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This is the result of the last decade or so where SAAS has become very lucrative and barrier to entry is almost nil with some many tools to quickly build someth
by codegeek 2y ago
This is the result of the last decade or so where SAAS has become very lucrative and barrier to entry is almost nil with some many tools to quickly build something. AI is just more fuel on that existing fire. Everyone and their mothers are building a "SAAS" these days. Interesting, now I see all these gurus either selling courses on starting SAAS or selling "boilerplates".
AI is great but this is a side effect of it. It's the new Bitcoin/Blockchain gold rush (is that fad over yet). Everyone wants a piece of it and it will continue to bring out the hustlers to make quick money.
Like you said, not all are useless and there is obviously a market right now. So people are cashing in until it lasts.
- calvinmorrison 2y agoWell the boilerplates like Laravel are incredible. Skip writing your payment processing, your user management, usage billing, email templates and skip right to the business logic you are selling
- codegeek 2y agoI consider Laravel to be a framework. Boilerplates are another wrapper on top of frameworks . For example, there is Laravel Spark which is a boilerplate on top of Laravel. I tried it and it was so bloated and complex to actually change things for your own use case, I dropped it. Many more like that in other ecosystems. Not saying it doesn't work for others but nowadays there are too many people selling boilerplates who have never really built production grade application for at least a decade.
- calvinmorrison 2y agoWell even laravel itself approaches it for us. Its a great ecosystem with a lot of packages built for SaaS products like tenancy or even like sms alert channels. Just random stuff. Only occasionally have I had to write our own you know, boilerplate
- karanveer 2y agoyup