Comment by vladsanchez
1 day ago
First, 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.
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
I concur and share your thoughts - "it's a race to the bottom" - also as you said and I recently shared with a close friend:
- "In the AI Age, Data is your only Moat!"
Thanks for sharing such valuable insights JanSchu! B-)
A third and very valid one is: You are in a nice he market, be very well connected and buried into customers process and your customer care more about you as a person/consultant/delivery than going though the hassle of replacing you.
> 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.