Reddit: Cybersecurity Veteran Built Open-Source Delve Competitor in 8.5 Hours Using AI

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A 25-year cybersecurity company owner documented building an open-source competitor to Delve (which charges $10K–$80K/year for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance tooling) in just 8.5 hours using AI coding tools. The post sparked significant discussion about collapsing SaaS moats when a domain expert with AI tools can replicate years of product development in under a day. Illustrates the 'vibe coding' trend where domain expertise plus AI agents compress product timelines by orders of magnitude.