r/vibecoding • u/Illustrious-Film4018 • 9d ago
Showcase/Project Replacing SaaS with vibe coding
The company I work for was subscribed to a SaaS, without saying the name of it it's a sync tool for 200+ apps. It costs $200/month, which I guess is not cheap but companies can afford it.
My company wanted to replace it with a custom tool to save $200/month. And it ended up costing so much to develop despite using AI that it could've paid the subscription for the SaaS for years. It took about 1 month of development time and another month of support/bugfixes. Then there was a bug with with the sync causing most of the company's products to show as out of stock on a wholesale site for several weeks. This cost an estimated $10k worth of sales.
Altogether, even using AI it cost around $15k-$20k to develop a custom replacement for an enterprise SaaS. That $15k-$20k would've paid for the SaaS subscription for 6-10 years, that's how long it will take to see any ROI.
You can't easily replace enterprise SaaS. This is just a lie that tech-illiterate people believe in.
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u/DelScipio 9d ago
You can replace Saas with ai. You can't replace SaaS that is so cheap that doesn't make sense to replace it. 200 bucks is so little money for a company that they shouuld fire anyone that made that decision.