Understanding the SaaS arbitrage

If you go to Quora and search for "How I can sell my bootstrapped SaaS business", you can find a long thread. People there, many of them, have gone through a painful and lengthy process of contacting the third party for business valuation, then negotiation with investors, then still see them walk away. In fact, 80% of SaaS acquisition cases end up failures. That's not to mention the amount of time the due diligences usually take 12 to 14 months.

I have wondered why we don't cut the middlemen and just directly negotiate with people interested in our SaaS businesses. We all know the value of our products by their utilities. Why do we hire someone else to talk about our products to potential buyers when we are the ones that understand our work the most? And even if the deal fails, we still have to pay our middlemen for their services. That's not a cheap cost for indie hackers like ourselves.

Therefore, I think it would be great to create a platform like SaaSmeerkat so that indie hackers like me, my friends, and even you guys can find and sell our SaaS businesses directly to our buyers without paying an extra dime for middlemen. Save your money and time by joining us. The platform is all free of charge.