AI founder's pivot: Why I stopped replacing SaaS and started building personal tooling
msg · x · 2026-08-19
An interview with AI builder Blake Eastman, discussing his pivot from trying to replace SaaS products like Riverside and Asana with AI to focusing on personal tooling. He realized the heavy infrastructure and maintenance burden of mature software. His current approach favors products with APIs, CLIs, and MCPs. The episode also covers using PostHog/Sentry for LLM monitoring, using Agentation for visual-to-instruction workflows, and his "85% rule" for scoping experiments.
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