Aaron Edwards skips paying for Asana and vibe-codes an agent-first task tracker
Aaron Edwards points out that Asana has MCP, so AI agents can work with it, but it still wasn't worth paying for something that simple when the team barely uses the interface. So they vibe-coded their own team task tracker, built with SSO and MCP first. Their CRM was built the same way, for the same reason. It's a new kind of threat for the SaaS horde: if agents are doing the work, the tool doesn't need to be a product. A polished UI is a weak barricade when nobody is looking at it.
Asana has MCP. Still not worth paying for something that simple when we barely use the UI.
So we vibe-coded a team task tracker — SSO + MCP first.
Same reason we built our own CRM that way. If agents are doing the work, the tool doesn’t need to be a product.
— Aaron Edwards, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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