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Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by Adrig »

fraywing wrote: post #18

Adding to the topic rather than dog piling onto the website critique: I think "the context" the author defines also includes harder to unlock peripheral components that makes software products in 2026 defensible . For example, security is getting harder not easier. Enterprise trust rides on needing to have up-to-date knowledge on data regulation as well. Relationships, brand maturity, discovery; all of that becomes r…

Definitely. I wonder if this will be an increasing factor when choosing vendors. Will the security risk drive companies away from small software, due to their use of AI? Will we see a bundling of features in big established vendors?

Will they invest more into in-house security? (Doubting the last one).

For small apps used to deliver a service in my examples, I believe the risk surface is way narrower, which might make it more acceptable. For better of for worse

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Post by swiftcoder »

lekevicius wrote: post #2

Unrelated, but since I see that the author posted this to HN: for a reader like me who likes to select text / fidget with mouse clicks as I read, this website is a nightmare.

I don't know, I feel like my OCD clicking has finally been rewarded appropriately. Usually it just results in navigating to weird places via links that are hidden in the formatting. But this time it was delightful! And I was rewarded with a game!

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by actionfromafar »

This feels a bit like motivated reasoning to me. This little tool of yours could instead be a seed you build around. Do you have access to a market? Yes? You are in a better position than ten thousand other vibe coders with a similar idea. No? If you have the stamina to pursue a market, you have more stamina than thousands of vibe coders who will just give up.

Another way to say the same thing is that many (not all, of course) SAAS were already service with a software, especially when starting out.

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Post by khasan222 »

Idk if I disagree completely but it feels like I do. To elaborate, I don’t think we will see less applications, I think we will see more with better features.

My reasoning is people aren’t happy with many of the titans we have for certain apps, uber is my favorite example. Everyone hates the price it charges thinks it’s unfair, but to go back to a time before uber is unfathomable.

That to me is a ripe market to be overtaken. What it really needs is a taxi driver or operator so fed up with the current system they spend their energy organizing and making their own uber with less greed.

For sure not every tool will become huge, but most of the tools we use nowadays started with someone having a problem, being frustrated with the status quo, and having the will and means to execute.

The means necessary to execute get lower and lower everyday.

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by Adrig »

swiftcoder wrote: post #22
lekevicius wrote: post #2

Unrelated, but since I see that the author posted this to HN: for a reader like me who likes to select text / fidget with mouse clicks as I read, this website is a nightmare.

I don't know, I feel like my OCD clicking has finally been rewarded appropriately. Usually it just results in navigating to weird places via links that are hidden in the formatting. But this time it was delightful! And I was rewarded with a game!

Glad to see I'm not alone! I removed it from the articles pages, but you can still go wild on the index page. BTW my high score is 1626

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Post by evilduck »

Adrig wrote: post #17
soulchild37 wrote: post #5

> Senior interface designer > The website fails accessibility color contrast

Text is WCAG AAA?

Chrome's built in Lighthouse scoring fails your site on lacking sufficient contrast.

Subjectively, even without vision problems, I strongly dislike your choice also.

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Post by jerf »

Adrig wrote: post #23
skiing_crawling wrote: post #3

This has that weird "AI written" sentence structure.

Fable helped me edit since I'm not a native English speaker, so I might not catch these subtleties. Thought and structure are my own

A general question for HN: Are there any translation services that I can recommend that people use instead just asking a standard AI to translate in the naive way? I'm saddened by the number of times I'm seeing non-native speakers get tarred with using an AI because the naive way an LLM translates slathers its own style on top of the translation rather than being a more faithful translation.

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by pydry »

khasan222 wrote: post #25

Idk if I disagree completely but it feels like I do. To elaborate, I don’t think we will see less applications, I think we will see more with better features. My reasoning is people aren’t happy with many of the titans we have for certain apps, uber is my favorite example. Everyone hates the price it charges thinks it’s unfair, but to go back to a time before uber is unfathomable. That to me is a ripe market to be ov…

From what ive seen we see no more features and quality is getting worse.

OP is ascribing magical powers to AI which it does not have. sure, it can replace a shitty poorly coded todo app. but nobody wanted that anyway.

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