What is the Shopify equivalent in Saas?
Shopify lets anyone launch an e-commerce store very easily.
Is there something similar for Saas?
Inspired by this conversation I had on twitter with @jakobgreenfeld
There is a lot of infrastructure that is common to all Saas apps.
Payment, emails, etc.
Saas apps all deliver different outcomes, but a lot of the infrastructure is the same.
There are a lot of tools that do parts of that infrastructure. But still not as easily as something like Shopify.
I almost imagine a Saas company to start Saas companies, that 'delivers the box after payment' but you decided what goes in the box.
Your Saas helps used clothes sellers? Out of the box you get accounts, emails, payment accepting etc. You do the last part and ingest the APIs and give results.
Your Saas helps people send links that never expire? Same as above. Out of the box you get accounts, emails, payment accepting etc. You do the last part and ingest the APIs and give results.
Interesting idea. I guess the main reason why there isn't such a service (or one that I know of) is because most of the sub-services (the ones you described: emails, accounts, payments) are already pretty easy to integrate with whatever youre doing. Another thing to consider is Shopify is aimed at mostly businesses who doesn't want to hire a developer to make their website, while Saas are built by mostly tech people. (IMO)
Make sense. However if feels like there is still an opportunity here. For example I want to make a simple Saas app to export data from a certain website. I can code, but I don't want to integrate emails, accounts, payments. I just want to do the one piece that is unique to my Saas idea.
I could see this work as an open source software with paid plans (something like gitlab). Customization is a make or break with these kind of software and open sourcing would fix this problem. If youre going this route feel free to hit me up, would gladly help on open source. Best of luck.