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by pembrook 253 days ago
I see "Get a demo" as the only call-to-action and a bunch of other venture-backed Saas startups as your customers...so I'm guessing pricing will be...high.

This might sound vaguely pessimistic, but I'm getting the nagging feeling lately that we might be inflating a ponzi scheme of B2B saas selling exclusively to other B2B saas companies for niche B2B saas use cases.

In earlier generations of Saas the assumption was you land and expand from there to wider markets. But this seems so specifically tailored to the needs of other VC-funded B2B Saas companies...

As the things that fall under [vibe code-able in 1 hour] expands, at what point does building platforms like this for semi-technical B2B Saas employees not make sense any more?

Like, if you're smart enough to figure out an agent that connects the OpenAI API to the Zendesk API can automate something...at what point do you just set it up yourself instead of dealing with the sales vultures at [insert YC startup] and also fighting your own internal procurement process...just so you might be able to have that agent running in 1-6 months?

In enterprise I can totally see value in having help during setup and an external throat to choke when things go wrong, but at that point, isn't that a consulting agency masquerading as a Saas platform?

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