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@cote@cote.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

SaaS businesses not looking good now:

"Traditional estimates for this scope of work: Method Estimate COCOMO (lines-based) ~20,000 hours Feature decomposition ~9,000-12,000 hours Industry benchmark 5-6 years solo, 12-15 months with 5 junior engineers Traditional cost $750,000 – $1,500,000

What I spent: $1,800. That’s a 99.8% cost reduction. It’s also not a fair comparison—traditional development wouldn’t produce identical output. But the delta is large enough that precision doesn’t matter."

🔗 On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month

Jason A. Hoffman

On Running a Startup of Claude Code Agents: What You Get For a Billion Tokens a Month

Two days ago I wrote about building an app in 19 days with Claude Code. That post told part of the story. Here’s the rest. What Actually Shipped Between December 21st, 2025 and January 17th, …
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Greg Lloyd
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@Roundtrip@federate.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cote 🧵Check the work

Thanks! It’s a sample size of one, but Hoffman released his Christmas break #ClaudeCode product—Judoka.ai—to the Apple App for free evaluation, including featured Dojos and a sandbox for play. He showed his work and $1.8k Claude cost vs traditional $750k+ estimate.

But, per a StackOverflow survey from another very helpful article you posted, results may be disappointing. How much of recent Claude improvement filters through to the product?

https://federate.social/@Roundtrip/115945429619061171

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