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bortimus • today at 5:26 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

So, what's the moat?


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jeffan • today at 5:42 PM

Hey there, I'm Jeff (one of the founders). To be honest I don't know if there is or will be any kind of moat in SaaS. But today:

1/ General purpose models are still not good at this task. I would personally love it if I could trust my agent when it says its done after a 24h build. But whether it's because of sycophancy, context degradation over time, or something else coding agents still struggle to verify their own work. Maybe with 1B context windows this will change.

2/ Infra is still annoying to setup. We wanted to provide a unified interface across web, mobile and soon desktop as well. So users don't have to worry about provisioning, concurrency, security, etc.

3/ As with any SaaS, even beyond the initial build, maintenance is a headache. I think most companies would rather not consider agentic QA as one of their core competencies and investments. It takes a ton of eng effort to keep the lights on, continually update the models used, train new ones, groom ground truth, onboard infra providers, etc.

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Aboutplants • today at 5:31 PM

The moat is about a week before the frontier models integrate the same capabilities. They aren’t snapping up projects like this for talent acquisitions anymore, they will just build it themselves.

sercand • today at 5:37 PM

we also build similar product in-house for our apps.

0xy • today at 5:36 PM

I have something similar I made for my side project. You don't really need a platform for this.

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