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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 bbg2401 »

jerf wrote: post #29
Adrig wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> because the naive way an LLM translates slathers its own style on top of the translation rather than being a more faithful translation.

If you're sincere then I'm afraid you're being led on by the lazy.

When tasked with translating a document, unless instructed otherwise, the LLM does not inject its own cliched stories, narrative structures and assorted engagement tricks.

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

willio58 wrote: post #41
mattm wrote: post #35

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. > Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working versi…

> It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. Fully agreed. It's also just a time saver. People are lazy, and I don't mean that in a bad way, just that people don't really want to sit there and explain to an agent exactly what they…

To be fair to Claude on the Clerk thing, I had my agent build session management and auth from scratch, then beefed it up with all the best practice advice, and and and.

It took me an extra day of agent-prodding and code review.

And I still will have to add SSO and Google/whoever sign-in and passkeys and 2FA at some point.

Using Clerk would've avoided that, but at a permanent cost of one more dependency.

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

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Post by em-bee »

jerf wrote: post #29
Adrig wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

i believe that the big ones, bing, google, even deepl are all using AI to translate. the variation and the mistranslations i sometimes get are to wild.

i wish the translation tool would tell me if it can't directly translate a word because of misspellings or abbreviations. i learned that i have to write in a very explicit straight forward way, with each sentence standing on its own to make sure i get sensible translations.

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

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Post by em-bee »

rkuodys wrote: post #49

I expect full circle on this one. Short term - many enthusiasts build stuff. I can fully imagine someone in a given company creating something over the weekend and persuading manager to adopt the system. However, 6 months pass, the person now moved into new role or left a company, nobody knows the product and it becomes just another SaaS just without working support behind it. So for short term it is definitely bring…

if it was built with AI then the knowledge of the builder is not really adding much. the next person coming in to fix issues is just going to feed the thing into an AI too, and ask the AI to fix the problem they have.

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Post by codethief »

sandcat_ wrote: post #50
mattm wrote: post #35

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. > Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working versi…

This is just the old argument in favour of SaaS, though. The article is pointing out that those long-standing rules may no longer make sense, in a world where 1. it no longer takes even a weekend to build the niche, perfectly custom tool and 2. the maintenance / feature requests side is also just a prompt away. At my job (we're somewhere in the transition between startup -> enterprise), we still use a lot of SaaS and…

> those long-standing rules may no longer make sense, in a world where 1. it no longer takes even a weekend to build the niche, perfectly custom tool and 2. the maintenance / feature requests side is also just a prompt away.

…as are your own, perfectly custom security vulnerabilities and their successful exploitations.

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

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Post by em-bee »

sltr wrote: post #67

Three days ago, Rob Walling (SaaS investor) refuted pretty convincingly the claim that genai kills SaaS. His life mission and wealth are bound up in SaaS. If he's not scared, nobody should be. https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-842-...

or his success depends on his perceived confidence. meaning that maybe he is scared, but doesn't want to show it because it would make it worse.

care to share some key takeaways? not really keen on listening to a half hour audio.

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Post by khasan222 »

JackSlateur wrote: post #60
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…

Bad example: uber is not a saas at all It's a network.

Isn’t it saas that facilitates a network with a specific goal in mind?
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