I see a lot of people talking about “AI will build your SaaS in X clicks” or "Coders are cooked because of X new model is out".
This is BS, no product is 100% AI made.
If you try to let AI do everything, you’ll end up with a broken, slow, soulless product nobody wants.
So here’s the real way I build SaaS today. This is not theory. This is what I use every day.
First, your stack matters more than you think.
Use boring stuff.
This is my go-to boring stack that always works:
- Next.js
- Tailwind
- Postgres
- ShadCN
- Drizzle
- Better Auth
- TypeScript
Why?
Because AI understands it well. You are not fighting your tools.
If you pick some weird stack, your AI will hallucinate half your app.
Second, stop trying to generate your UI with AI.
This is where most people mess up.
AI UI looks like trash. Always.
No taste, no spacing, no feeling.
You need to do this part yourself. This is literally your product.
If your UI sucks, your SaaS is dead.
Third, build onboarding first.
Not features. Not dashboard. Not pricing.
Onboarding.
If users don’t get value in the first few minutes, they are gone forever.
Make it stupid simple. No friction. No thinking required.
Fourth, never let your AI go rogue.
Always use plan mode.
Think of AI as a junior dev, not a cofounder.
It will:
- misunderstand things
- break stuff
- add random logic you did not ask for
You are the captain. Always.
If you are not reviewing the code, you are building on quicksand.
Fifth, build less than you want.
If you think you need 10 features, you actually need 3 or 4.
- More features = more bugs
- More bugs = worse UX
- Worse UX = no users
Simple wins.
Now the part nobody wants to hear.
Talk to your users.
Not once. Not sometimes. All the time.
Most devs hide behind code and AI because it feels productive.
It’s not.
You need to:
- answer questions
- watch how people use your product
- understand where they struggle
- fix it fast
This is the real feedback loop.
This is exactly why I built Cossistant.
It’s basically a component you drop into your app.
It lets you:
- talk to users directly inside your product
- let AI help answer when you are not there
- learn from conversations so it gets better over time
So instead of guessing what to build, you just listen and ship.
That’s it.
Here is the loop that actually works:
- Talk to users
- Understand the problem
- Use AI to implement fast
- Ship
- Repeat
Never break this loop.
Ever.
Last thing.
Make your product FEEL human. Speed matters. Details matter. Small things matter. People can feel when something is rushed or generic. AI can help you move fast, but taste, care, and attention is still your job.
Most people won’t do this.
They will:
- overbuild
- trust AI too much
- ignore users
If you avoid that, you already have an edge.
Now go build something real, some with AI and some with your human brain, we need you!
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