Dan Vega on the Beehiiv debate: you only use a slice of the tools you pay for

Dan Vega weighed in on the Beehiiv debate with a fair point for both sides. You can't vibe-code Beehiiv over a weekend, he says, and Tyler Denk is right about that. But most of us only use a small slice of the tools we pay for. That's his case that the age of personal software is here, written up in a longer article on X. It may be the most honest framing of the whole war: a SaaS doesn't have to be cloned completely to lose a customer. The customer only needs to clone their slice.