Can we talk about SaaS growth?
Building a SaaS business should be more straight forward. Most founders I’ve met with, completed their product development until they realized how time consuming it is to price, sell, and manage software. How much should you price your SaaS? How are you going to sell it to 10, 100, 1000 people? And once you sold to customers, how are you planning on managing the software and supporting your customers?
SaaS businesses can be very profitable, but if they overlook the complexity of managing SaaS, most of profit will have to be poured into support and management. That’s why I think building a SaaS business should be easier. You should have a magical toolbox. A toolbox that can help you price your SaaS, then sell it to customers, improve your marketing, and assist you in managing and supporting your software.
For the past two years, I have been working on building this magical toolbox and make it a reality. I’ve talked to many startups and the problem seem to be very common. There is simply no SaaS management tool out there. Today I am soft launching my software, https://servicebot.io . Servicebot is a platform to price, sell, and manage software.
I think sharing experiences in this community is as important as learning from it. I have learned so much in the past few weeks from IH. Thank you all!
I would love to hear your journey and your feedback. I will be in SF from July 19th to August 2nd, and I would love to grab a coffee and talk about the future of SaaS!
Talking about growth and pricing, why is ServiceBot so high?
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Your product is way to expensive for your target market, at least at this stage. All the effort you put in marketing will be in vain if the pricing will steer your audience away.
Seems you understood what the product does. Can you help me?
Is it same as Stripe + Baremetrics?
Isn't this post title abit of a bait and switch.
What does it have to do with SaaS GROWTH?
This site is absolutely plagued with advertisements disguised as questions. I'm not really sure what the policy on flagging them is, so I'm reluctant to... but it sucks.
IMO flagging bait and switch is alright. Like, this post would be a lot more fine if the title was actually in line with what the post is about. The fact you have to bait and switch kinda says something IMO. shrugs
hey @darafsheh, My name is Romaric and I am founder of MySocialApp.io. I saw your product on Reddit (I think) and I find it too expensive. How do you compare your solution to Zoho Subscriptions which brings almost all the features that ServiceBot provides? Thanks
Can you explain to me what this product does? Do you use Zoho Subscriptions? Is it === Stripe + Baremetrics or Chartmogul?
@emekaonu, I do not know Baremetrics or Chartmogul (I'll have a look later) but Zoho Subscriptions is a payment gateway in front of any payment system (Stripe, Paypal, and others...). Zoho gives the choice of payment to your customer. + you can manage products, invoices, API interconnect with your system.. We use it and it works pretty well.
I thought we were actually going to have a discussion about SAAS growth ...lol
Don't know but this kinda sounds useless to me. If you are developing a SaaS, creating a pricing page and including a module that handles subscriptions is a drop in a bucket of development time.
Freaking Laravel Spark which offers all you do and much more features for one time $99 fee. Laravel Spark will also give you full code ownership which means I don't have to worry about you guys going out of business and me losing mine as well.
No point in paying a VERY high monthly premium for something that is the smallest part of building a SaaS.
What does your product actually do? Can't I manage subscription directly in Stripe? And possibly use Chartmogul or Baremetrics for Analytics
Which aspects of SaaS growth would you like to discuss in particular?
I saved your product to my diary. Looks interesting. I will try your product as soon as I will finish my product.
Do you need the product if you can use Stripe with no issue?
IDK, I haven't checked this one.
Congrats on the soft launch! I'm not your target customer yet (my project just launched and we don't even have payment capabilities yet).
Question: does ServiceBot support mobile apps or is it focused on web apps?