No Export Button? No Problem. How I Used Cursor AI to Break Vendor Lock-in (Harvest Backup Tool)
Do you use SaaS Tools? I'd be surprised if not. How many of your SaaS tools provide you an automated full backup of your own data? Probably few to none. Do you want to have a backup or export of your own data? Yes, probably you do (and I want to have that for sure!). In the past, the conversation was over at this point. The SaaS vendor in question doesn't provide an automated backup or export for our data, and that is it. The reason for our capitulation in face of the sad facts is that creating a backup tool for every single SaaS vendor we use was simply way too expensive and not feasible. Today, with the friendly help of LLMs and vibe coding, the conversation is not over and we can simply help ourselves. Many SaaS offerings do have APIs and grant low-level access to our data, they just didn't bother to implement a backup and restore function. For LLMs, create a tool to download all data via the API based on the documentation is one of the more simple problems to solve. Es...