™How to kill your SaaS: what we learned replacing a $43K/yr tool with AI agents
28-minute Latent Space episode on replacing a $43K/year speaker-management SaaS for the AI Engineer conferences with AI agents: the brief and judging rules, an AI judge, how entries were built, the results and winners, and the own-vs-rent trade-off.
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Cold open: is SaaS dead?
The trigger: a SaaS vendor quoted $43,000/year for speaker-management tooling
The brief and the rules of the build-off
An AI judge scores the entries
How the entries were built
How they verified the entries actually work
Results and winners: Conferencer ($10,000), Trackstage ($5,000), agent guardrails template ($1,000)
The trade-off: own vs rent
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