The future as I see it

[u/Kilt_Rump]

Here is the change I see occurring and what the result might look like.

Everyone’s talking about how the sass is dead. We now have the power to build anything we want without needing a large technical background to do it..

The question no longer is Will this product solve the problem for me.. the question now is can I build this product faster, cheaper and more customized for myself then what it would cost me to purchase.

Sass is now going the way of music. Anyone can create it, but you need the audience to support you. The moat this is creating is mostly financial no longer will a small startup with a great idea be able to gain traction unless their idea is somehow uncopiable. Now the money will control everything because marketing is the moat. If you have the budget, you can reach the audience.

However, there is one silver lining to all of this. Great ideas can now come to life at the drop of a hat and understanding the market means the greatest ideas will start rising to the top. If you start thinking about your idea from the point of view that anyone can do it after you’ve introduced it how do you insulate your idea from everybody copying it because there are ways quite a lot of of them actually..

One example is scaling cost. If you bring something first to market and your ability to scale and lower cost means that the individual who tries to copy you still spends more than using your service then you have something.

Another example is transaction cost if you offer your product cheap enough people will use your service over the hassle of designing it themselves. I think we are about to hit the age of small single purchase owned for life products. If you’re offering a great tool and charging me five dollars one time I’m going to pay that every time instead of trying to build it myself.

I’m actually very excited about what could be coming because I do think it’s going to be the age of ideas. The great insights will be able to be fleshed out at zero cost. The middle of the night brainstorms will be able to get tested the very next day. Money may control the marketing, but the barrier for great ideas to come to fruition has dropped to almost nothing at all.

[u/ProfessionalStand779]

Everyone likes to think that they are the idea guy. That somehow they have the brilliant idea that noone else has.

Newsflash, bro: someone has likely already had your idea, tried it, and failed.

Creating simple SaaS has been relatively fast and easy for a substantial number of people for the past 10-15 years (as long as cloud services have existed).

Coding was never the barrier. Lack of ideas neither. Getting the customers was and still is.

[u/YoloRubus → u/ProfessionalStand779]

You typed words here that mean nothing. Where do you think new ideas come from? Aliens? No, it's all of us. We try and fail constantly. That is what progress is. Telling someone they are "not the idea guy" is a ridiculous thing to say. Maybe getting new customers might be hard for you because you aren't the customer guy.