Nicolas Lecocq

@BrunoPessoa22 @karpathy If Karpathy is at 80% AI-written, the rest of us are already at 95% and just pretending we did the work. The shift happened fast.

🎙️ @karpathy: "I don't think I've typed a line of code since December." In Dec, his workflow flipped: from writing 80% of code himself → AI writing 80%. That shift happened in 1 month. For a founding engineer of OpenAI. Are you still typing your own code? 👇

@Girirajjhawar07 Strategy and taste can't be automated. AI can generate words but someone has to know which words matter. That judgment is what you're actually paying for.

Don't hire writers. Wait... Hire writers who can create a strategy and have good problem-solving skills. You can use AI, but you need someone to monitor the output and provide sufficient context to LLMs. AI + Human creativity + Personalization = Perfect Content

@ismluxe Payment failures are silent killers. You can optimize every funnel step but if the card declines and you don't recover it, nothing else matters. Most SaaS ignores this.

the real reason your SaaS isn't growing the way it should? payments. not your landing page. not your onboarding. not your pricing tier. your payment infrastructure is silently bleeding you out 👀 here's what nobody talks about enough: → banks take an "if in doubt, decline" approach on recurring charges — for every $1 in actual fraud, $25 of real payments get falsely blocked → currency conversion issues kill international approval rates before users even notice → expired cards cause involuntary churn — users who WANT to pay, can't → compliance rules (PCI, SCA, PSD2...) add friction that costs you conversions → failed charges create a manual reconciliation nightmare at scale you shipped a product. you're supposed to be building, not chasing failed transactions through stripe dashboards at 3am 😅 i've been building a solution for this. for founders who are done losing revenue to infrastructure problems they shouldn't have to think about. announcement soon 🚀 what payment issue has cost you the most rn? let's talk 👇 #buildinpublic #saas #founders #indiehackers #developers

@opendraftco Owning the code is underrated. Most founders rent everything and wonder why their margins are trash. Build once, own forever beats subscribe forever.

Founder friend just escaped endless SaaS fees. Pasted his site URL, got a custom CRM app. It's March 2026, he owns it. No per-seat pricing. You gotta see what's on opendraft.co. 585+ apps with source code. #OwnYourTech

@Everia_io Per-seat pricing was always a tax on growth. The only reason it lasted this long is because VCs loved the predictable expansion revenue. Customers hate it and now they have options.

2026 will be the year “unlimited users, flat pricing” becomes table stakes. Per-seat pricing is the new per-inbox; founders will quietly migrate away once they realize growth shouldn’t cost exponentially more. Who’s still paying per head? #SaaS #Pricing #Startup #SaaSTrends

@VibeCodingNow Document the mistakes most people hide. That's what makes build in public worth following. Everyone shows the wins, but the messy middle is where people actually learn.

I'm starting to build in public. 🚀 Every lesson, mistake, and win. I'll be documenting it all on X. No filter. Just the raw journey of building a SaaS from scratch. Quick question for you: what's the #1 thing you'd want me to document? → The technical side (stack, architecture, code) → The business side (marketing, revenue, customers) → Both equally Drop your answer in the comments — it'll shape what I share. 👇 #BuildInPublic #SaaS #IndieHacker #Founder #StartupJourney #Entrepreneurship

@Naeem9799 The one-to-many content tools are everywhere now. The hard part isn't generating the posts, it's making them not sound like everyone else's AI slop. Good luck.

Building something exciting 👀 RepurPro, a tool that turns 1 idea into: • X threads • LinkedIn posts • Reddit posts • Blogs Just paste → generate → post. Still building… but this might save creators hours every week. Would you use this? #buildinpublic

@AnishKapoo84778 $280 to $44 is exactly the kind of drop that makes you question every SaaS subscription. Most people are bleeding money on marked-up AI tokens they could get direct for 10% of the cost.

Amateurs add tools. Pros cut waste. - Audit billing: kill dead flows - Stop per task fees: use BYOK - Pay only for runs I cut $280 to $44 in one weekend. Do the audit. #Automation

@mahendra_Dew Single-use vibe-coded tools are going to wreck SaaS retention. Why pay $49/month when you can generate exactly what you need in 20 minutes and throw it away?

We're moving into a world where people "vibe code" tools for a single purpose, use them once, and move on.... That flips traditional saas logic retention, distribution, and pricing don't matter as much anymore because the cost and effort to build are almost nothing.

@alanefuller @nickgraynews @photomatt The 'no em-dashes' detail is how you know this is real. AI loves those things. It's either trained into the prompt or someone's editing with actual taste.

@nickgraynews @photomatt Doesn't work that way any more, speak into the mike "add a new article about how easy it is to update a static site with AI, write it in my voice, include important references and examples, oh and no em-dashes, thanks"

I feel like "This is the year of static sites!" is the new "This is the year of Linux desktop!"

@m13v_ @malakhovdm @agrossule @brian_armstrong Building in public is the best marketing because it filters out the wrong people. If someone follows your messy progress and still wants to buy, they're already sold. No pitch needed.

@malakhovdm @agrossule @brian_armstrong the zero cold outreach part is the dream. building in public basically pre-qualifies your users. by the time you launch they already know the problem, the approach, and why they should care

Operating in stealth mode is almost always a mistake. Talk publicly about what you're building. You’ll build momentum, get real feedback, and someone will reach out with the other half of your idea you didn’t realize you were missing.

@varunv_malhotra Horizontal SaaS is cooked. When Claude can log into your app and do the work, the UI becomes irrelevant. Data moats are all that matter now, and most SaaS companies don't have one.

I’ve mentioned for SaaS the risk is the frontier models extracting value on top of the horizontal or mission critical software. It’s not vibe coding competitors. For certain software businesses this can lead to seat compression or just less pricing power. The things Anthropic is doing on 2026 is the tip of the iceberg so as investors we need to monitor not just the new features but usage in the workplace.

@Tapan_Chitransh The middle ground disappeared because VCs wanted unicorn growth. Can't get there serving small businesses at $29/month, so they either starve you on the free tier or squeeze you on enterprise.

SaaS pricing has become: Free tier (unusable), Pro ($29/month for 3 features), Enterprise ('contact sales' = $50K minimum). There's no middle ground for small businesses anymore, just venture subsidized bait and corporate gouging.

@corruptedsan LinkedIn restricting you for DMs while you build a cold outreach tool is almost too perfect. The platform desperately wants to stop automation but it's the only way to scale.

my linkedin just got restricted for sending too many dms so i'm posting here instead we built an AI cold email tool that finds leads automatically no csv no linkedin no manual work ironic that i'm promoting a cold outreach tool 😭?? aicoldemailingtool.com try it for free

@Sachinbuild1 API costs killing a working tool is the most 2026 story possible. You built something people wanted and the pricing model made it impossible. BYOK would have saved it.

The journey so far: → 2 months SEO content writing → 4 months AI automation → Built an Instagram leads tool — it worked really well → API costs killed it → Pivoted to AI UGC ads, Google Gems, Custom GPTs → Now: LinkedIn carousels (1 month in)

I've spent a year learning in-demand skills. Still not earning a rupee from them. Here's what I've built — and what I'm figuring out 🧵. Show more..

@Mayhem4Markets BYOK is the only way to run AI at scale without burning cash. SaaS companies marking up API costs 10x can't survive when users figure out they can plug their own keys in for pennies.

All of this is, by the way, using the BYOK mode, meaning it's interfacing with local models rather than cloud-hosted AI APIs. This means it's a fully closed loop. Faster, more secure, private and *unlimited* usage. No random quality rugpulls. Just the models I want to utilize.

Coding with LLMs is something we hear a lot about. But what about QA? I am using @FactoryAI Droid's mission mode to run a comprehensive test suite on this multi-agent deep research stack. It's running several checks on every feature, documenting and fixing any problems found.

@SaaSpocalypse @namcios Per-seat pricing made sense when humans logged in and clicked things. AI agents don't need seats. The whole model collapses once you realize one agent can replace ten dashboard licenses.

@namcios The numbers don't lie. Since Jan 1: $MNDY down 76% from 52-week high $NOW down 47% $CRM down 34% Seat-based pricing is getting repriced in real time. When an AI agent can do what 5 SaaS dashboards did, the per-seat model is just overhead.

A Anthropic meteu 9 features em uma semana e basicamente criou um funcionário digital. Controla seu computador. Abre apps. Preenche planilhas. E você manda comando pelo celular. Desde o lançamento do Cowork em janeiro, $285 bilhões de dólares em valor de mercado de SaaS foram eliminados. Extinção de modelo de negócio em tempo real.

@anxeditz The people winning with AI already had a voice. Everyone else just figured out how to produce garbage faster. It's not the tool, it's that most people have nothing interesting to say.

Truthbomb ahead- Using AI won’t grow your personal brand if you don’t have a point of view. Most people generate content faster, and blend in faster. Same structures. Same tones. Same recycled ideas. AI amplifies what’s already there. If that’s generic, you just scaled generic.

By Q4 2026, half the vibe-coded 'I built this in 20 minutes' projects will either die or get acquired for parts. The barrier isn't starting anymore. It's maintaining through year two when the novelty wears off. Who's still shipping in 2027?

73% of SaaS tools raised prices in 2025. Slack up 20%, Salesforce hit $500 per seat. Founders act surprised when customers churn. Your cost went up, sure. But so did your users alternatives. When does pricing become the reason they leave?