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I’m sure I’m just getting old and this is really neat and useful - but it’s such a shame that everything is now just several SaaSs tapped together. Notion, Reto
by erulabs 4y ago
I’m sure I’m just getting old and this is really neat and useful - but it’s such a shame that everything is now just several SaaSs tapped together. Notion, Retool, Zapier, Google workspaces… I understand the productivity gains, but it points to me at a fundamental failure of technology. We’re all drowning in tech debt and it’s not getting better and most startups spend half their efforts avoiding paying enterprise licensing for basic security features.
One day I’ll come full circle and be a staff engineer / devops whatever who is just as grumpy as all those sysadmins who mentored me a decade and a half ago.
- Dwolb 4y agoThought experiment: What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?
- 9dev 4y agoIsn’t that Zapier in a nutshell?
- madrox 4y agoI recently did a round with several startups that were Series A looking for CTOs or heads of eng. So many of them really were lots of SaaS solutions strung together. When I asked what the core competency of the team was that differentiated this business from any other, it was often "the experience." Suffice to say that my heart wasn't in selling myself for those jobs.