Tony Dinh's case for personal software: 50 features, he needs 6
Indie maker Tony Dinh did the build-versus-buy maths out loud. A typical SaaS has 50 features. He needs about six, and two of those are either missing or locked behind an Enterprise plan. He doesn't have time to scout for alternatives and doesn't want his data locked in with a vendor. Vibe-coding his own tool, he estimates, takes a day. That's the zombie apocalypse in one spreadsheet cell: when most of your features are dead weight to a customer, they only need to rebuild the handful that matter.
The case for personal:
An example SaaS today has 50 features.
I need about 6 features, 2 of those features are not in the 50 features that the SaaS offer or they are locked behind an Enterprise plan.
I don’t have time to scout around for alternatives. I also don’t want my data to be locked into the SaaS vendor.
Vibe coding my own tool will probably take 1 day. It’s pretty simple math.
— Tony Dinh, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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