SoftSelify

Soft Apps

The future of the web relies on open standards, flexible systems, interoperable tools, and first and foremost a focus on the human being.

Habitat's road to release: 07 bridging traditional SaaS apps - building [at] habitat

building bridges to the (organizational) atmosphere

Patchwork Notebook

Internal notes from our ongoing research into soft, softer and softest software

A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team

We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell

Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers

What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026

In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…

SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is. - The Phoenix Architecture

Everyone suddenly wants to tell you SaaS is dead. The Klarna-replaced-Salesforce story spread because it fit the mood, whatever the exact boundary between “…

croqaz/awesome-decentralized

🕶 Awesome list of distributed, decentralized, p2p apps and tools 👍

Enosis Solutions - Software Development and Testing Services

We design, build, test, modernize, and scale software across the entire product lifecycle, combining deep technical expertise with an AI-accelerated build process.

Disruption Ahead: AWS Quietly Axing Services

Amazon is quietly deprecating Cloud9, SimpleDB, CodeCommit and more services.

Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley

The problem with software is that it's too powerful. It creates so much wealth so fast that it's virtually impossible to not distribute it.

Cosmos Cloud

Private and secure cloud computing solutions for homes and businesses of all sizes.

Zach Lloyd on Twitter / X

The software factory approach is getting pretty popular, but it can be daunting to adopt all at once.Let's go through “crawl, walk, run” steps for making the transition from local, interactive agents to automated cloud development. https://t.co/RugDAn4Vqg— Zach Lloyd (@zachlloydtweets) September 15, 2026

GGV Capital API-First Index

At GGV Capital, we are focused on finding the most promising developer-first software companies commercializing APIs, having already backed Agora, Authing, Pinwheel, Mindee and Stream. We are going all-in on API companies because they will fundamentally simplify software development. APIs will allow developers to offload lower-value and time-consuming components of application development so they can focus on higher-value work. For example, instead of a company asking its developers to spend months writing code to accept payments for its software, they can get up and running quickly with Stripe. For authentication, they can use Auth0. For chat, they can use Stream.We expect the use of APIs to continue growing exponentially in the next few years, and many promising companies are building with an API-first approach, including Algoia for search, Mux for video, and Commerce Layer for e-commerce. The public markets are also taking notice. Twilio and Agora are now publicly traded. Okta acquired Auth0 for $6.5B. SoFi acquired Galileo for $1.2B. We expect this trend to continue.2023 Q2 Update Highlights 1) Investment activity continues at a slower pace in Q22) Cohere raised one of the largest funding rounds of Q2 at $270M 3) Two additions to the API-First Index: Clerk & LibLab‍2023 Q1 Update Highlights1) Slower investment activity continues in Q1 2023 2) Stripe raised one of the largest funding rounds of 2023 at $6.5B3) Two additions to the API-First Index: Finch & SyncteraIn 2022, we tracked VC deal activity for 120+ API-first companies across categories. Find out what we learned:2022 Year in Review Report.‍‍GGV Capital is tracking 150+ API-first companies. We have now expanded the API-First Index to include the 60+ private companies that have raised $50M+ in funding. With this Index, we are focusing on API-first companies and have not included the broader and flourishing API economy (but are also very excited about this, having backed Kong and Tray.io!). If you are building API-first, we would love to meet you! Please contact us at apifirstindex@ggvc.com to be included in our list.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.