Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

Discover the Future of AI-Powered Restaurant Websites in 2025

6 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Jason M. Lemkin remarks on the rapid rise of AI-powered website builders for restaurants (citing a product called Owner), calling the initial technology "jaw dropping" but predicting that by 2025 competitors will copy core features, leading to AI parity. He argues that niche/vertical SaaS will remain more differentiated because deep verticalization (e.g., automating workflows and eventually "automating humans out") yields next-level advantage beyond generic feature copying.

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Invested in owner, right, which is adjacent, right? Owner. Owner. Owner builds these like incredibly powerful websites through using AI for restaurants now, okay? And they're not the only one. But when it came out, it was, it's jaw dropping how good it is. But in 2025, everyone's going to have this feature and owner's going to have to have 20 more features because everyone's going to copy. It's like we're back to copying. We fell away from copying for a while in sas, right? And now we're all back to everybody quickly copying each other in AI. And I think in a way when I say that AI parity, I actually think the more vertical you are in SaaS and the more niche you are actually, the more differentiated it'll be. Right? Because when you're still competing with spreadsheets and paper, right? Automating workflow is great, but then automating humans out is next level.