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Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Re: Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Post by cowlby »

rgbrgb wrote: post #2

i love this because it seems like you've turned vibecoding up to 11 unleashing the non-technicals in your org to ship vibecode slop straight to prod. it's an idea so obviously terrible to most engineers that maybe it's actually really really smart. much bolder than yet another AI-driven dashboarding tool or smart notebook. to address the elephant in the room... how do you think about technical debt incurred by users…

Not the op but I think of it as “job security” for developers when they’re called to fix.

Re: Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Post by phainopepla2 »

fomoz wrote: post #12

2,000 daily users is 2,000 separate paying businesses that use your app or you count one business with 2,000 employees as 2,000 users? How many paying clients (companies, not people) do you have?

> We're live with five businesses and 2000 daily users!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112256

Re: Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Post by beachy »

I guess I don't really understand how this works although I admit to not reading everything. Most SaaS companies are very vigilant about not having per-customer code changes - many people have lived through the hell of ending up with divergent code bases as a result of customer demands.

But I did want to mention something that I think would work well for SaaS companies which is related, and that is empowering customers to make their own changes to the core product.

We tried at one stage having a council of customers, but it's simply wasn't practical to implement all of the ideas that they came up with. That's changed now.

I think an interesting product would bundle the communications, voting (if necessary), updates, screen captures / video demos, feedback loops and so on that are involved in a decent sized group of customers consolidating their requirements/ideas.

A true mark of success might be when the product becomes self-stewarding, with customers driving a lot of the requirements.

Re: Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Post by namanyayg »

beachy wrote: post #18

I guess I don't really understand how this works although I admit to not reading everything. Most SaaS companies are very vigilant about not having per-customer code changes - many people have lived through the hell of ending up with divergent code bases as a result of customer demands. But I did want to mention something that I think would work well for SaaS companies which is related, and that is empowering custome…

Our solution to that age old problem is to scope each new feature into its independent "app", which is sandboxed and walled off from the main source code

Re: Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

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Post by jeswin »

namanyayg wrote: post #19
beachy wrote: post #18

I guess I don't really understand how this works although I admit to not reading everything. Most SaaS companies are very vigilant about not having per-customer code changes - many people have lived through the hell of ending up with divergent code bases as a result of customer demands. But I did want to mention something that I think would work well for SaaS companies which is related, and that is empowering custome…

Our solution to that age old problem is to scope each new feature into its independent "app", which is sandboxed and walled off from the main source code

Built something like this, but mostly just read-only. Handling writes seemed harder (and a maintenance issue), so we didn't.
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