I came up with a great idea for a solo Vibe Coding project, and I'm testing it out right now
Promoting an app is harder than building it! Reddit is strict & ASO is slow. As a Korean dev with limited English, I started making Shorts for global marketing. Using just a selfie, voice memo & screen recording, it looks pro & downloads are up! Solo devs, let's connect!
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I like that you solved your own distribution bottleneck instead of treating marketing as a separate skill.
When one workflow can consistently turn a screen recording into content that's good enough to publish, it becomes a repeatable growth system rather than a one-off marketing effort.
Thank you, that is exactly the reframe that made it click for me. I used to treat marketing as a separate job I was bad at, so I kept postponing it. Turning it into a pipeline made it feel like engineering again.
Two things made it repeatable in practice. First, hard checklists instead of taste. Every video has to pass the same gates before it counts as done: hook visible on frame zero, captions readable with sound off, no claims the app cannot keep. Second, splitting generation from assembly. Heavy AI generation runs on a separate GPU machine, and the editing side is just a script that swaps sources in fixed slots, so each new video is a diff, not a project.
One honest caveat: the system is repeatable, but I cannot call it a growth system yet. I published the first videos this week and the view counts are still tiny. I will share the numbers here either way, wins or zeros.
I appreciate the honest caveat.
Reading your reply gave me one thought about the distinction between a repeatable production system and a repeatable growth system. I'd rather explain it in the context of what you're building than try to compress it into a thread.
If you're interested, what's the best email to reach you on?
I am not currently considering commercializing this video system. However, since I sense that you are grappling with similar issues, I am sharing my email address with you: [email protected].
Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.