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swyx's hackathon tests AI cloning of a $43,000 SaaS product

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swyx and the AI Engineer team ran a global hackathon challenging participants to clone a real $43,000-per-year SaaS tool they use, using any models and harnesses.

The event drew 72 submissions, combined manual human evaluations with about 100B tokens of model usage, and awarded a $10,000 Kill My SaaS prize.

The post promises the collected data, the difficulties of replacing mid-tier SaaS, and interviews with the winners.

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🆕 How to Kill Your SaaS

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A lot of people talk about the death of SaaS but mostly in theoretical terms. We took a real $43,000/year SaaS we use and launched a global hackathon to clone it in a weekend, with both AI and REAL HUMAN evals, using any models any harness.

72 submissions, a lot of manual evals and ~100B tokens later, here are the results

In this special @latentspacepod edition we share the data collected, what's still hard about killing nontrivial, midtier SaaS, and reveal the winners of the $10,000 Kill My SaaS contest with qualitative interviews!

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