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#cautionary case studies

2 sourced case studies tagged #cautionary. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.

fly.pieter.com: a vibe-coded game that hit '$1M ARR' in 17 days, then $0
GummySearch: 140,000 users, then shut down by a platform's API policy

Vibe-coded3 sources · 2 min

fly.pieter.com: a vibe-coded game that hit '$1M ARR' in 17 days, then $0

Pieter Levels built a browser flight simulator with AI and sold in-game ads and planes. The headline was $1M ARR in 17 days. The follow-up shows why one-off revenue is not ARR.

vibe-codingcursorgame

SaaS2 sources · 1 min

GummySearch: 140,000 users, then shut down by a platform's API policy

A solo-built Reddit audience-research tool earned a large following, then closed in 2025 after failing to get a commercial Reddit API license. A lesson in platform risk.

platform-riskredditapi

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