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A LOT of people have been asking when my MicroConf talk on SaaS moats would go live. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Itโ€™s here, along with Einarโ€™s talk. Think of them as parts one and two of the same question: What makes a SaaS business defensible when AI makes software so easy to build?
Our first two talks from MicroConf Europe in Reykjavรญk are now out! @robwalling covers which SaaS moats still hold up in the age of AI. @einarvollset picks up from there: if anyone can copy your features in hours, where does defensibility come from? Links in ๐Ÿงต:
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Not really interested in SaaS but this talk by @robwalling from @MicroConf gives good insight abou the future of software and business around it youtu.be/KpILHX2D-AA?is=UGn7โ€ฆ
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Our first two talks from MicroConf Europe in Reykjavรญk are now out! @robwalling covers which SaaS moats still hold up in the age of AI. @einarvollset picks up from there: if anyone can copy your features in hours, where does defensibility come from? Links in ๐Ÿงต:
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Next, @einarvollset: stop selling the tool, sell the outcome. Move into labor budgets, and build a product with a learning loop that a newer frontier model canโ€™t just catch up to. He also gives five tests for a compounding AI worker. youtu.be/81j1sV32Wng
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Slides, Q&A, talk recordings and the Field Guide are all in one place: microconf.com/moats More Reykjavik videos to come over the next few weeks!
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๐Ÿ“š I'm taking pre-orders for my new book starting today: ๐˜๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ: ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ข๐˜š ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜ž๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ˆ๐˜ Sixteen years ago, I wrote ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต ๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ, ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ for developers with a day job and an itch to build something of their own. Since then, my books have sold more than 100,000 copies. ๐Ÿค– A lot has changed since 2010. AI lets you build software in an afternoon that once took months. But it doesnโ€™t stop you from building something nobody wants. It just lets you do it faster. ๐Ÿ’ธ Finding a problem people will pay to solve. Talking to customers when youโ€™d rather be coding. Getting strangers to give you money. Those parts still take work. And another weekend of prompting doesn't make them go away. So I wrote the book Iโ€™d hand a founder starting from zero today: โœ… Sixteen more years of launches, wins, and expensive mistakes โœ… More than 240 SaaS investments โœ… Everything Iโ€™d tell you before you disappear into a month-long building spree Derek Sivers wrote the foreword. His verdict: โ€œThis is now the ultimate current authority on the subject, updated for a very different world.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ฅ Available for pre-order today (and get several bonuses only if you pre-order). Grab your copy at the link below ๐Ÿ‘‡ Whether you buy a copy, give this a RT, or both, I appreciate your support ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป
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MicroConf Europe 2026 in Reykjavรญk, in 81 seconds. Talks hit YouTube next Monday! First up: @robwalling and @einarvollset on SaaS moats, and how to protect what you've built from AI and position your company to come out ahead. Then SEO, Claude skills for marketing, and more.
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Most founders treat motivation as a feeling: do I feel like doing this today? Clinical psychologist @drsherrywalling says it runs deeper. It's the drive that keeps you doing the reps regardless of how you feel. Here's how she breaks it down ๐Ÿงต
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The catch: your business needs different motivators as it grows. Ben Chestnut started as a craftsperson, but it would have been hard to stay one all the way to Mailchimp's $12B exit. When your daily work stops matching what drives you, that's where burnout takes seed.
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Her fixes: hire people with different archetypes, feed your core drive outside the business, do the inner work, celebrate small wins, and protect your sleep. If motivation has felt thin lately, the full talk is worth your time. โ–ถ๏ธ youtu.be/lw8ZrlqmKXQ
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Conversion Factory swag out in the wild spotted at @MicroConf last week $83,334
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Couldn't get to Reykjavik? You'll still get the talks. Every MicroConf Europe session was recorded, and they go up on YouTube free. Subscribe and they'll land in your feed as they publish. youtube.com/@microconf
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We're going back to Dubrovnik ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท MicroConf Europe 2027 is Oct 3-5 at the Dubrovnik Hotel Palace, right on the Adriatic. It's our favorite place to hold this event, and this will be our fourth time there. Early-bird tickets are open now: microconf.com/europe
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Once your SaaS starts making money, you're done... right? Nope! Even when things are going smoothly, you'll still have to make sure your SaaS doesn't stall at these 7 plateaus: youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1IO5mmโ€ฆ
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