AI builds your SaaS in days, but ops and marketing eat the savings
sven_ai · x · 2026-10-23
A resonant indie-hacker observation: with Codex or Claude Code, shipping a SaaS can take days, but post-launch realities—Stripe payments, user signup, email deliverability, SEO, support, refunds, taxes—quickly consume all the time AI coding saved.
The takeaway: developers must learn marketing; code generation is no longer the bottleneck, distribution and operations are.
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