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0 pointsfalloutx1mo ago0 comments

> Your in-house teams can build replacements, it's just a matter of headcount. With Claude, you can build it and staff it and have time left over. Then your investment pays dividends instead of being a subscription straight jacket you have to keep renting.

Lets take Figma as an example, Imagine you have 1000 employees, 300 of them need Figma, so you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses. You can afford 1 employee working on your own internal Figma. you are paying the same but getting 100x worst experience, unless your 1 employee with CC can somehow find and copy important parts of Figma on his own, deploy and keep it running through the year without issues, which sounds ludicrous.

If you have less than 1000 employees it wouldnt even make sense to have 1 employee doing Figma

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pixl971mo ago

>Lets take Figma as an example, Imagine you have 1000 employees, 300 of them need Figma, so you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses.

I mean in an example that almost happened... "you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses, Adobe buys it, you are paying 500k per year in Figma licenses"

At least up until the point of vibe coding it was still worth the SaaS provider charging at least as much if not slightly more than you doing it yourself because most businesses weren't going to anyway.

falloutxOP1mo ago

By that logic, people should never use any Saas products because someday the price will increase. Then why even use Claude Code, someday they will get sick of losing money and increase the price to $1000/month.

pixl971mo ago

I mean, yes it is a potential company ending risk if the continuation of your business depends on said SaaS product.

echelon1mo ago

I mean, for that example there's even less to do: you just put your employees directly on Nano Banana or one of the simple Nano Banana wrappers.

If you need rich outputs, there are tools for that now too.

Let me put it another way - would you want to be Adobe or Figma right now?

And applied to the original point, would you feel comfortable being a SaaS company right now?

falloutxOP1mo ago

> you just put your employees directly on Nano Banana or one of the simple Nano Banana wrappers.

So you end up spending the money elsewhere? with exploratory design you can easily spend 10k a month on these models as a company of 1000, thus completely losing any monetary savings. Anyway you look at it, Saas worked because costs were spread out and low enough to not optimize it too much.

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0 pointsfalloutx1mo ago0 comments

If you have less than 1000 employees it wouldnt even make sense to have 1 employee doing Figma

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pixl971mo ago

>Lets take Figma as an example, Imagine you have 1000 employees, 300 of them need Figma, so you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses.

I mean in an example that almost happened... "you are paying 120k per year in Figma licenses, Adobe buys it, you are paying 500k per year in Figma licenses"

falloutxOP1mo ago

pixl971mo ago

I mean, yes it is a potential company ending risk if the continuation of your business depends on said SaaS product.

echelon1mo ago

I mean, for that example there's even less to do: you just put your employees directly on Nano Banana or one of the simple Nano Banana wrappers.

If you need rich outputs, there are tools for that now too.

Let me put it another way - would you want to be Adobe or Figma right now?

And applied to the original point, would you feel comfortable being a SaaS company right now?

falloutxOP1mo ago

> you just put your employees directly on Nano Banana or one of the simple Nano Banana wrappers.

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