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thot_experimentyesterday at 10:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's a SaaS, when in the history of SaaS has it ever been a good idea to trust that the company won't ruin the product under you?


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booiyesterday at 10:04 PM

I think there's a pretty big difference here. It's not like Github prevents you from building a Github competitor. Or Linear is preventing you from using it to build a Linear competitor.

This is more akin to Windows somehow preventing you from building a new OS.

Or worse yet, sabotaging vs preventing.

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rhubarbtreeyesterday at 10:26 PM

Most of the time, which is why SaaS has been very popular.

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extryesterday at 11:28 PM

Really funny to describe OpenAI/Anthropic as a "SaaS"

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