Cory Zue cancels a $600/year SaaS subscription for an Opus-coded in-house alternative
Cory Zue just put another subscription on the obituary page: a $600/year SaaS, cancelled in favour of an in-house alternative coded with Opus. The bigger headline is what's left standing. Cory's outside spend is now only infrastructure: servers, email and payments. Everything else in the stack has already been eaten by the horde. Cory's verdict is blunt: niche B2B SaaS is in real trouble. If you're a small B2B tool hiding on the island, that's the sound of the zombies reaching the shore.
Saving, as stated by the author: $600/year
I just canceled a $600/year SaaS subscription for an Opus-coded, in-house alternative. My external spend is now exclusively down to infrastructure: servers, email & payments.
I think niche B2B SaaS is in real trouble.
— Cory Zue, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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