When ChatGPT launched everyone was predicting that developers would soon be obsolete. This was about the same time we launched Open SaaS , our free, open-source SaaS starter. Using the same logic, you'd have expected that AI would have killed boilerplate starters by now. But we noticed the opposite trend. Open SaaS launched and grew during the vibe coding boom Open SaaS just crossed 14,000 GitHub stars and its entire growth happened right in the middle of the vibe coding boom. This surprised us. So we decided to talk to 40 of our users to learn why they turned to Open SaaS. A renewed Energy to Build. After conducting 40+ user interviews, we noticed a trend: AI was unlocking all kinds of new builders. Career devs, DevOps engineers, PMs, an ex-woodworker, a marketer with zero coding experience , and more were getting inspired to start on their Ideas. These were people who always had a SaaS idea but never had the time or skills, or people who were getting inspired to build new apps on top of AI.…