Is SaaS still the future, or are we moving toward personal software?
For the last few months I’ve had the same weird experience over and over again.
I’d go looking for an app — notes, voice notes, flashcards, VPN, some productivity thing — and at first it would look good. Nice landing page, polished UI, confident copy, some “AI-powered” label on top. For the first five minutes I’d think, okay, maybe this is the one.
Then the same thing would happen.
It wasn’t exactly what I wanted.
Not bad. Just… wrong in a very specific way.
Too many features I didn’t need. Missing one thing I actually cared about. Locked behind a subscription too early. Data going to someone else’s servers. “AI features” that were basically just a few fixed prompts with a paywall on top.
And after trying enough of these apps, I started thinking something slightly dangerous:
why am I still adapting myself to software, instead of software adapting itself...
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