alt Hacker NewsSoftware that had a data moat because it was hard to integrate with or migrate off of will have that moat disappear. A web site is a client now. Building data migration too for all of you competitors is easier now.
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StanAngeloff • today at 6:27 AM
One of the many SaaS products we use at Day Job chose to gatekeep its MCP behind an enterprise plan. A brief Claude Code session later and a better, more feature-full MCP than the official was reverse-engineered from internal APIs by Opus.
I've just had a SaaS that I use decide to implement a 2.4x price increase. I reacted instead by taking screenshots of every page of the SaaS, downloading their API docs, exporting what data I could, and asking Claude to build a self-hosted clone based just on those files. I had a read-only version of my entire data history completed in a single evening. Even at Opus API rates, it cost me less than half the price of a single annual seat.