I built a basic copy with about an hour with my own "platform for ai agents" that I built out over the last week: https://github.com/jwbron/egg/pull/504, and refined it here: https://github.com/jwbron/egg/pull/517 (though right after I merged this I blew through my weekly token quota for my second claude max 20x account so I haven't been able to test it out yet).
I think your point is valid and I've been having the same thoughts. My tooling is still in the experimental phase, but I can move so quickly that I'm having trouble grasping how products like this will survive. If I can build this out in a week and copy an idea like this one (which is a great one, mind you) in an hour, what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?
>what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?
Same thing it’s always been. Convenience. Including maintenance costs. AI tools have lowered the bar significantly on some things, so SaaS offerings will need to be better, but I don’t want to reinvent every wheel. I want to build the thing I want to build, not the things to build that.
Just like I go to restaurants instead of making every meal myself.
Right, but paying for food at a restaurant doesn't get me any closer to owning a restaurant. If promises are delivered on for these agentic coding platforms (which I do believe in), it seems the most reasonable path forward is to use those platforms to build your own platform.
You cannot test your software without Claude Code?
The software collects the network traffic of distributed Claude code instances.