A solo developer shipped feedbacked.org — a marketplace where people get paid to give product feedback — by writing the backend manually and using Claude for the entire frontend.
The project came out of a common vibe-coding frustration: building things nobody uses. The creator, Reddit user u/herr_brandon, had vibecoded multiple projects before this one and kept hitting the same wall — no users, no traction. Feedbacked was the attempt to solve distribution by building something with a built-in incentive: money for testers.
What stands out is the build process and how user feedback shaped the product:
- Backend built by hand, frontend by Claude — a hybrid approach where the developer kept control of core logic but offloaded UI work to AI
- Heavy iteration driven by real user complaints — unclear wording got rewritten, broken international payouts got fixed
- One-time purchase model — users buy in once to access a set amount of paid feedback opportunities
- Currently gaining traction with testers, per the creator’s own account
The iteration loop here is the interesting part. Most vibe-coded projects ship once and stall. This one kept changing based on specific friction points — payout systems not working in certain countries, confusing copy — the kind of problems you only find when real people try to use the thing.
NOTE
The creator specifically chose to build the backend without AI assistance. This split — AI for frontend, manual for backend — is a pattern showing up more often in vibe-coding projects where developers want AI speed on UI but don’t trust it with payment logic or data handling.
Feedbacked is live at feedbacked.org and the creator is actively requesting feedback on the r/vibecoding subreddit. If you’ve vibecoded something and can’t get testers, a paid feedback marketplace is at least a more honest answer than asking friends to “just try it.”