We’ve talked about vibe coding and platforms.
But there’s another question worth asking:
If platforms aren’t the ones at risk… what is?
In my view, the real pressure is on single-point SaaS apps.
Think about simple, well-defined tools:
- A basic meeting room scheduler
- A lightweight calendar booking app
- A simple task or to-do manager
- Single-purpose internal tools
These apps solve one problem, in one place, with limited scope.
And that’s exactly where vibe coding shines.
With AI-assisted development, teams can now build:
- “Good enough” versions
- Highly tailored to their own workflows
- In days, not months
For many companies, that’s more than sufficient.
This isn’t a new idea.
Even before AI, we believed that the future would be difficult for standalone, single-point SaaS tools. Fragmentation, context switching, and disconnected data were already pushing companies toward platforms.
Vibe coding doesn’t change that direction. It accelerates it.
Platforms still matter because:
- Data needs to be shared
- Workflows need to connect
- Governance and security don’t disappear
But for isolated, single-purpose apps, the value equation is changing fast.
When building something “good enough” internally becomes easy, buying another standalone tool becomes harder to justify.
The question isn’t whether single-point apps will disappear overnight.
It’s whether they can still justify:
- Their cost
- Their complexity
- Their place in an already crowded stack
Vibe coding won’t replace platforms.
But it may quietly replace many single-point apps that platforms were already absorbing anyway.