Bennett on SignUp Genius, the ad-heavy form tool the parents at his kids' school use. He's close to building a free replacement on a Cloudflare worker, and says he'll keep paying only for software that solves a genuinely hard problem.
…that you bought as a SaaS, not any piece of software. Like I'm still paying for tuple, right? Like it's a complex problem to solve. And it's like, you know, you got to get it right sort of thing. But like this trivial sort of crud anything, which is basically everything we've been talking about.
Yeah.
Is just, it's like that sort of section or segment of the market as far as like people organizing your information for you is just so inexpensive anymore. And you can't justify the cost of these things. And like paper form, right? Or like type type form, whatever these things are, which is basically just like a fancy form. That's it. Like, man alive, that is so simple. There's this one called Sign Up Genius. Have you ever heard of this? Sign up genius? Okay. It's just a signup form thing. And like, for some reason, all the moms at our school end up using it. And I just hate it. It's so god-awful. It looks terrible. It's like full of ads. And I'm about, I'm right on the cusp of being like, I'm just going to make something that's just called sign up smarty or something. I don't know. But and just be like, it's just so bad. I'm like, it looks. terrible and I'll provide it for free. It costs, it'll cost nothing to run on like a Cloudflare worker or something. It's not that big of a deal. But you, you know, it's hard to, it's hard to look at these things…
Sure. There's like definitely more software being written. There's not more software being sold.
Oh my gosh. Yes. That's exactly correct. That is exactly correct. We are pushing so many features. It's unreal how much stuff we're getting done at work. So many things we're building. Tell you what. The amount of stuff
that is being done can be done is possible. And yet I'm doing an integration at the moment that we like started in. We kick off the conversation, I think, like this time last year. And then February was the last week. Are you serious? Like the last we heard from this partner was in February. Oh…
