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brennan
@brennan.computer

I think this is exactly the math that is going to drastically change the small SaaS landscape why would I pay monthly for <tool> when the same cost (maybe less!) can make that and also anything else I need

Nick Fisher@hydroxide.dev

I pay $100 a month for Xero (accounting software), and I do wonder if upgrading to Claude Code Max for a month or two would pay for itself to write a robust replacement. It probably won’t get bank feed imports right, but that’s broken in Xero for some accounts anyway.

William
@williampetruzzo.com

I think it’ll change the landscape more in pressure on price as alternatives crop up. I’ve coded my way out of at least one expensive subscription. But you still need to be good at project management and at least get the theory of the architecture you’re building or else it’ll be fragile as hell.

William
@williampetruzzo.com

I think it’s still a really long ways away from an average person asking for what they need and the system giving it back to them functional, durable and iterable. The average person doesn’t really even know how to ask for what they need.

brennan
@brennan.computer

+1, totally there's very different markets, skills and appetites between randos like us rolling our own tools (very rare) and some median dev who is already in charge of trying to chip away at some corpo need themselves suddenly having more powers

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William
@williampetruzzo.com

I suspect we’ll see more bundling of tools into suits at a lower cost. Corporate environments will have less tolerance for nickel and dimed features at $19/month. Tool sets just need to be cheaper than paying an in house person to build and maintain everything themselves + security concerns.