✨ I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded now, so about $25,000/mo savings:
- Weather API -> My own vibe coded weather service using Norway's meteorology API
- Image resizing API -> My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
- Google Vision NSFW detection -> My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)
- Cloudflare Streaming -> My own $0/mo Nginx VPS video streaming (saves ~$250/mo)
- API Flash -> My own $0/mo screenshot service (for social images) (saves ~$250/mo)
- New Relic + IPHub -> My own $0/mo error monitoring, DDOS blocking and fleet management service (called error2telegram) (saves ~$250/mo)
- Human moderators -> My own moderation on all my sites with @xAI (saves ~$10,000/mo)
- IFTTT -> Telegram bot (saves ~$100/mo)
- Photopea as editor inside Photo AI -> Vibe coded my own photo editor (saves ~$100/mo)
- Mapbox -> Vibecoded my own free replacement with OpenFreeMaps (saves ~$500/mo)
- Uptimerobot -> My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo)
- Ghost blog -> My own $0/mo blog platform
- Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)
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streaming — Sending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.
Why it matters
Concrete examples and specific stacks (Sharp+Redis, NudeNET, self-hosted Nginx streamingSending a model's response token by token as it is generated, so the reader sees text immediately instead of waiting for the whole answer.Full definition →, Playwright-based scraping) showing which categories of SaaS are now cheap enough to replace with AI-assisted custom builds, with a cost figure attached to each.
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