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325 points davidbarker | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | source
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isoprophlex ◴[25 Jun 25 18:48 UTC] No.44380642[source]▶
Is this the end of - or at least a significant challenge to - SaaS?

Why buy into saas tooling if you can just slap something together - that you fully own - with something like this?

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headcanon ◴[25 Jun 25 19:16 UTC] No.44380921[source]▶
Challenge, yes, but I wouldn't go far to say "end of".

B2C SaaS will have more challenge the easier it gets to create things, but consumers have always been fickle anyway.

I'd say B2B SaaS is mostly safe, partially because they want the support and don't want to have to maintain it.

Today we have open-source versions of a lot of SaaS products, but the proprietary ones are still in business, mostly for that reason IME.

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alvah ◴[25 Jun 25 23:56 UTC] No.44382931[source]▶
I think B2 (small) B SaaS is also in trouble pretty much now. Enterprise is a different thing though, the barriers to entry are not just building and maintaining the software.
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1. msy ◴[26 Jun 25 03:33 UTC] No.44383958[source]▶
I don't buy this. Real small business have enough problems that trying to vibe code a Xero replacement isn't really high on the todo list.
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2. NitpickLawyer ◴[26 Jun 25 07:17 UTC] No.44384998[source]▶
Small businesses also use a spreadsheet e-mailed from person to person. A vibe-coded x_table or x_base powered app would get them 80% there with minimal cost. I'd put it in a "it depends" category of things that might or might not happen in the near future.
3. Workaccount2 ◴[26 Jun 25 14:12 UTC] No.44387623[source]▶
I'm in a small non-tech business and already have 7 "vibe coded" apps used daily. Two of them are replacements for what would have been paid for software.

They wouldn't create a Xero replacement (although ironically I did vibecode a business order/finance tracking app for my own side hustle, fuck paying $30/mo when I just need the basics), they would vibecode any of the litany of small industry specific software packages they use.