2025-11-22. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 189)

📰 News

Is your software gross margin still 80%? Then you may be about to be eliminated

I think this point is especially worth thinking about for company executives. In the past, SaaS software was truly a money printer, with gross margins easily reaching 80% or 90%. Why? Because copying one more piece of software costs almost nothing.

But AI is different. AI consumes compute. Every additional user creates real incremental cost. So if your AI product still has extremely high gross margins, it may only mean one thing: not many people are actually using it.

In the future, lower gross margins may instead become a sign of success, because it means your AI features are being used. This is a hurdle that has to be crossed, just like when everyone moved from selling software discs to cloud services. Margins definitely fell, but the market became countless times larger. Clinging to the high margins of the past is the same as giving up the future.

🖥️ Software

Arcitext

Arcitext is a copywriting tool that uses AI to extract brand information, analyze tone, provide rewriting suggestions, and fact-check content against trusted sources.

EasyBreasy

EasyBreasy is an AI interview assistance tool that listens to conversations in real time and generates natural answers, helping users reduce pressure during interviews.

Tight Studio

Tight Studio is a screen recording app for quickly creating product demos, with powerful features such as AI narration, simple subtitle editing, and seamless media import.

Selectly

Selectly is an extensible toolkit based on web text selection and artificial intelligence. It offers translation, polishing, correction, and other features, and supports user-defined modules.

SpeakAI

SpeakAI is an AI app designed to help users improve communication skills, providing speaking practice and feedback on confidence, clarity, and fluency.

Formatic

Formatic is a client-side code formatting tool that formats code locally in the browser, helping keep code private.

EasyDev

EasyDev is an iOS app for learning programming. Built with SwiftUI, it provides interactive and highly descriptive learning content.

GroceryBudget

GroceryBudget is an iOS app that helps users track grocery spending in real time, with shopping lists, price memory, spending analysis, and other features.

CursorClip

CursorClip is an ultra-lightweight macOS screen recording app with automatic zoom, helping users quickly create professional screen recordings without time-consuming editing.

WaterTrack

WaterTrack is a simple water reminder app with no ads and no subscription, helping users maintain daily hydration goals.

Lazy Filler

Lazy Filler is a document automation tool that lets users upload contracts, create variables, and automatically generate new documents by filling out forms. It is designed for good scalability.

FinMonths

FinMonths is a micro-SaaS tool that helps users track expenses and calculate total spending and monthly costs.

Squat to Scroll

Squat to Scroll is an app that unlocks social media through squats. Users must complete 10 squats to get 30 minutes of scrolling time, aiming to reduce addiction and promote fitness.

Rechron

Rechron is a free open-source app for creating and sharing YouTube video loops. It supports saving, sharing, importing, and exporting loop segments, making it easy to access video clips quickly.

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