Bending Spoons' playbook is gouging
Many report 8-10x or worse Harvest price hikes, opaque usage-based fees, dark-pattern upgrades and layoffs, seeing it as the same squeeze-the-locked-in strategy used on Evernote, Vimeo and others.
Just build your own with AI
Numerous commenters replaced Harvest, Asana, Vimeo and similar with self-built or vibe-coded tools in hours or days, arguing SaaS moats for simple tools are evaporating.
Skeptics of DIY replacements
Others warn that homegrown tools carry maintenance burden, miss edge cases, are risky for payments/finance, and that 'one-shot' claims rarely come with code.