A man paying twenty thousand dollars a year for software got tired of waiting on the support line — so he rebuilt the thing himself with AI. McKinsey says about a third of companies did some version of that this year. Meanwhile a security firm found thousands of these homemade apps sitting open on the internet, including a cabinet supplier's conversations with its own customers. Both are true. Building got cheap. Owning didn't. And a shop your size has been building its own software for years — you just call it a spreadsheet.
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🔗 Show Notes & Sources
Story 1 — A third skipped the software bill
Story 2 — The homemade app on the open internet
Story 3 — The builder in the spreadsheet
Spotlight — Lovable vs. Google AppSheet
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