SaaS obituaries, page 4
Every day the AI zombie horde takes out another subscription. These are real posts from people who cancelled a paid tool and built their own, or found a free clone. Each one comes with our take, the original quote and a link to the source. Savings appear only as the author stated them.
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Tony Dinh's case for personal software: 50 features, he needs 6
Indie maker Tony Dinh did the build-versus-buy maths out loud. A typical SaaS has 50 features. He needs about six, and two of those are either missing or locked behind an Enterprise…
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Kitze gets his first paying subscribers, and says SaaS is dead anyway
Here's a plot twist the zombies didn't see coming. kitze announced the first paying subscriptions for a product, thanked shadcn, promised more templates this week, and then added, in brackets, that SaaS…
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Levelsio cancels almost every business and personal SaaS subscription
Pieter Levels has gone scorched earth. He says he cancelled almost all of the SaaS for his business and now only pays for AI inference, Hetzner hosting, Cloudflare storage, Backblaze backups and…
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Levelsio: software is dead, welcome to the era of personal software
A handful of words that launched a thousand quote posts. Pieter Levels declared software dead and called this the era of personal software, where everyone just builds what they need, whenever they…
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A software founder loses another customer to a vibe-coded alternative
This one comes from the other side of the barricade. Michael Barinov reports that another customer cancelled their license because they vibe-coded their own alternative. It's one sentence, and the important word…
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Quoted $1,500 a month for an Amazon dashboard, he built his own with Claude
A software company in the Amazon space quoted Gordon $1,500 a month for a dashboard covering the 18 e-commerce clients his agency manages on Amazon and Mercado Livre. He opened Claude instead,…
Saving, as stated: a $1,500/month quote vs about $65/month to run
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Rob Hallam: open source is the future of SaaS
Rob Hallam's read on the newsletter wars: if Marc Lou can build a newsletter tool with a few prompts, anyone can, so code is no longer a moat. His advice is to…
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Uncle Bob's agents replace Scrivener and Final Draft in a few days
Uncle Bob Martin had his agents write six tools in a few days, including a word processor that replaces Scrivener for his future books and a script-writing app that replaces Final Draft…
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Noah Kagan: vibe coding isn't killing software, AI just does the job now
Noah Kagan's week, by his own count: an AI assistant negotiated more than $174 of Amazon purchases back in two minutes across three support chats, Claude Code built a custom landing page…
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Bye bye Beehiiv: Marc Lou vibe-codes his own newsletter platform
Beehiiv raised prices for the third time in two years, so Marc Lou fired back with a few prompts in Opus 5.5. His homemade newsletter platform has campaign management with an editor,…
Saving, as stated: a future $4,000/year bill vs under $300/year