alt Hacker NewsThat’s what I thought. I wonder if that’s true though. I’m sure 80% take no time but actually productizing it takes forever. Now you’ve got a maintenance burden too. I’m really curious how long it would take to implement harvest and the ecosystem around it these days.
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It took me about 10 days to update an existing business app that I used to include functionality replacing harvest time tracking, invoicing (with a far superior QBO sync, saving us days of people time per month), and forecasting (Forecast was never well integrated with Harvest).
Yes, we are picking up a maintenance burden but the 10x price increase in our case made it a very easy cost/benefit equation, and I decided that as a primary technology in a consulting business it was worth controlling it.
I argued this before. I think it makes no sense for eg an estate agents to vibe code a CRM, but if you're a tech firm (or a big firm with a tech department) I think it is worth a shot, especially if you only use 50% of the features in the software you pay for.
Its a problem but it isn't.
Home grown product isn't going to match a saas product's features. But you dont need most of it anyway. so home grown gets the job done. Till it hits entropy or the roi is gone. Problems will show up a few months / years down till it isn't worth the effort or the savings.
Saas products that survive this AI wave are going to come out stronger on the other end.