Latent Space cloned a $43K/yr SaaS with AI agents: 72 teams, $10K winner, lessons learned
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-10-14
Latent Space ran a "Kill My SaaS" contest after a conference speaker-management SaaS quoted $43,000/year. 72 teams built clones using coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, judged by the actual human events team. Valentin De Matos's OpenRostrum won $10K, followed by Conferencer and Trackstage. The video covers how top builders split work between Claude Code and Codex, why their AI judge ranked the winner 19th, the three mistakes nearly every clone made, and why owning software differs from building it. Includes the winner's agent guardrails template and a Harness Engineering 101 writeup.
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