问HN：SaaS的未来
我们已经在SaaS领域奋斗了几年——构建、发布和发展小型产品——我不禁感到，行业格局正在以一种令人担忧的方式发生变化。
价格普遍上涨。曾经对独立创始人或早期团队来说负担得起的工具，如今却变得价格高昂，适用于企业预算。“免费增值”模式正在让位于激进的试用、基于使用的定价以及核心功能的付费墙。似乎不仅客户的进入门槛在提高，构建者的门槛也在增加。
与此同时，竞争比以往任何时候都更加激烈。人工智能加速了开发，但也在一夜之间淹没了市场。数以百计的克隆产品、微小的修改和“先发布后迭代”的产品涌入同一细分市场。发现机制已经崩溃，差异化变得比以往任何时候都更困难。
或许最糟糕的是，信任正在流失。用户厌倦了虚假宣传、意外的功能弃用和数据锁定。人们感到，太多的SaaS企业更关心的是不惜一切代价的增长，而非产品质量、用户体验和长期价值。
我们是否正朝着SaaS寒冬飞速前进？还是这仅仅是一个变化生态系统中的糟糕时期？
我很想知道你们的感受——特别是其他独立创始人和自筹资金的团队。你们是否充满希望，还是在质疑自己在SaaS中的角色？
你们是否希望将其定制为特定受众——例如初创公司创始人、开发者或投资者？
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We've been in the SaaS game for a few years now—building, shipping, and growing small products—and I just can't help but feel that the landscape is changing in a troubling way.<p>Prices are going up across the board. Tools that were once affordable for indie founders or early-stage teams are suddenly priced for enterprise budgets. The "freemium" model is giving way to aggressive trials, usage-based pricing, and paywalls around core features. It's as if the barrier to entry is increasing not only for customers, but also for builders.<p>Meanwhile, competition is fiercer than ever. AI is speeding up development, but it's also flooding markets overnight. Hundreds of clones, minor modifications, and "launch-first-iterate-later" products overwhelm the same niches. Discovery has been broken. Differentiation is more difficult than it's ever been.<p>And perhaps worst of all, trust is being lost. Users are tired of bait-and-switch, surprise deprecations, and data lock-ins. There's a feeling that too many SaaS businesses are more concerned with growth-at-all-costs than product quality, user experience, and long-term value.<p>Are we hurtling towards a SaaS winter? Or is this merely a bad patch in a changing ecosystem?<p>I'd love to know how you're feeling—particularly other indie founders and bootstrapped teams. Are you hopeful, or are you questioning your role in SaaS entirely?<p>Would you like to customize it for a particular audience—such as startup founders, developers, or investors<p>We've been in the SaaS game for a few years now—building, shipping, and growing small products—and I just can't help but feel that the landscape is changing in a troubling way.<p>Prices are going up across the board. Tools that were once affordable for indie founders or early-stage teams are suddenly priced for enterprise budgets. The "freemium" model is giving way to aggressive trials, usage-based pricing, and paywalls around core features. It's as if the barrier to entry is increasing not only for customers, but also for builders.<p>Meanwhile, competition is fiercer than ever. AI is speeding up development, but it's also flooding markets overnight. Hundreds of clones, minor modifications, and "launch-first-iterate-later" products overwhelm the same niches. Discovery has been broken. Differentiation is more difficult than it's ever been.<p>And perhaps worst of all, trust is being lost. Users are tired of bait-and-switch, surprise deprecations, and data lock-ins. There's a feeling that too many SaaS businesses are more concerned with growth-at-all-costs than product quality, user experience, and long-term value.<p>Are we hurtling towards a SaaS winter? Or is this merely a bad patch in a changing ecosystem?<p>I'd love to know how you're feeling—particularly other indie founders and bootstrapped teams. Are you hopeful, or are you questioning your role in SaaS entirely?<p>Would you like to customize it for a particular audience—such as startup founders, developers, or investors