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Re:Layoffs at Block by heathrow83829 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:14PM (#47175491)
The biggest limiting factor is user acquisition. Just because you can build a competitor in a weekend doesn't mean you can easily acquire a user base. it's dam hard to get users even if your product is twice as good and your giving it away for free!
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Re:Layoffs at Block by Marsymars on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:30PM (#47175625)
The implied risk isn't more SaaS competitors, it's that B2B SaaS consumers will just code up their own product instead of going with a SaaS vendor.
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Re:Layoffs at Block by marcus_holmes on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:40PM (#47175705)
Started seeing even B2C folks just get the LLM to do it, or code up a quick solution that does most of it.
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