Up at 6am, freakyclown rebuilt a SaaS the company was too small to buy
freakyclown had to be up at 6am anyway, so he vibe-coded a reverse-engineered version of a SaaS product the company was too small to purchase. The MVP ran in under an hour, the next few hours went on tweaking, and the plan was to roll it out to the whole company that afternoon. The estimate: upwards of $50,000 a year saved. The kicker is that it was all built with local AI running on a Mac Studio. No cloud model bill, no seat licence. A rare zombie that runs entirely off the grid.
Saving, as stated by the author: upwards of $50,000 a year
Had to be up at 6am today, so I vibe coded a reverse engineered SaaS product that our company was too small to purchase. I had MVP running in under an hour and the last few hours I’ve been tweaking and fine tuning and maybe later this afternoon I’ll roll it out to the entire company! Saving upwards of $50,000 a year.
Oh and it’s all built using local AI running on my Mac Studio.
— freakyclown, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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