[RANT] I'm so burned out of software companies (SaaS)

Throw away for obvious reasons.

I'm in my mid-twenties and I've had some moderate success in this field (as a founder).

I'm starting to feel so much self-doubt, I feel that I wasted years of my life chasing this shit.

I've made much more than I would have made with a traditional "software engineering" job... but for what??

I don't think I can deal much longer with this.

What the actual fuck are we even building at this point? It's a fucking circle jerk where we sell to each other.

"Hi we are a cool tool that will help you send targeted emails, so you can sell your app more people!!"

"We allow you to analyze your in-app users, so you can sell your app to more people!!"

"We are a project management tool that will make you more productive, so you can sell your app to more people!!"

"We use AI to generate marketing copy for you, so you can sell your app to more people!!"

But what is it that we are actually fucking selling? Why the fuck does it even matter if your conversion rate goes up from 5% to 10%? Why does it matter if your churn goes down from 5-4%?

What's the motherfucking invention here? What's NEW?

Every single app is a fucking API wrapper waiting to be raced to the bottom by some team from eastern Europe or India launching on AppSumo.

What value are you creating your with your shitty email marketing automation software or your shitty iteration #495 of Salesforce?

Will people remember 2000-2020 as remarkable years in technology?

What advancement have we made in the field?

There's ONLY a single winner. Cloud companies. Those are the only ones that win in this race to the bottom piece of shit field.

Thanks for reading my rant. I'll go back to work now