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Is this a viable idea?

Hello all, Loving the community here, I've been hanging around for a while now. An idea came to mind and I wanted to check with the community to see if its a valid idea.

The idea is software automation as a service. Basically a company signs up and chooses e2e flows they'd like to have automated. We'd automate those for certain fees and email/slack results(or only failures) daily.

My question for you guys is what do you think about this?

Thanks in advance.

on September 25, 2019
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    This seems like consulting. The cool thing about consulting is that it’s a lot easier to get customers than a SaaS. Obviously the downside is that you have high labor costs.

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      very true, pricing would be around $100 a month. Which would be a fraction of a fraction of consulting cost to the businesses that we want to market to.

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    The idea has been validated by https://www.uipath.com. I hear from one source that this is big business apparently and growing fast.

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      Interesting... they appear to be a tool sort of like selenium recorder. I’ll take a look at them some more

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    I've had similar thoughts before. But isn't this the same as freelancing/consulting? I always get stuck on what the distinction would be.

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      Right, so I believe the difference will be in the pricing and the possible ease of this, there will be selections of possible flows then if anything extra is required we have a consulting then.

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        there will be selections of possible flows

        So like, https://ifttt.com/, but with a human available behind the scenes? That's potentially interesting.