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Solo Scale: The New Business Model AI Just Made Possible
There’s a conversation happening about what AI means for software creation. Elena Verna at Lovable calls it Mom-and-Pop SaaS. The thesis is smart: as the cost of building software collapses, domain experts — not just developers — become builders. She’s right. And it’s only half the story.
The bigger shift isn’t happening in software products. It’s happening in services.
Agentic AI and vibe coding aren’t just lowering the cost of building apps. They’re dismantling the core constraint of every services business ever built: the ratio of expert time to revenue. That constraint: one expert, one…
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