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Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#11

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?

- Compliance

- Thing should work reliably (and you want someone else to be responsible for fixing it if it doesn't)

- Security

- Most SaaS is sufficiently complex that an LLM cannot implement it

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#12

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?

When you have a service outage you think the AI will be able to troubleshoot the entire system and resolve the issues?

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#14

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?

When you have a service outage you think the AI will be able to troubleshoot the entire system and resolve the issues?

if scaling laws and context windows continue, why not?

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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The tiniest step towards a future where AI eats all apps. No persistent storage and other limitations make it just a toy for now but we can imagine how people will just create their own Todo apps, gym logging apps and whatever other simple thing. no external API access currently but when that's available or app users can communicate with other app users, some virality is possible for people who make the best tiny app…

One thing I've learned is that no matter how easy it is to create stuff, most users will still favor the one-click app install, even if they don't get full control over the workflow.

With that said, I'm sure there are a lot of power users who are loving the lower barrier to creation

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

#17

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?

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.

Re: Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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post #11

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?

- Compliance - Thing should work reliably (and you want someone else to be responsible for fixing it if it doesn't) - Security - Most SaaS is sufficiently complex that an LLM cannot implement it

This x100. B2B is a different monster altogether.
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