AI Lets Solo Founders Build and Sell Software Without Engineers

The economics of software creation have inverted. LLMs can handle the technical build that previously required expensive developers, collapsing the time and capital to launch a viable product from months to weeks. This democratizes SaaS founding but floods the market with feature-thin competitors, forcing differentiation upstream into distribution, positioning, and customer intimacy rather than technical novelty. The constraint shifts from "can I build this?" to "can I sell this?" Winners will be operators with existing audiences or domain expertise, not just talented coders.