Why do all "vibecoders" make their apps paid?

First of all, hello everyone—some of you may have seen my TE perfomance posts on Reddit.

I’m really happy to be here and to join a community like this.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of projects on Reddit related to our devices; frankly, many of them are still in a rough, unfinished state, yet the developers still slap a $10 or $20 price tag on them. It raises a fair question: is it honest to sell a product you haven’t finished yet? And how do we distinguish between, say, a startup founder who needs Kickstarter funds to build a prototype and a “vibe-coder” who threw together an app in an evening using AI—spending nothing but API tokens?