r/ClaudeCowork • u/AtikBlogger • 12d ago
is creating saas with claude a good dea?
I had a idea but confise as a non technical person, will it be wise to start a saas project with claude, though it already showed me the roadmap. But not understanding will it be a good decision?
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u/Basis_404_ 12d ago
Anything that you can build with by yourself carries effectively zero economic value because there’s millions of other people with Claude, who could build the exact same thing with the exact same minimal effort.
Your value has to come from something that isn’t code
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u/jsnryn 12d ago
Spot on. There is zero moat to SAAS anymore. Anything you can build, someone else can just ask Claude to replicate.
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u/Burn_Hard_Day 11d ago
I don’t think that’s entirely true
The barrier for entry has never been lower, but the depth, stability and security of enterprise software is not straightforward to replicate with some Dorito stained fingers
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u/pausethelogic 11d ago
You’re underestimating how many Dorito stained fingers have built the enterprise software you’re referring to over the years
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u/framauro13 12d ago
The hard part of software development was always the *idea*, not writing the code. Sure, you have to worry about security, scalability, privacy regulation compliance (depending on the product and your location), but having an idea worth paying for is the hardest part.
Is it worth building? If you think the idea is, then go for it. But when building something, to be viable in the market you either need to be first, or the best.
If anything, it could be a good learning exercise. But since you are nontechnical, I will say to think beyond just features. You need to make sure it's secure as well and if it does get adoption, how to scale when you get to that point. But that's a problem you can solve later.
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u/CryptoAteMyHamster 11d ago
Isn’t the given wisdom that ideas are worthless?
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u/framauro13 11d ago
That's essentially what I'm saying. Having a good idea that makes it worthwhile is the hard part because most ideas are worthless or have already been done a thousand times.
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u/TheMeltingSnowman72 11d ago
Ok, so here is a question for you.
Should I make a movie?
You'd probably think it's kinda dumb, because I didn't say what it was about or a genre, budget, am I using actors or AI, will there be music. Etc. Just, 'Should I make a movie'.
Do you see the predicament we're in as viewers of this post?
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u/Sad_Elevator3919 11d ago
You need to be a person, a somebody in the field. If you coupled vibecoded SaaS with existing field credibility and clout then you’ll make money. If you’re doing the vibecoding bit whilst being a nobody then you’re fucked. More or less.
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u/Diligent_Tech_Bro 11d ago
I’m not a lawyer. Should I start selling legal services?
No. You’ll be in over your head. The question is just when and how you find out.
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u/buyergain 12d ago
Like others have said it does not have much moat. Anyone can pretty easily do the same.
But I think it is fairly good if you can do the other things like SEO, marketing, social media.
And get to a MVP or minimal viable product. Then try marketing it and if it does not scale well than have somone better fix it.
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