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My office has cut down SaaS costs by a couple of tens of grand a year, simply by making our own versions using LLMs. It is not that we didn't have the expertis
by TrackerFF 1mo ago
My office has cut down SaaS costs by a couple of tens of grand a year, simply by making our own versions using LLMs.
It is not that we didn't have the expertise to do so to begin with, but it would simply have been too expensive and time consuming. That was solved once the models became good enough.
There's a lot of money in the SaaS world, where the products are both unglamorous and one-trick pony-ish. Making your product LLM-proof can be challenging today, unless you happen to own a lot of data or lots of compute, and those two are the drivers behind your product.
- baxtr 1mo agoDo you mind sharing the SaaS you were able to replace? If you don’t want to share the name, category would be interesting as well.
- RSHEPP 1mo agoFor my small team we are not creating our versions, we're just more likely to find a self hostable version and use an LLM to help setup in production. For us it's a middle ground between the build your own SaaS and paying $10ks. But in some instances we do still pay for the other company to own the on call.