I find myself pushed to develop tools of my own because even market incumbents can't meet my niche use cases for certain things.

In the same vein, I am trying not to feel dismayed as I venture into the SaaS landscape in a bid to decouple myself from employment and you cannot help but feel your product is doomed before it even launches given people can build their own solutions.

You just need to remember, not everyone is as technical as the people here and those individuals still require solutions to problems.

It's tiring hearing people say "oh well I'll just build it instead" yeah but is it maintainable? Does it scale? Do you know how your data is handled and saved?

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