As AI coding tools make bespoke software cheap to build, companies are starting to replace off-the-shelf SaaS tools with custom internal applications; one company saved over a million dollars a year by replacing more than ten bespoke internal tools built on Lovable.
Osika gives an example of an employee at a large company who used Lovable to replace more than ten internal bespoke tools, saving the company over a million dollars a year, and predicts more bespoke software will replace generic SaaS where requirements don't fit. ✦ AI generated
Anton Osika · All-In Podcast · 2026-07-15 · original ↗
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“Is software going to become 100% bespoke, even internal tools... will bespoke software start to replace Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, the Google suite, Microsoft Office?”
He took it into the back office internally and they've now replaced more than ten tools that they had bespoke applications, and in their case they're saving more than a million dollars per year... in some cases you have specific requirements where the tools that you've been using to date aren't suited for those requirements exactly, and in those cases I think, yes, you will have more bespoke solutions.
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37:59in the US, Nursa, and uh he came to our platform because he wanted to build out a new product lines, nurse study for educating more nurses, right? And and he built out all the admin tools for the program, the scheduling for the nurses getting getting their licenses and their certification management. and he was able to build that into a product and to take it to market because they have they
38:22have had all that access to nurses wanting their certification. What he also did was he took it into the back office internally and they've now replaced more than 10 tools that they had bespoke applications and um I think in terms of your question you can do that for multiple reasons. In their case they're saving more than a million dollars per year, >> right? >> So that's that's huge, right? But it's
38:47also the case that in some cases you have specific requirements where the tools that you've been using to date they aren't suited for those requirement exactly and in those cases I think yes >> you will have more more bespoke solutions. Yeah, >> but we're I also expect us to see that [snorts] lovable continues to interoperate with all of those tools. And uh I'm not sure if you tried this if
39:13if you ask for connecting to anything in the Google suite or now to anything in the Microsoft suite or or Slack lovable guides you through all the steps to do that in a way where you can get a a very good overview of exactly how the data flows which is of course very important that you don't give access to the wrong person to the wrong data and you can
39:32continue to use Salesforce um HubSpot and all the tools that you kind of like to use under the hood but with a bespoke interface on top of H how have these new frontier models they're in some ways competitive but in some ways you can use them to power lovable. So how do you think about the competition with them opensource a and the future of lovable because people have announced that lovable's
39:59dead every 6 months since you started and then every 6 months you go from 100 to 200 to 300 I think you're at 400 million in revenue something crazy. We we we reached 500 in May. >> Okay. Growth is a phenomenal. >> So you're dying again by another 100 million in annual revenue. >> Exactly. >> So but underneath the hood you're using some of these. >> Yeah. Let me explain. Yeah. So we've