I Email All My Bots

Jordan and Brian unpack two MicroConf talks from Rob and Einar that frame the new reality of SaaS: faster building, faster competition, and more ways for products to get displaced. They then get practical about what that means for product strategy, pricing, annual billing, and where AI can actually help a small business stay durable. Timestamps: 00:00: Intro and Rob’s MicroConf talk 03:30: Should founders be more paranoid? 06:17: Einar’s moat talk and what makes software valuable 10:13: Where services and productized services fit 13:46: Josh Pigford’s AI service model 17:26: Giving Grokbot recurring jobs 20:21: Claude does the work, Grokbot runs the pipeline 23:45: Getting bot output ready for quick approvals 27:20: Keeping marketing going between launches 33:10: Getting out of your head by building something 36:22: Jared’s A Pointlet and Little Desk 39:16: Fewer features and simpler annual pricing 43:18: Quarterly payments and annual commitments 46:14: Brian’s current favorite: Claude Opus 5.5 49:14: Elon, xAI, and the AI race 52:14: Weekend plans YOU ARE THE PANEL – send us your thoughts 🗣️ 🎤 Send us an audio or video message 📧 Email us: [email protected] 📺 Leave a comment on YouTube 🦋 Reply on Bluesky Links mentioned in this episode: MicroConf Discretion Capital Knowatoa Muse: Meta's personal AI agent Introducing dots | OpenAI Instinct Grok Bot Introducing Claude Duet Appointlet Little Desk LiveKit opus 5.5 Claude Fable Elon Musk: Full Walter Isaacson Interview on AI, DOGE, the Debt & X | The Builders Billionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military Dogs