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A B2B AI consultant tracked 1,000+ vibe-coded apps over 13 months: 97% dead, abandoned, breached, or stuck under $500/month — and all of them failed for the same three reasons, while HVAC routing quietly bills $1,400 a month per shop.
“If you can describe your ICP in one tweet, understand so can 10,000 other people.” The plumber down the street does not have 50 clones competing for him — he has zero.
Fewer bars = easier, cheaper, or faster for an AI-assisted solo builder. Editorial judgments based on the case details.
Bgo runs a B2B AI consultancy in Los Angeles and an accelerator for software engineers, and he ships with AI tools daily — his framing is not anti-AI, it is anti-sequence.
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Data credibility: Two different evidence grades in one video, and they should not be mixed. The failure statistics are attributed to named third-party research and security firms and to public post-mortems, with the creator stating each claim was cross-checked against at least two sources and single-sourced claims were cut — but the sources are relayed in a slide deck rather than shown, one source name is garbled in the transcript, and the 1,000-app sample plus its selection and failure definitions (dead, abandoned, breached, or under $500/mo after six months) are the creator's own construction. The revenue figures — $1,400/month per HVAC shop, a six-figure freight-dispatch engagement, seven figures ARR for his own firm — are entirely self-reported, unaudited, and stated by someone promoting an application-only accelerator and a free masterclass in the same video. No client contracts, dashboards or invoices were shown.
Customers come before code here, and that inversion is the whole argument. The 3% he tracked "had 10 conversations with actual buyers ... got commitment to pay.
The first money in a boring vertical usually arrives as a deposit, before anything is built, which is a large part of why it arrives at all.
The compounding in a vertical build comes from sameness.
The silence in this model arrives before the build rather than after, and that is deliberate: weeks of calls to shop owners who do not call back, with nothing shipped to show for it. The instinct at that point is to go and add features, which is exactly the failure he documents - "every feature is pretty much a loan.
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