Every subscription app is one price hike away from a free clone
Vincent Eliezer reacts to someone vibe-coding the entire Adobe creative suite and releasing it for free. His punchline is the real headline: every subscription app right now is one price hike away from a developer saying 'how hard can it be?'. That's the new pricing ceiling for SaaS. It used to be whatever a competitor charged. Now it's whatever an annoyed customer, or an annoyed developer with an AI agent, could build over a weekend. Raise prices once too often and you aren't just losing a deal. You're spawning a zombie.
someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe creative suite and made it completely free.
every subscription app right now is one price hike away from a developer saying
"how hard can it be?" 😂
— Vincent Eliezer, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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