Success Story: Using ChatGPT To Migrate From Scraping To API

In my blog post entitled Using ChatGPT As A Data Analysis Assistant, I described a Stock Portfolio Prediction Tracker in which I’d used the Data > From Web feature in Excel to scrape the Current Market Price of various stocks from Yahoo! Finance website. While I was quite satisfied with scraping in the short term, I … Read more

Three Innovative Features From Hyperlocal Apps To Kill Location Friction

In Why Do Hyperlocal Apps Have So Much Location Friction?, I described many friction hotspots while entering and editing locations in hyperlocal apps like Ola, Rapido, Uber (Rideshare) Pizza Hut, Swiggy (Food delivery) Dunzo, Swiggy Genie (Runner) Many of these apps have excellent UX. I found it hard to believe that they’d have bungled just … Read more

Why Do Hyperlocal Apps Have So Much Location Friction?

The term “location” seemingly means different things in different hyperlocal apps: Locality / neighborhood e.g. Kalyaninagar Address e.g. B1-504 Silver Oak, Kalyaninagar, … Pickup / delivery point e.g. Flat # 504 on the fifth floor of B1 building in Silver Oak society in Kalyaninagar… (cf. footnote 1). I’ve been using Location Based Service apps for … Read more

Will ChatGPT Kill Systems Of Record?

Klarna recently announced that it is shutting down Salesforce, Workday and other SAAS applications that it has been using for years. All of the reports that I could lay my hands on only state that the Swede BNPL major will replace the SAAS giants’ software with an inhouse “AI system”. (see update at the end … Read more

Three Areas of Impact Of SaaS Repatriation

We did not reach a conclusion on the outlook for SaaS Repatriation at the end of  our previous blog post Will ChatGPT Kill SaaS?. But that doesn’t mean the fledgling trend won’t have any impact. (For the uninitiated, “SaaS Repatriation” is the new movement where companies stop using SAAS and develop the they functionality they … Read more

SaaS Repatriation – For & Against Faceoff

In Will ChatGPT Kill SaaS?, I coined the term SaaS Repatriation to describe the nascent practice of enterprises shutting down their SaaS products and developing AI systems inhouse using ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Replit. This is like the good old custom development of software, just built by these three popular AI coding copilots rather than … Read more

Will ChatGPT Kill SaaS?

The public discourse has expanded beyond whether ChatGPT will kill coders to the existential threat now posed by Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms to SAAS software. According to the proponents of this narrative: Companies will stop using SAAS and develop the required functionality with GenAI code development platforms. This is like the good old custom development … Read more