I make online software so advanced that nobody knew it was even possible to begin with. So I think I'm good, AI can try all day long.
And I'm not even joking.
What if users start cloning SaaS using AI
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#22You just discovered the SaaSpocalypse that began around January this year.
Is there an actual SaaSpocalypse, or just people saying it is going to happen? Because I haven’t seen it with my eyes, and it’s not like business owners are flooding to HN to complain how AI has killed their business.
I'm not sure "SaaSpocalypse" is anything more than hyperbole, but there is a grain of truth behind the thought - What I'm seeing is not companies saying "We should re-write this product we use" as much as it is resellers saying "We can be more than middle-men if we create our own."
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#23You are absolutely right!
Why don’t you give it a go?
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#24I have replaced software that costs a pretty penny per month. This was possible since opus 4.6... Im probably an outlier though and I don't actually think the practice is very widespread.
It is
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#25This is why investors ask what your moat is
Some moats are going to change in future
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#26AI can clone the interface, but the real moat has to move deeper: proprietary data, workflow lock-in, trust,and distribution.
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#27Being a real business will protect you.
There is way more to a business than the technical product!
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#28You could clone easily before AI. When learning a language, "Build a twitter clone" is a tutorial project. That doesn't give you the business. It give you no users, no market, no branding. You don't have the operations set up to run at scale, nor the customer base to even need it. Not to mention the leadership to build out a vision. "Clone someone else" is actually a bit of a red flag in terms of vision. If anything,…
It's not about cloning and selling your own app. It's about using app that you are paying for, by cloning it using AI.
If you have the resources to clone other "apps" instead of working on your own, either you have too many free resources or your "app" is too simple and someone will copy it using fable, allegory, apologue, parable, or the the next LLM that ships in the next few days.