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Pieter Levels

What Pieter Levels thinks about SaaS

@pieter-levels · 179 positions · 2 changes of mind · On ppll ↗

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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9 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingData brokers are purchasing SaaS data sets to resell to AI companies

    Their wordsData brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app

    ↗Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labslevels.io

  2. 4 days earlier

  3. Our readingPersonal software can remove reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and allow for a malleable, user-controlled computing environment.

    Their wordsPersonal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  4. 2 weeks earlier

  5. Our readingSaaS sales calls are usually meant to gauge how much a customer can spend and maximize revenue through custom plans.

    Their wordsUsually SaaS sales calls are to gauge how much you can spend and get you to spend the most money you could So it's like maximizing revenue and giving everyone a custom plan

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  6. 4 weeks earlier

  7. Our readingAI companies appear to be absorbing entire industries, including many where indie hackers operate, and the 'SaaSpocalypse' is at least partly real.

    Their wordsI think you have the real economic effects of AI companies sucking up entire industries now (a lot where indie hackers operate) I do think the SaaSpocalypse is at least partly real

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  9. Our readingA boring but non-superficial SaaS app that would have done well five years ago might now get no signups because tens of thousands can easily vibe code it.

    Their wordsA regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  10. 5 weeks earlier

  11. Our readingMost SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.

    Their wordsI cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs

    ↗I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myselflevels.io

  12. 5 days earlier

  13. Our readingThe app layer between the customer and the AI model is being removed, because customers can now clone the app themselves rather than pay for it.

    Their wordsSo you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!

    ↗AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip payinglevels.io

  14. 23 months earlier

  15. Our readingA solo maker has to charge at least $30 a month per user; Netflix-style $10 pricing only works for a giant company.

    Their wordsYou need to make at least $30 or more on a user to make it worth it for you. You need to make money.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 17th of 30 in this recording

  17. Our readingThe price on a vendor's website is not the real price: ask for a discount and many will give you 25% or 50% off.

    Their wordsA lot of them will say yes, 25% discount, 50% discount. Because you think the price on the website is the price of the API or something. It’s not.

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 18th of 30 in this recording