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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model

164 points · 109 comments · iacguy

  1. wg0 · · focus · HN ↗
    Wait a minute - and who is going to buy that software exactly?

    Because someone was so sick of expensive Adobe Photoshop they created their own vibe coded PhotoShop for $2000 worth of tokens and then selling it on for way cheaper. [0]

    Some YouTuber got so sick of Adobe Premier they literally vibe coded their own full fledge video editor exactly to their needs with everything else that they don't need stripped out. [1]

    I know of a case where a totally non technical person sitting in an south asian city wrote his own financial management software for his business in just three weeks. Vibe coded and now his daily driver tracking accounts, payables, receivables, contracts, parses PDFs from his inbox, populates forms and full workflow that HE needs for his specific commission/resale/distribution business.

    So what this company is going to sell with that Harness? Or would it be selling just that Harness to other companies like those Rails bootstrap SaaS boilerplate businesses that used to charge $300 for that junk with lifetime update promise?

    EDIT: Formatting

    [0]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vibecoding&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wpaies&#x2F;my_vibecoded_photoshop_just_crossed_20k_users&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vibecoding&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wpaies&#x2F;my_vibe...

    [1]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qOQ3MEx6czY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qOQ3MEx6czY

    1. calvinmorrison · · focus · HN ↗
      but reasonably good mid market erps are &lt;10k&#x2F;yr?
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