Custom Software

topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes

More or Less Startups For the Rest of Us Lenny's Podcast the Startup Ideas Podcast the a16z Podcast 20VC

7 statements about Custom Software, every show

Isenberg: Sell local businesses $5,000 custom internal software built in 48 hours
“Every med, spa, contractor, and clinic runs on spreadsheets, group text, because custom software costs like 80,000 dollars a year. So you sell them internal tools for 5000 dollars flat, and you build it in two days. The interview prompt is your sales call. You…”
Greg Isenberg Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 28:45 Claude Fable 5 is BACK
Walling: $5K-$10K upfront dev fees yield high LTV and near-zero churn
“And if someone paid five or 10,000 dollars up front to have custom software written, think of how sticky that is. They're not going to cancel in three months, six months. The lifetime value on this is going to be high. The churn is going to be very, very small…”
Rob Walling May 19, 2026 ▶ 11:12 Episode 833 | Success Patterns of Nobel Laureates, Developing Exp...
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: AI will trigger a 10x surge in custom software creation
“And so I could underwrite a 10 X growth of the amount of custom software that gets written and the fact that these core systems don't go away because there's just actually going to be way more software in the world that gets created.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 24:40 Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
Zhao: AI coding agents atop modular blocks enable custom vertical tools
“So now we're looking at, holy shit, we spent the last five, six years building all those Lego blocks for knowledge work. If we're just putting it, AI coding agent on top of it, you can have any kind of knowledge, customer software, customer agent for whatever …”
Ivan Zhao Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 1:00:06 Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: AI will enable tens of millions to build high-margin custom software
“I think there's a large explosion of tens of millions of more people building more specific, more personalized software to various use cases that you can charge a higher margin for because it's custom to like, I don't know, to use Aaron's example, like the, yo…”
Dave Morin Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 56:15 #76: In a World with 99.99% Accurate AI… (feat. Aaron Levie) · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eisenberg: Companies will build custom software with AI instead of buying SaaS
“I think you'll see a lot of companies build their own software. Or you have tools that create kind of unique business processes software for a lot of these companies. I don't know if it's tomorrow or in five years, but I think there'll be more of that.”
Michael Eisenberg Jun 19, 2024 ▶ 18:31 Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alex Wang: Falling software costs will shift enterprises to custom applications
“Especially that the software production costs and software creation costs are going down so dramatically, we're going to end up Moving towards a world where more and more of the software that enterprises consume are going to be customized and custom built and …”
Alex Wang Jun 12, 2024 ▶ 30:35 Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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