r/SaaS Founder Post on 'Shiny Object Syndrome' Draws 118 Upvotes for Arguing Idea-Hopping Predates AI
r/SaaS (118 upvotes / 33 comments)·low signal
A software engineer posted to r/SaaS (118 upvotes, 33 comments) that they spent years jumping between SaaS ideas — explicitly noting this happened before the AI era — and never got a single user until they stopped. The value is the counter-framing against the day's dominant narrative that AI created the build-too-much problem; this poster locates the failure mode in founder behavior rather than tooling economics. Single anecdote, no data, so weight accordingly.