u/Beginning-Eye-3165

You can build your own SaaS in 1 day, bla bla bla.

Yes, I hear it every single day. I'm a Principal Engineer at a $1bln GMV SaaS, and I have multiple side projects. For my side projects I use lots of small tools, for outreach, directories, SEO, etc. Let me tell you, 90% of them are shit, unusable crap, and the founders (vibe-coders) have the audacity to say: "we don't have refunds" Yes, you do, because you didn't even collect consent to your policy...

The quality baseline is so low that it's ridiculous. I used Distribb (not a promotion, don't use this crap), and nothing worked: SEO analysis broken, Reddit outreach broken, blogs not generating, social media posting broken. They have 5 products in one, and not a single one worked. I'm not even kidding...

So the whole premise of "anyone can build their own SaaS" is ridiculous. I see it with my own eyes; those are not SaaS, those are barely working websites that should not have seen the light of day.

What about actually established companies that have developer teams? Oh boy. For the past month we've dealt with 15 incidents related to our email, SMS, and security infrastructure. We had a free trial for small businesses; the expensive plans are all behind onboarding, but the cheapest plan is a free trial. In the past month, we've recorded dozens of thousands of new signups who've been abusing every single endpoint that they can possibly find, exploiting code that had been sitting there for 10 years.

We patched one gap with the SMS flow, they found a new one; we patched that, they went to our AI assistant; we rate limited that, and now it's time to destroy our email SES reputation.

We've collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in developer costs to patch and rate limit hundreds of endpoints, and frankly the free plan right now is so unusable, since it requires so many verifications and has so many limits, half the features are gated, that I think a hard paywall will make more sense. So basically our generous free plan that allowed using the product for nearly a decade has been enshittified to being barely usable, and to lift some of the limits a customer would need to contact customer support, since those are high risk.

If you though AI is ruining your Reddit and X feed, nope, it makes everything worse, even the software (especially the software) you use every single day.

You can build your own SaaS in 1 day, bla bla bla.

Yes, I hear it every single day. I'm a Principal Engineer at a $1bln GMV SaaS, and I have multiple side projects. For my side projects I use lots of small tools, for outreach, directories, SEO, etc. Let me tell you, 90% of them are shit, unusable crap, and the founders (vibe-coders) have the audacity to say: "we don't have refunds" Yes, you do, because you didn't even collect consent to your policy...

The quality baseline is so low that it's ridiculous. I used Distribb (not a promotion, don't use this crap), and nothing worked: SEO analysis broken, Reddit outreach broken, blogs not generating, social media posting broken. They have 5 products in one, and not a single one worked. I'm not even kidding...

So the whole premise of "anyone can build their own SaaS" is ridiculous. I see it with my own eyes; those are not SaaS, those are barely working websites that should not have seen the light of day.

What about actually established companies that have developer teams? Oh boy. For the past month we've dealt with 15 incidents related to our email, SMS, and security infrastructure. We had a free trial for small businesses; the expensive plans are all behind onboarding, but the cheapest plan is a free trial. In the past month, we've recorded dozens of thousands of new signups who've been abusing every single endpoint that they can possibly find, exploiting code that had been sitting there for 10 years.

We patched one gap with the SMS flow, they found a new one; we patched that, they went to our AI assistant; we rate limited that, and now it's time to destroy our email SES reputation.

We've collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in developer costs to patch and rate limit hundreds of endpoints, and frankly the free plan right now is so unusable, since it requires so many verifications and has so many limits, half the features are gated, that I think a hard paywall will make more sense. So basically our generous free plan that allowed using the product for nearly a decade has been enshittified to being barely usable, and to lift some of the limits a customer would need to contact customer support, since those are high risk.

If you though AI is ruining your Reddit and X feed, nope, it makes everything worse, even the software (especially the software) you use every single day.

You can build your own SaaS in 1 day, bla bla bla.

Yes, I hear it every single day. I'm a Principal Engineer at a $1bln GMV SaaS, and I have multiple side projects. For my side projects I use lots of small tools, for outreach, directories, SEO, etc. Let me tell you, 90% of them are shit, unusable crap, and the founders (vibe-coders) have the audacity to say: "we don't have refunds" Yes, you do, because you didn't even collect consent to your policy...

The quality baseline is so low that it's ridiculous. I used Distribb (not a promotion, don't use this crap), and nothing worked: SEO analysis broken, Reddit outreach broken, blogs not generating, social media posting broken. They have 5 products in one, and not a single one worked. I'm not even kidding...

So the whole premise of "anyone can build their own SaaS" is ridiculous. I see it with my own eyes; those are not SaaS, those are barely working websites that should not have seen the light of day.

What about actually established companies that have developer teams? Oh boy. For the past month we've dealt with 15 incidents related to our email, SMS, and security infrastructure. We had a free trial for small businesses; the expensive plans are all behind onboarding, but the cheapest plan is a free trial. In the past month, we've recorded dozens of thousands of new signups who've been abusing every single endpoint that they can possibly find, exploiting code that had been sitting there for 10 years.

We patched one gap with the SMS flow, they found a new one; we patched that, they went to our AI assistant; we rate limited that, and now it's time to destroy our email SES reputation.

We've collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in developer costs to patch and rate limit hundreds of endpoints, and frankly the free plan right now is so unusable, since it requires so many verifications and has so many limits, half the features are gated, that I think a hard paywall will make more sense. So basically our generous free plan that allowed using the product for nearly a decade has been enshittified to being barely usable, and to lift some of the limits a customer would need to contact customer support, since those are high risk.

If you though AI is ruining your Reddit and X feed, nope, it makes everything worse, even the software (especially the software) you use every single day.

If you already achieved that, how you did it, was it Reddit, Twitter, cold emails? Share your story, genuinely interested.

EDIT: No, I don't want to hear about your "innovative outreach tool", keep your bots away from this post.