSS app, but it wouldn’t have been worth it to me.
There are plenty of Bluesky apps that work great — many of them vibe-coded, and many that are worth the couple of bucks the devs are asking. Shoutout to Anisota, for that matter.
This, 100%. I vibe-coded an RSS reader/markdown editor I use as a backend to this blog.
A couple weeks later, I decided I wanted my own Bluesky client too. I may have been a little drunk when I came to that decision. I woke up the next day a little hungover, and a lot bummed out that I put such a hurtin’ on my ChatGPT usage, especially since there were more bugs and glitches than I was comfortable fixing. Let alone maintaining something like that long-term…
So I deleted the GitHub repo and moved on. I could have, technically, kept working on it and gotten it running as smooth as my RSS app, but it wouldn’t have been worth it to me.
There are plenty of Bluesky apps that work great — many of them vibe-coded, and many that are worth the couple of bucks the devs are asking. Shoutout to Anisota, for that matter.