Lakshmi Narasimhan
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#Saas

The Real SaaS Moat AI Can't Replicate

AI can clone your features in an afternoon. What it can’t clone is the thing most founders haven’t bothered to build. Here’s where the actual defensibility lives in 2026.

You’re Making Your SaaS Harder Than It Needs to Be

A few weeks ago, I spent an entire evening chasing a bug in a React component that refused to re-render. I tried useEffect. Then useMemo. Then stared at the dependency array like it had personally wronged me. Eventually, I fixed it — by restarting the dev server. That’s when it hit me: React wasn’t made for people like me. React was built for teams — with dedicated frontend engineers, design systems, review processes, and time to care about component hierarchies. I’m just trying to build a SaaS. Alone.