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swyx's hackathon tests AI cloning of a $43,000-a-year SaaS tool

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swyx and the AI Engineer team ran a global hackathon asking participants to clone a real $43,000-per-year SaaS tool the team uses, with any models and harnesses allowed.

The event received 72 submissions, combined manual human evaluations with about 100B tokens of model usage, and awarded a $10,000 Kill My SaaS prize. swyx says the post will publish the collected data, the difficulties of replacing mid-tier SaaS, and interviews with the winners.

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

    AIswyx 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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