Episode notes
SaaS isn't dead. UI is. The moat just moved.
Assaf Weinberg (Co-Founder & CEO, SetSale) joins Andrew Duncan to dismantle the LinkedIn narratives about software in the age of AI: "code is free," "SaaS is dead," and the founder myth that hiring a developer is the bottleneck.
Chapters
- 00:00 The biggest limit on AI is what you believe it can do
- 01:23 Building SetSale before AI tools existed
- 04:31 Supastarter and the portal boilerplate origin
- 06:47 Why the cost of software isn't zero
- 07:43 The "I just need a developer" myth
- 11:09 Every software company is a data transformation engine
- 13:58 Why SaaS isn't dead
- 17:08 Capture your data or AI can't help you
- 22:20 The Austin distributor story: four days to ship
- 27:34 Art ...