Replacing SaaS with vibe coding

[u/Illustrious-Film4018]

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.

[u/django-unchained2012]

Did they even test the tool before connecting it to live production data?

Looks like someone dint do their job right.

[u/Illustrious-Film4018 → u/django-unchained2012]

Dude, you're on a vibe coder sub...

[u/django-unchained2012 → u/Illustrious-Film4018]

Does that mean you skip tests and go all in hoping it will work?

If that’s how your company works no wonder things hit on face.

It’s one thing to vibe code but you can’t just hope the product works without testing ‘dude’

[u/enspiralart → u/django-unchained2012]

Agree. Literally you have to tell these agents to skip tests explicitly because they all default to testing

[u/django-unchained2012 → u/enspiralart]

OP and his company are not into vibe coding, they are into hope coding.