edited on: 1/22/2026
Why should I buy an app if I can just claude it?
Why you should consider buying an app, and not just claude coding it.
Claude is really good, pretty much as good as the person using it. I see a lot of bait and hum-bug on Twitter about building an app in under an hour, honestly - it looks great! Probably works too. But it's either under-engineered or over-engineered. Finding a middle ground with models is really hard, if not impossible.
Here's why buying could make sense:
- if you have a general idea or outline, and don't want to put thought in to detailed schematics
- if you don't want to keep solving problems in every code run
- you want something that just works
- you're great at marketing, and don't want to think about product
- you don't want to spend $100/month hosting side projects on serverless platforms.