Everyone’s heard of SaaS — Software as a Service. But have you heard of PaaS. And no, we’re not talking about Platform as a Service — that’s so 2020. We’re talking about Prompt as a Service.

Got a problem you wanted to solve, but AI already did 90% of the job for you?

Build a PaaS.

Wrap your single ChatGPT prompt in a half-decent UI — obviously vibe-coded in React — and watch the clicks and downloads flood your landing page. Then, mount your high horse and craft a quick LinkedIn post about how agentic AI is changing the world, and how your new startup BusinessPlanAI is set to disrupt the $19 billion business plan market (a number ChatGPT generously made up while hyping your pitch deck).

Slap on your Prompt Engineer™ hat and refine that business-plan-generating prompt until even the sharpest VC can’t tell it’s smoke and mirrors. Not that it matters — your product has “AI” in the name.

Congratulations. You’re now an AI Guru™ / CEO / Entrepreneur. Time to update LinkedIn.

Start posting visionary threads about the glorious AI future. And don’t forget to remind everyone — every 3 months — that all software engineers will be obsolete within 6 months. (We’re currently on year 2.5 of that timeline.)

But let’s not daydream just yet.

As responsible engineers prompt engineers, we must tackle this methodically.

Step 1: Get a business idea

Fire up ChatGPT and ask prompt the age-old question:

“How do I get rich quick with an AI SaaS?”

(Prompt as a Service still isn’t mainstream, but one day…)

Step 2: Vibe-code the frontend

Subscribe to Claude Code Pro for $200/month and let it vibe-code your UI.

Spin up 15 agents for 36 hours and voilà — a beautifully inconsistent React app is born.

And you know you are doing good when you got useEffect on every second line.

Step 3: Connect-the-dots backend with n8n

Install n8n like a real AI Bro and start dragging nodes until you’ve got something vaguely backend-ish. Sure, it barely works, but who cares — we’re building a Prompt-as-a-Service, not a launch system for SpaceX.

Step 4: Time to raise capital

March into a VC meeting and DEMO. THE. PROMPTING.

But don’t pitch it as a “Prompt as a Service”. Instead, call it:

“Agentic AI Crypto Big Data B2B SaaS for disrupting the X industry.”

There’s no need to prep for questions — they’ll tune out right after “Agentic AI.”

Step 5: Become the AI Thought Leader You Were Meant to Be

LinkedIn is now your battlefield.

Spam it like your life depends on it.

Every post should mention AI, Agents, and how your startup is ushering in a paradigm shift.

If you’re feeling frisky, sprinkle in a little blockchain or neuro-symbolic architecture. Doesn’t matter what it means — it just has to sound good.

Step 6: Monetization Strategy (a.k.a. Slap Stripe on It)

Pricing is hard. Don’t do it.

Just plug in Stripe and pick three tiers that sound premium but mean absolutely nothing:

  • $9.99/mo – Casual Prompting: For hobbyists who want to feel like they’re building the future while mostly generating Instagram captions.
  • $49.99/mo – Agentic Power User: For serious prompters who demand their GPT calls come with dark mode and a dashboard.
  • $499.99/mo – Enterprise Quantum Prompting at Scale™: For the C-suite exec who wants to show investors they’re “leveraging AI” without knowing what a prompt is.

Make sure to include a fake annual discount no one ever uses and a free trial that requires a credit card “for verification purposes.”

Step 7: Exit Strategy (because why actually build anything?)

Every proper PaaS startup needs a clear endgame — ideally one that requires minimal execution.

Here are your options:

  • Get acquired by a Series Z startup run by a 14-year-old with a Discord server and a hype video.
  • Get “poached” by a multi-billion dollar company as an “AI Prompting Expert”
  • Rebrand as an AI Infrastructure company. Say something along the lines of “we’re building tooling for agents to collaborate at scale” in investor calls until someone throws money at you. Bonus points if you make some LinkedIn posts.
  • Open-source it all and post on Hacker News with the title: “We built a $3M ARR PaaS and shut it down to focus on our next project.”. Now you might not get the money but at least you got the clout.

And that’s it.

You’re now running a successful PaaS startup.

See you at the next AI summit fellow prompters.