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A first-person record of what happens when one founder uses AI to build, operate, connect, rethink and sometimes stop SaaS products.
These are SaaSYeti original founder articles, not independent media coverage. Future third-party features can sit alongside them in a separate Featured Elsewhere section.
AI has made it possible for one founder to build software at a pace that once seemed unrealistic. But after creating dozens of SaaS tools, Craig Galloway discovered that faster coding creates an entirely new set of problems.
AI can make building a SaaS application remarkably fast. But every new app creates another database, dependency, integration, backup and responsibility. Operating the software became harder than creating it.
I wanted an AI system that understood my products, customers, decisions and SaaS business, so I built one. It worked — and that was exactly why I had to ask whether it should continue existing.
AI tokens can cost pennies, while a badly designed feature can consume hours for years. The biggest hidden cost of AI software is often everything you inherit after the application works.
Building one SaaS product with AI is increasingly achievable. Building an interconnected ecosystem of products, shared services and customer journeys is a very different challenge.
What if customers and community members were involved before the product existed? Build SaaS with AI is becoming an experiment in community-influenced product development.
Founder stories often become cleaner after the fact. SaaSYeti is deliberately keeping the wrong turns, abandoned products and technical mistakes in the public record.
The relationship between company size and software capability is changing. AI, automation and shared infrastructure are creating a new kind of one-person software company.
ChatGPT began as a faster way to write and fix code. Its larger value appeared in product strategy, architecture, debugging, research, marketing, documentation and deciding when not to build.
If I started my AI-assisted SaaS journey again tomorrow, I would still build with AI — but I would make very different decisions about what deserves to become software.