He ditched a $300/year YouTube research tool — Claude rebuilt it in 5 minutes
petergyang · x · 2026-10-03
petergyang shares that he was paying almost $300/year for a YouTube research tool. When the product got too complicated, he checked whether Claude could build just the core feature set he actually needed — Claude did it in 5 minutes.
A telling example of AI-enabled self-building replacing SaaS subscriptions: when you only use a fraction of a paid product's features, having a model generate your own lean version may beat renewing.
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