SaaS used to be viable for easy-ish business problems so long as it saved people time and money, but I think that increasingly people will just build their own solutions for those things. Still room for products that know the industry very well and help people manage complex things seamlessly, but curious to see where this all goes.
Knowing code ins and out is quickly becoming unnecessary, but knowing what makes a good product and digging into customer needs is the true value now. It was valuable before, but building the product was often the most time consuming skilled labor piece.
And this is the worst it will ever be! It is notable that without at least a high level architecture understanding, this would have been harder. Persistence, stripe and auth0 callbacks both took a few tries to get right until I realized I need to build them very incrementally.
So yes, the product ins and outs start to matter more, but eng expertise doesn’t disappear IMO. And the hardest part is still distribution.
SaaS used to be viable for easy-ish business problems so long as it saved people time and money, but I think that increasingly people will just build their own solutions for those things. Still room for products that know the industry very well and help people manage complex things seamlessly, but curious to see where this all goes.
Knowing code ins and out is quickly becoming unnecessary, but knowing what makes a good product and digging into customer needs is the true value now. It was valuable before, but building the product was often the most time consuming skilled labor piece.
Wild times
And this is the worst it will ever be! It is notable that without at least a high level architecture understanding, this would have been harder. Persistence, stripe and auth0 callbacks both took a few tries to get right until I realized I need to build them very incrementally.
So yes, the product ins and outs start to matter more, but eng expertise doesn’t disappear IMO. And the hardest part is still distribution.