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Start free trial →Mostly Technical · Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS · November 2026
Aaron had argued that AI is eating SaaS beyond indie hackers, citing a CRM vendor whose customers were leaving to build in-house. Ian sets out the test that would prove him wrong.
Yeah. So I would say, well, I would say a couple things. First on the Laura Rotor, I think that's totally in the like.
That's in your wheelhouse. Yeah.
Right. Like you, you my line on this, right? To be fair, because Jesse always falsely claims I said that this isn't happening, which is not at all true. I think the interesting line to watch where I will consider myself very wrong is if a significant portion of these companies that end up building their own tools for things are not like founder owned and rotten because that's the line, right? Like if I can save $300 and I'm the founder, that's $300 back to me, right? So like that, there is a much higher level of motivation there to take on those risks because now I have $4,000 more a year literally in my pocket. We
love $4,000. Yep.
Right. So once you have a manager who making a decision is a totally different thing with totally different trade-offs at all. So to me, that's like the line of people below that line who like get going with AI and are like, ah, like I can replace this with AI, I can place that with AI. I think…
people, something like that. Right. Like