Comment by throw0129

I must admit that I find this thread very funny. "Spend $200 a month so that you can waste a weekend to make a shitty clone of a SaaS app so that you can save $10" is... somewhat questionable, as far as sensible decisions go. Some people even seem to assume that this is a death kneel of the entire saas app industru, since everybody can just vibe code an inferior knockoff of bejeweled or whatever.

It just boggles he mind how divorced from reality some people are. You could offer $fotm_ai_model with infinite usage, free apple developer account (since you're apparently replacing everything you have with homegrown stuff) and the amount of people wasting their weekends on vibe-cloning their own custom apps would still approximate to zero. This doesn't even get to the fact that the majority of apps already HAVE a free alternative, and it's certainly far less effort to replace increasingly obnoxious apple music with foobar than to build, test and then permanently support your own music player. You also probably want claude code 15 to replace anything non-trivial, otherwise, well, good luck.

I don’t think I’d bother even if my weekend had ten times as many hours as it does, and I’m a code monkey that still mostly enjoys his job.