Never heard of Neeto. It's a no-brainer (imo).

I perceive and classify your business model as a product optimization race-to-the-bottom model, if it makes sense. Have you considered or are currently working in the Field Service Management (NeetoService) space? Perhaps an ERP (NeetoERP)? Honestly curious because they're both sorely needed.

Thanks again for your AMA-ability. ;)

Never imagined Scale.ai CEO was D2Lang creator nor that he joined his room-mate at OpenAI (giggle).

Thanks for sharing

Scale AI is a different Alex. Their first names are spelled slightly different. Alexandr vs Alexander

First, congrats on your accomplishment(s) and leveraging your AI+Python+WebDev talents.

Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean? What's stopping anyone with a little of domain knowledge and a $200+ Claude to clone your app and build yet another gap-filling, slightly improved content-syndication version and go-to-market? Is it worth taking it to the market when anyone can perpetuate the cycle?

I'm genuinely interested in knowing your thoughts.

My personal opinion is that it will be extremely difficult in the future to monetize plain software. Either you need a very strong edge and unique angle for your distribution or you have to build a product that cannot be reproduced by agents that can build software.

This will be 2 types of products.

1. A product which requires tech that is not inside the training data distribution of the models underlying coding agents. This is usually then very cutting edge.

2. A product that uses data/insights to generate value for a customer to which a coding agent has no access.

These are the only abstract moats I can think of, the rest will be a race to the bottom

A third and very valid one is: You are in a nice he market, be very well connected and buried into customers process and your customer care more about you as a person/consultant/delivery than going though the hassle of replacing you.

I concur and share your thoughts - "it's a race to the bottom" - also as you said and I recently shared with a close friend:

- "In the AI Age, Data is your only Moat!"

Thanks for sharing such valuable insights JanSchu! B-)

> Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean?

It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.

[archive.today link](http://archive.today/Qc0aD)

You beat me to it! I envisioned creating some aliases but you exceeded it by building a TUI. Good job Claude! LOL ;)

* FreeSwitch Messaging API - https://signalwire.com/pricing/messaging

Can/will do the trick for fractions of a penny... B)

Check their UseCases... * https://signalwire.com/products/cloud-messaging#message-use-...

Also, if you're a real PBX nerd, check Asterisk.org which pre-dates and may have sparked if/not powered early-Twilio.

Here's another:

''Textbelt is a no-nonsense SMS API built for developers who just want to send SMS. Thousands of customers prefer Textbelt over other SMS providers for our ease of setup, simple, predictable pricing packages, and personal support. ''

https://textbelt.com/

The self-hosted version of this project seems to rely on email-to-sms gateways, which many carriers have started to shut down [1]. Do you know if it's still reliable? It looks like the last commit was 2+ years ago.

[1] https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/

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I bet it's because of Granola, right? I'm a Granola subscriber and would love to try yours too.

Favorite! Both aesthetics and content!

Unbelievable no one have done it already! Good job!

Feature Request: PUT/POST /cat ;) -- For adding our own kitties to your service.