some x.com influencer claiming that they built a one man company with agents doing everything. Like, hey Claude - create a staffing automation company and a swarm of agents search, reach out, follow ups, and AI voice calls etc. Its bs marketing, I get it but "what if this comes true, not now but in future?" - drives the anxiety. The sandwich framework sounds great until the decision and accountability is passed on to AI with guardrails. The AI in its current state is great to take the feedback and decide the next course of actions.
users didnt ask for slow apis either but there they are. I am speaking for the user here and sharing their frustration. Allowing UI modification to fit the user needs should be a default now. The APIs already act as a gaurdrail on what's possible
I created that twitter responder after reading this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568028). That wasn't to call out what SaaS companies should prioratise but to show how easy it would be for a user to do it.
these embeddable UI could be a direct ask on how users want a workflow, the SaaS vendors can distribute the embeddable UI and see if it clicks with a lot of users. Would push them to create a stable API
> In the end, your obligation as a company, regardless of your product, is to generate profits.
No denying that. SaaS started with a user problem at the center of it and as they scaled, forgot about an individual user. This only presents the user frustration and a possible solution to it.
I think the right step would be to somehow communicate to the vendor that this feature is needed (eliminating the PM backlog BS) and their coding Agents should pick it and build it. The real moat they have is SaaS vendors have everyone believe that trivial feature requests take time to implement.
we took a basic example and described it. (will try adding a complex one)
we have our designer/intern in our minds who creates shorts, adds subtiles, crops them,and merges the audio generated. He is aware of ffmpeg and prefers using a SaaS UI on top of it.
However, we see him hanging out on chatgpt, or gemini all the time. He is literally the no coder we have in mind.
We just combined his type what you want + ffmpeg workflows.