Open-source was already coming for all SaaS. Look at apps like Cal.com compared to Calendly and you’ll see it’s light years ahead and you can self-host with 1 c

Open-source was already coming for all SaaS. Look at apps like Cal.com compared to Calendly and you’ll see it’s light years ahead and you can self-host with 1 click. Look at Twenty, a CRM, and it’s so much less bloated then Salesforce. These are 2 examples of hundreds if not thousands and LLMs are trained on this open-source code already. I’ve been following open-source alternatives long before AI and the biggest drawback was bad UI design, but AI makes that easier and now even more open-source alternatives are launching. The incentives made this the obvious next step. SaaS are not something that continuously needs to made better, but them being publicly traded means they have to. So what do they do? They add more features that most customers don’t need, they put essential features behind a bigger paywall, they enshittify by adding ads or selling your data. As these SaaSes added more features and the configuration to boot, people were already learning to “program” but within their walled gardens. If you’re already learning how to configure these applications, how big of a step is no-code and now asking a terminal agent to build that one functionality you need? Before AI became big, you could already see YC funding open-source alternatives to popular applications since they also saw this coming. Notice how they’ve slowed that down now because they know it will lead to their own demise.