Tell HN: SaaS Is the New SEO
achempion Sunday, March 16, 2025With advent of modern web and it's centralization, many niche platforms died.
Those that are still alive are almost undiscoverable due to google being gamed to death by SEO companies.
Reddit, once source of authentic content, is bots talking to bots and people trying to sell and promote. Most of youtube videos are part of someone's sales funnel.
With a new wave of AI, it's even harder to discover authentic content. ProductHunt, IndieHacker and Show HN communities are being gamed with cheap to produce SaaS prototypes following MVP concept. Almost all of them are getting very little to no traction.
Digital products of high craftsmanship with attention to detail are aliens in modern web.
As a result, traditinal startup advice becoming irrelevant as people develop SaaS blindness and don't want to waste their time giving feedback in exchange for nothing.
Please, prove me wrong, but major AI companies are operating at a loss, creating (OpenAI, Anthropic) and reselling (Cursor, Lovable) tokens at a loss on each stage, with a hope to recoupe it with IPO from pension funds and other holders of someone else's money.
Are there any products worth attention created on platforms like Lovable, Bolt? Any code worth reading generated by Cursor, Windsurf?