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Who said SaaS is dead?? The HN uber-brain? The people who thought MongoDB was God's gift to databases? Don't listen to think-pieces you find here, they're wrong
by 0xbadcafebee 9mo ago
Who said SaaS is dead?? The HN uber-brain? The people who thought MongoDB was God's gift to databases? Don't listen to think-pieces you find here, they're wrong by default. Normal people (and businesses) don't want to build and run software products, they want to pay someone else to do it for them.
- samschooler 9mo agoI would say it's the market and sentiment around SAAS right now. See HubSpot, Atlassian, Salesforce, etc. tickers.
- snapcaster 9mo agoThe stock market has said SaaS is dead
- 0xbadcafebee 9mo agoIf the stock market told you to jump off a bridge, would you?
- islandfox100 9mo agoRegardless, the statement "the stock market has said SaaS is dead" is a fair and accurate response to your initial question "Who said SaaS is dead".
- TimTheTinker 9mo agoDon't underestimate the power of LLMs to build targeted bespoke systems. I used to work on an internal QA team at a software company, and it quickly became the "internal web app" team after I built 2 web apps (to coordinate manual testing and handle the post-release fix approval process). I'd bet a lot of money that the team I was on is currently building a lot of new apps and features for internal use using Claude Opus or OpenAI Codex. For companies that are willing to pay a few more developers, they can build some bespoke apps for internal use (if simple enough) to coordinate workflows. Of course, highly complex, domain-specific software will never be dethroned. No one can build a Linux replacement with an LLM. Same for DaVinci Resolve, Apple Logic Pro, Pianoteq and ArcGIS. But glorified CRUD apps that handle basic workflows and integrations will likely be subject to losses on the low end, where a few devs and a Claude Code subscription can handle basic cases.