Andy Lee

Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.

I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.

It did!

The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.

Today, I read a TechCrunch article about what investors are no longer looking for in SaaS, or rather, what to avoid if you don't want to lose their interest.

The red flags were:

• Too easy to replicate light AI wrappers, generic horizontal tools, basic CRM clones, generic productivity or project management tools.

• No real depth products where differentiation is mostly UI and automation, anything without proprietary data, surface-level analytics.

• Becoming obsolete workflow automation tools that coordinate human work (agents are taking over), integrations as a moat (MCP is making connectors a commodity), and "workflow stickiness" products trying to keep humans inside their software.

I m a full-stack developer building AI-powered SaaS and automation tools. Over the past few years, I ve been focused on turning ideas into scalable, production-ready products.

Lately, I ve been exploring AI integrations and faster validation strategies for indie builders.

Curious what are you currently building, and what s been your biggest challenge lately?

Would love to connect and exchange ideas!