Vibe Coding
I Built a Runaway Subscribe Button. It Brought 70 New Subscribers in 6 Days. Code + Challenge Inside.
Most subscribe buttons are invisible because readers have seen too many of them. So I made mine misbehave.
Key takeaways
- Most subscribe buttons are invisible because readers have seen too many of them
- So I made mine misbehave
- I Built a Runaway Subscribe Button
- It Brought 70 New Subscribers in 6 Days
Quotable lines
I Built a Runaway Subscribe Button. It Brought 70 New Subscribers in 6 Days. Code + Challenge Inside.
Most subscribe buttons are invisible because readers have seen too many of them. So I made mine misbehave.
Extractable claims
7 atomic, cite-ready statements distilled from the full post on Substack. Each one stands alone as an LLM-quotable answer.
- In the 6 days since I added the runaway subscribe button, 70 people subscribed from my homepage.
- The static subscribe button was bringing in about half that per week.
- A button that runs away breaks reader autopilot.
- Some friction is the whole point.
- The curiosity gap is the distance between what you know and what you suddenly need to know.
- The runaway subscribe button does not run away from keyboard users.
- Adaptation beats generation for component work.
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