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The End of SaaS?

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Re: The End of SaaS?

#11
No - aaS is not going anywhere ... for precisely the reasons you already articulated: "I have 0 desire nor inclination to replace any of the software I currently pay for either personally or through my startup"

Businesses should outsource [almost] every non-core functionality to someone else

Unless it becomes so business-critical that it absolutely positively MUST be done in-house, go to a reliable vendor and pay them for their expertise

Programmers already* do this by using libraries when they write software (yeah, you learned how to build a graph data structure and implement a binary search tree in your second or third degree year, but you have never done it since - because the versions that exist in either language-supplied or community-based libraries are just plain better)

The days of "do it all yourself" are - blessedly - decades behind us now

Use the best* tools for the job, and worry about delivering your product/service to your customers

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* "best" may vary over time - cost, language, availability, etc are all factors in determining this for you

Re: The End of SaaS?

#12

The idea that you can write one sentence and get a masterpiece of software that meets your needs is delusional and I’m shocked that it gets as much currency as it does here. I asked Copilot to tell me how to clear out a a RabbitMQ queue and it gave me a great answer. I asked it to write me a Python script that solves Tower of Hanoi, same thing. In both cases it is a well-defined task and I don’t care about how it is…

>The idea that you can write one sentence and get a masterpiece of software that meets your needs is delusional and I’m shocked that it gets as much currency as it does here.

Remember Z language? Or UML? Languages that were supposed to be able to generate a perfect piece of software based on a perfect spec?

Yeah ... those went nowhere :)

Re: The End of SaaS?

#13
post #7

We replaced two minor SaaS vendors this week with vibe coded alternatives, so yes I do think that it's real. Our core systems like HRIS, ERP, Github, email, etc. no and no plans to replace or foresee being able to replace those ones.

I'd love to know what of products these were if you're able to share!

Gitbook and Webflow replaced with our own homegrown static sites on VitePress.
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