My Vibe Coding FAIL
The Vibe-Coding LIE no one talks about
True story here…
My brother and I vibe-coded this website: AI Fitness Calculators
We used Replit to make the entire thing.
The search volume is high for all of the calculators we are making.
When we first put up the website, we were getting decent Google traffic almost immediately.
People were using the site, and the “time on site” was high.
Look at this screenshot of our website here:
You can see that our “Zone 2 Heart Rate Calculator” has 1647 views (It's a bit blurry, I know).
We were pretty happy with the start.
Then after a couple of weeks… Crickets.
Now, if you “quote-search” the URL to the Zone 2 calculator page, you’ll see it doesn’t exist. Google “De-indexed it”.
Why?
We used AI to help with the coding, but we wrote all of the content ourselves. This is the opposite of AI-generated spam.
We also didn’t mass-produce calculators or webpages.
I know Google is having trouble with mass-produced AI garbage flooding the internet.
It seems to me that their algorithm can spot a “vibe-coded” website and will treat it more harshly than others.
I’m not new to SEO or making websites. I have several websites that are performing well in Google search.
For example, I co-own 88Herbs, a premium health supplement website. I also co-own Cartario — a custom AI image generation website.
I’ve seen pages get briefly de-indexed by Google, but I’ve always been able to get them back up quickly when I resubmit them.
But we are having no success with this new site. Once the pages got deindexed, that was it.
To be fair, there are a few things we see that we’d like to improve, and we plan on improving.
But there seems to be something very strange in terms of Google not even looking at our improvements.
Our plan is to make a few more tweaks to see if we can get things up and running, and if not, move on to a new URL.
Vibe coding sounds a lot easier and better in theory than it is in practice.
I still love the concept of it, and we are bullish on the future of vibe coding, but I wanted to share some of the frustrating realities of vibe-coding in the real world.
There is a huge gap between making something that almost works and making something that actually works and earns money.
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