I've got an idea for a series of posts about our vibe-coding problems. Today I'll talk about the lumps I took in the part that was hardest for me: deploy.
My favorite pet project was about astrology: you'd send your birth data to a Telegram bot, the service would calculate your natal chart, and an AI would answer questions about it. In six months the project didn't make a single cent, and one fine day, right in the middle of eclipse season, I shut it down. But along the way it walked me into a decent number of gotchas, and those I want to share.
So. You have a brilliant idea for a brilliant service. You talked it over with an AI, the AI produced code and promises of money raining down. Just one small thing left: that code currently lives — and probably works — only on your laptop. And it needs to be on the internet.
Where do you even put it
I see three options, and two of them rule themselves out.
