The Death of SaaS

How AI will rewrite the rules of software, again

Aki Ranin
6 min readJun 21, 2024

At the beginning of my career, we didn’t have SaaS.

Tech companies would just build whatever they needed. Even smaller businesses had things like home-baked hour sheets, CRMs, or even ERPs. This is how we got “legacy software”. Mostly they were terrible, built by a rotation of poorly motivated summer interns, and everyone complained all the time.

Then SaaS happened. Just like there’s an app for that, there’s for sure a SaaS for that.

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Aki Ranin

Thinks about the future a lot. Founder of two startups. Lives in Singapore.