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I've noticed something weird about SaaS lately. The barrier to building software is dropping, but getting people to actually use it is still hard. That creates an interesting situation. Imagine two founders. Founder A spends 12 months building a product with 50 features. Founder B spends 2 weeks building a product with 10 features using AI. Both target the same customers. Both solve the same problem. Founder B charges less. Now what? Does Founder A have an advantage because the product is more mature? Or did Founder B just skip 11 months of work that no longer matters? Here's the part I'm curious about: If building software becomes cheap, does the value of a SaaS company shift almost entirely toward customer relationships, distribution, and understanding the market? Because if that's true, we might be entering a period where the best developer isn't necessarily the founder who wins. The founder who understands why customers buy, why they leave, and what they need next might have the bigger advantage. But there's another possibility: AI makes competition so intense that even good distribution stops being enough. I'd love to hear different perspectives: If you launched a SaaS today, would you prioritize building the best product or acquiring your first 100 customers? Have you seen a smaller competitor beat an established product simply by moving faster? What do you think will separate profitable SaaS companies from the thousands of products that will launch over the next few years? I'm interested in actual experiences, especially from founders who've had to compete for the same customers. Is the product still the business, or is the product becoming the easiest part of the business?   submitted by   /u/More_Procedure357 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/10 13:10:15