[davnicwil]

This won't happen in most cases because the valuable thing is largely the knowledge encoded in the software, which the buyers of the software don't have and don't want to have since they're focused on their own business.

There's also, of course, the not insignificant value in the software itself actually working, being operated, being updated when necessary, all of that. Again just extra hassle no business will want to shoulder when they can just buy something that does it for them.

[computerdork]

agreed. Also, data security, data compliance, legal, customer support, operations... Yeah, SaaS is not going anywhere soon.

[ai_fry_ur_brain]

Why would I build my own CRM instead of paying 50k a year or whatever? The engineer plus tokens for maintenance will cost you way more than 50k.

These people are delusional and just repeating delusional vibe coder tweets.

[bix6]

Not every business has $50k for a CRM

[human305893]

Hell, there is a lot of really good open source software that fits most peoples needs already, that can be self hosted and costs nothing but the running of it. But people still pay for the SaaS product. Because you're not just paying for software. you're paying for support, uptime, compliance etc. These people think that SaaS is dead confuse me.