alt Hacker NewsFirst, congrats on your accomplishment(s) and leveraging your AI+Python+WebDev talents.
Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? What's stopping anyone with a little of domain knowledge and a $200+ Claude to clone your app and build yet another gap-filling, slightly improved content-syndication version and go-to-market? Is it worth taking it to the market when anyone can perpetuate the cycle?
I'm genuinely interested in knowing your thoughts.
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DrammBA • yesterday at 2:37 PM
> Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean?
It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.
My personal opinion is that it will be extremely difficult in the future to monetize plain software. Either you need a very strong edge and unique angle for your distribution or you have to build a product that cannot be reproduced by agents that can build software.
This will be 2 types of products.
1. A product which requires tech that is not inside the training data distribution of the models underlying coding agents. This is usually then very cutting edge.
2. A product that uses data/insights to generate value for a customer to which a coding agent has no access.
These are the only abstract moats I can think of, the rest will be a race to the bottom