How to kill your SaaS: what we learned replacing a $43K/yr tool with AI agents
After being quoted $43,000 annually for speaker management software, the AI Engineer team launched the 'Kill My SaaS' competition challenging builders to recreate the software using autonomous coding agents. Across 72 submissions averaging 91,000 lines of code, the hosts discovered stark divergences between automated AI evaluations and human operational taste, documented distinct multi-agent orchestration architectures, and weighed the real-world trade-offs of owning custom software versus renting off-the-shelf SaaS.
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- When enterprise software vendors quoted $43,000 annually for speaker management software, the AI Engineer team ran the Kill My SaaS competition, generating 72 entries averaging 91,000 lines of code. Read →
- Faced with a $43,000 annual SaaS quote for speaker management software, the AI Engineer team ran the "Kill My SaaS" contest, drawing 72 submissions averaging 91,000 lines of code. Read →