Paying $200 a month for Claude to avoid $20 a month for Spotify
djcows has done the maths, and the maths is hilarious: instead of paying $20 a month for Spotify, it's $200 a month for Claude to make his own Spotify for free. Then, deadpan: SaaS is dead. It's a joke, but a sharp one, because it lands on the real economics of the zombie wave. The money isn't disappearing. It's moving from dozens of app subscriptions into one AI subscription. The SaaS dies, and the model provider collects the inheritance.
instead of paying $20/mo for spotify, i pay $200/mo for claude to make my own spotify for free
SaaS is dead
— djcows, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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- Hunter Bohm cancelled 5 subscriptions in two weeks with Claude Code, about $134 a month
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- Noah Kagan says Claude Max killed $15,788 a year of software, Carta and Zapier included
- Pawan cancelled $1,700/month construction software after bots rebuilt it on QuickBooks