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by Terr_ 657 days ago
> Isn't all SaaS just wrappers?

Hahahahahah*gasp*ahahahah! Oh, I almost wish that were true!

My current workplace? There's stuff like a custom flowchart-language, with pseudo-programs that differ for each customer and have to match their implicit remote business rules. It talks to dozens of different APIs of other products of which a given customer might use a few, and each have their own unique insanities, like breaking HTTP specs, or falling over with just a little traffic so that we need our own caching layers.

Then there are some revenue-generating features that are basically custom-glue logic for synchronization and hand-offs between those client-systems, because not all clients are able/willing to develop a nice one-stop centralized management system of their own as a precondition of doing business with us and using our primary features.

> Not sure why these "GPT Wrapper" companies are getting so much hate.

Because they are that kind of lame shovelware and thin wrappers designed to extract money from the confused.