| ▲ | liquidise 6 hours ago |
| We recently went through a version of this with Asana when we discovered their "per seat" pricing is sold in groups of 5 seats. Going from 5->6 users adjusts your bill to 5->10 seats, doubling your price. It isn't about the money, the principle is gross. Thankfully Asana's core business is now a prompt. We are nearly done replacing it with a native, self hosted client. Will post about it once it is hardened through use. Cancelling our Asana subscription this week. To SaaS providers (myself included) it has never been easier to leave your service due to mistreatment. Take note. |
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| ▲ | pwython 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Similar story here, except we went from Jira to a custom Plane.so build. Everyone from product to engineering loves it, gets features they want added quickly. And for me, I mainly have Claude keep track of everything (mcp). |
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| ▲ | eastbound 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Jira billing administration will remain as a business school case study of dark patterns for years. Can't wait for the EU to put their nose into it. |
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| ▲ | aunty_helen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Loom was another recent one. $10/month -> 200 something. Why? Apparently people with the same domain as me now required an account including developers who left the company 3 years ago. |
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| ▲ | tartieret 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| same, I transitioned my teams from asana to linear this week, saving money for better product |
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| ▲ | tra3 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Asana's core business is now a prompt What do you mean? Like a claude code one shot prompt? |
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| ▲ | kxrm 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > one shot prompt Not OP, but definitely not a one shot prompt. However because of AI it takes far less resources to replicate services like these rather quickly. | | |
| ▲ | tra3 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s what I thought. I wonder if that’s true though. I’m sure 80% take no time but actually productizing it takes forever. Now you’ve got a maintenance burden too. I’m really curious how long it would take to implement harvest and the ecosystem around it these days. | | |
| ▲ | gofreddygo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Its a problem but it isn't. Home grown product isn't going to match a saas product's features. But you dont need most of it anyway. so home grown gets the job done. Till it hits entropy or the roi is gone. Problems will show up a few months / years down till it isn't worth the effort or the savings. Saas products that survive this AI wave are going to come out stronger on the other end. | |
| ▲ | joefitzgerald 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It took me about 10 days to update an existing business app that I used to include functionality replacing harvest time tracking, invoicing (with a far superior QBO sync, saving us days of people time per month), and forecasting (Forecast was never well integrated with Harvest). Yes, we are picking up a maintenance burden but the 10x price increase in our case made it a very easy cost/benefit equation, and I decided that as a primary technology in a consulting business it was worth controlling it. | | |
| ▲ | tra3 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | How much time do you expect you’ll spend improving it? In other words, are you going to keep adding features? Trying to understand what the LLMs mean to the saas world. Will you have to become a time tracking/invoicing pro? Where’s the break even I wonder. | | |
| ▲ | hdjrudni 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it's an internal app, you stop adding features when you have all the features you need. I've vibe-rebuilt several apps for myself and after a certain point I don't feel like anything is missing so I just stop touching it entirely except to fix a rare bug here and there. |
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| ▲ | bredren 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think it is a figure of speech. I built a markdown editor and viewer to better than the best I've bought or used in the macos App Store in 81 prompts. I've built a very good ticketing system and it took a lot more prompts than that. |
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| ▲ | yakirzana an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | 1123581321 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So, you’ve spent a good amount of time on it, to where you hope there’s only a week left, it does a lot less, is less accessible, you can’t fully use it yet, and it’s buggy. I think the only lesson for SaaS providers, yourself and myself included, is how willing people are to cut off their noses to spite their faces. :) |
