Building your app
Vibe coding
Vibe coding is describing an app in plain words and letting a tool write the code, which gets it built but cannot tell you if anyone needs it.
Also called vibecoding
Looking this up for a class, a job, or something you want to build? If it is the last one, nommi reads your idea before you spend months on it.
It can put a working app in front of you fast. It cannot tell you whether people want it, whether your price is right, or whether the code is safe. Those answers come from real users and a careful look at logins and data rules.
What recent RevenueCat data says
More apps launch than ever, but few earn: in RevenueCat's 2026 report, new subscription app launches passed 14,700 a month in January 2026, and apps launched since 2025 earned 3% of subscription revenue. The report does not say how these apps were built.
- New subscription app launches per month: about 2,000 in January 2022, more than 14,700 in January 2026.
- Share of subscription revenue earned by apps launched in 2025 or later: 3%.
Source: RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026. More than 115,000 subscription apps on RevenueCat, not all apps. As of 5 November 2026.
When this shows up
Example, not a real founder: you build a full habit tracker in a weekend and share it widely. A few people sign up and none come back. Building was never the hard part; nobody had checked that the problem was one people act on.
What to do next
Before your next build session, write the one assumption your app depends on, and the smallest test that could prove it wrong.
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