List of SaaS services that a modern tech company pays for.
https://www.notion.so/bbf18630e4154072a538485f45a9a6e2?v=0e2a6e82b0bf4c008c92412a4e942e1b
Found this on HackerNews today and found it super interesting. Some thoughts:
- I see this as validation that going after niche SaaS is a good business option. Check out how focused some of those services are!
- It's wild how many SaaS services even a smaller business utilizes.
- The pricing based on the problem solved is quite interesting. Some are higher or lower than I thought.
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I'm officially going to nominate "validation" as the most overused word of 2019.
Probably it is still easier to use these services than write some custom solutions .
I think if you can find a niche problem some companies are willing to pay for then it worth to build it.
Many of the big companies started with a super niche solution. My fav example is Microsoft. When they started, microcomputers were really slow and hard to use. Nobody believed it will be the next big thing. But the founders of Microsoft realised that the market will change and expand quickly. So instead of focusing on the big machines at the time they joined to a niche market :) And we know how the story continued.
Important to note that this is just the engineering expensen. Presumably they also pay for services in other departments (HR, Finance etc)