SaaS
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AI Is On Fire. And So Every Single B2B Traffic Channel Is Up YoY for SaaStr AI. Even SEO is Up +42%
SaaStr’s AI-focused vertical drove a 96% year-over-year jump in active users and a 114% surge in new users across its main and AI-dedicated sites during th…
18 May, 07:32 pm IST - SAASSAAS · 2 min
The Investments Where I’m Going to Lose All My Money
Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr Fund has quietly marked down a cluster of 2021-era SaaS bets to zero, he disclosed in a 30 May post on saastr.com, acknowledging that…
18 May, 05:32 pm IST - SAASSAAS · 1 min
Introducing Zoho Webinar's AI Recording Features
Zoho rolled out AI-powered recording tools for Zoho Webinar on May 18, 2026, adding Summary, Transcript, Smart Chapters and Highlights to every session at…
18 May, 05:32 pm IST - SAAS · AI SALES SHIFTSAAS · AI SALES SHIFT · 2 min
AI agents hit 120% of human sales—Replit, Salesforce at SaaStr AI 2026
SaaStr AI Annual 2026: product expertise, not schmoozing, drives B2B sales in the agentic era.
18 May, 02:30 am IST - SAASSAAS · 2 min
Schmoozing Is Dead, Agents Are Hitting 120% of Humans, and Growth Is the Only Thing That Matters: 10 Things From the Closing Q&A at SaaStr AI Annual 2026
Replit has promoted Kody to Head of Sales Engineering, eliminating traditional relationship-based selling and mandating that every rep demonstrate live cod…
18 May, 12:24 am IST - SAASSAAS · 2 min
When Growth Slows, Is It Sales’ Fault or the Product’s Fault? The Answer Has Changed.
SaaS operators are rethinking who to blame when growth stalls, shifting the onus from sales leadership to product shortcomings, according to saastr.com.
17 May, 10:25 pm IST - GLOBAL AI INFRA · COST BENCHMARKGLOBAL AI INFRA · COST BENCHMARK · 3 min
Apple M5 MacBook Pro: ₹120-140 L per million tokens vs OpenRouter’s ₹30-40 L
Independent cost analysis shows Apple Silicon local inference 3-10× pricier than OpenRouter cloud for Gemma 4 31B workloads.
17 May, 08:31 pm IST - SAASSAAS · 2 min
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My CEO that Marketing is Important?
B2B SaaS founders are hitting $5-20 million ARR without a senior marketing leader, a pattern SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin flagged in a 2024 post on saastr.com.
17 May, 08:25 pm IST - LOGISTICS TECH · SAASLOGISTICS TECH · SAAS · 3 min
Shadowfax bets ₹120 Cr on SaaS pivot to cut last-mile costs 15%
Logistics player shifts from asset-heavy delivery to tech platform, targets ₹500 Cr revenue from SaaS by FY27.
17 May, 11:28 am IST - DEVTOOLS · HTMLDEVTOOLS · HTML · 3 min
HTML has 5 list types—most devs use only 2, says blog
Frank M Taylor’s post breaks down ordered, unordered, description, menu, and control lists, urging semantic precision over default `<ul>` habits.
17 May, 12:19 am IST - FRONTEND TOOLSFRONTEND TOOLS · 3 min
Julia Evans drops Tailwind CSS after 8 years—vanilla CSS wins for maintainability
The 'Wizard Zines' creator migrates personal sites to semantic HTML and structured CSS, ditching Tailwind’s utility-first approach for better control.
16 May, 10:19 pm IST - OPEN-SOURCE HARDWAREOPEN-SOURCE HARDWARE · 3 min
FPGA-based scientific calculator runs on custom 4-bit CPU, open-sourced on GitHub
A developer’s GitHub project builds a scientific calculator from Verilog gates, offering a web emulator and microcode debugger for hardware education.
16 May, 02:18 pm IST - DEVTOOLS · OPEN SOURCEDEVTOOLS · OPEN SOURCE · 2 min
GitHub’s 181-star whichllm tool ranks local LLMs by real benchmarks, not parameters
A single-command Python tool helps users pick the best-performing local LLM for their hardware, using recency-aware benchmarks instead of parameter count.
15 May, 05:56 pm IST - GLOBAL HARDWARE · OPEN SOURCEGLOBAL HARDWARE · OPEN SOURCE · 2 min
RISC-V router crowdfunding hits ₹20.6 L in first 30-day cycle
Start9-hosted campaign for open-source networking hardware crosses 10% of ₹2.06 Cr softcap with 90 backers.
15 May, 11:51 am IST - GLOBAL SAAS · WEB CRAWLERSGLOBAL SAAS · WEB CRAWLERS · 3 min
Amazonbot to enforce robots.txt from June 15—sites get direct control
Amazon’s crawler will stop manual overrides, default to robots.txt rules; publishers gain granular access control without Amazon support tickets.
15 May, 05:49 am IST - GLOBAL-DEVTOOLS · AI IN FINANCEGLOBAL-DEVTOOLS · AI IN FINANCE · 2 min
Kronos AI model hits 24.8k GitHub stars in days—open-source finance LLM
GitHub’s fastest-growing finance AI model offers live demo, fine-tuning tools, and Hugging Face integration—all open-source.
15 May, 03:48 am IST - GLOBAL SAAS · OPEN-SOURCE AI TOOLSGLOBAL SAAS · OPEN-SOURCE AI TOOLS · 2 min
Roboflow’s open-source vision library hits 38.9K GitHub stars; Indian devs among top contributors
Python-based supervision toolkit simplifies AI workflows, with 4.8K+ commits and growing adoption by Indian startups and enterprises.
15 May, 03:48 am IST - GLOBAL DEVTOOLS · RUST REWRITEGLOBAL DEVTOOLS · RUST REWRITE · 3 min
Bun merges Rust rewrite: 20-30% less memory, 15-25% faster startup
Bun’s open-source JavaScript runtime switches from Zig to Rust, cutting memory use by 20-30% and improving startup times by 15-25% while keeping full Node.js compatibility.
15 May, 01:48 am IST - AUTOTECH · PRIVACYAUTOTECH · PRIVACY · 3 min
Toyota RAV4 owner removes ₹0 DCM & GPS to block telemetry leaks
Security researcher physically disables Data Communication Module and GPS in 2024 RAV4 Hybrid to prevent data brokers and insurers from accessing driving telemetry—India’s connected car market faces similar risks.
15 May, 12:41 am IST - X · PRODUCT UPDATEX · PRODUCT UPDATE · 2 min
X launches History tab to unify bookmarks, likes, videos—1.5B MAU play
New feature consolidates user activity into one tab, aiming to boost engagement amid advertiser exodus.
14 May, 06:40 pm IST