I've been on a SaaS startup building and launching spree this year since I lost half my web development contracts to AI. I think many developers have been in the same boat.
Instead of looking for more development work (which is in real flux at the moment) I decided to instead launch my own SaaSes.. SaaSs?
The first thing I noticed as many have, is AI can scaffold a UI very quickly - in 30 minutes I had a SaaS website - yay! It was quite bland but well designed - ok - nothing fancy. Then came iterating on that website, which took days - then weeks to get it right. AI seems to fix something and break something else at the same time - this went on forever.
Now the bigger development effort for a SaaS is the backend - the dashboard and the multi-tenancy, the stripe plans/payments integrations, the email sending, authentication, team management, ACL, privacy, security... the list get's long pretty quick - but it is finite if you want it to be.
So if you spent one week on the website, prepare to spend a month on the dashboard and 6 months on the backend.
