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First, congrats on your accomplishment(s) and leveraging your AI+Python+WebDev talents. Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doin

First, congrats on your accomplishment(s) and leveraging your AI+Python+WebDev talents. Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? What's stopping anyone with a little of domain knowledge and a $200+ Claude to clone your app and build yet another gap-filling, slightly improved content-syndication version and go-to-market? Is it worth taking it to the market when anyone can perpetuate the cycle? I'm genuinely interested in knowing your thoughts.

DrammBA 6mo ago
> Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.
JanSchu 6mo ago
My personal opinion is that it will be extremely difficult in the future to monetize plain software. Either you need a very strong edge and unique angle for your distribution or you have to build a product that cannot be reproduced by agents that can build software. This will be 2 types of products. 1. A product which requires tech that is not inside the training data distribution of the models underlying coding agents. This is usually then very cutting edge. 2. A product that uses data/insights to generate value for a customer to which a coding agent has no access. These are the only abstract moats I can think of, the rest will be a race to the bottom
- SeriousM 6mo ago
  A third and very valid one is: You are in a nice he market, be very well connected and buried into customers process and your customer care more about you as a person/consultant/delivery than going though the hassle of replacing you.
- vladsanchez 6mo ago
  I concur and share your thoughts - "it's a race to the bottom" - also as you said and I recently shared with a close friend: - "In the AI Age, Data is your only Moat!" Thanks for sharing such valuable insights JanSchu! B-)

DrammBA 6mo ago

> Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.

JanSchu 6mo ago

My personal opinion is that it will be extremely difficult in the future to monetize plain software. Either you need a very strong edge and unique angle for your distribution or you have to build a product that cannot be reproduced by agents that can build software. This will be 2 types of products. 1. A product which requires tech that is not inside the training data distribution of the models underlying coding agents. This is usually then very cutting edge. 2. A product that uses data/insights to generate value for a customer to which a coding agent has no access. These are the only abstract moats I can think of, the rest will be a race to the bottom

SeriousM 6mo ago
A third and very valid one is: You are in a nice he market, be very well connected and buried into customers process and your customer care more about you as a person/consultant/delivery than going though the hassle of replacing you.
vladsanchez 6mo ago
I concur and share your thoughts - "it's a race to the bottom" - also as you said and I recently shared with a close friend: - "In the AI Age, Data is your only Moat!" Thanks for sharing such valuable insights JanSchu! B-)