Why are platform companies uniquely positioned to survive the potential SaaS apocalypse?
Replied byGuillermo Rauch
Founder & CEO at Vercel
Niche: SaaS
Revenue: Approx. 42 Million USD/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
Instead of procuring twenty different bespoke software tools, enterprises are building their own internal agents and tools on top of developer platforms. The rigid, off-the-shelf software is being replaced by custom agentic workflows built on infrastructure like ours, making developer platforms highly defensible compared to single-point SaaS products.
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