I see it the same way. Why would we rebuild a custom solution when $10 per user has it all?

SaaS was always about the service part and works better when other companies use the same tool.

Unique software specific to business needs will get more interesting though.

Usually its cause the market movers force anyone not moving towards the billionaire VC businness has to raise their cost.

This is usually masked by vertical integrate and buyout of competition.

So either your servicd raises prces to avoid buyout or it gets bought.

This is the lifecycle of SaaS tho. It opens up opportunities for competitors to launch and build something more nieche, which is good for customers. And then it repeats

Yeah, it repeats until fascism shows up and decides the billionaire class and nepo babies is all "we" need.

Do you think this applies to only cheap software?

I assume expensive SaaS is generally very complicated nothing you can vibecode in a weekend, but I assume if someone is selling $50 SaaS, someone else will vibe code it and sell for $20

Or someone will sell calendly kind of app $10 for a year.

Or maybe everyone will rely on popular brands and this won’t make any meaningful difference in the market other than few categories.

Why pay a subscription price even? Maybe we can go back to paying once for a version of a product, and that's it.