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SaaS is not bad at all, but when it's misused. Current example is ticketing. Two of my clients need a solution to manage ticketing and subscribers. They went w
by kowdermeister 10y ago
SaaS is not bad at all, but when it's misused.
Current example is ticketing. Two of my clients need a solution to manage ticketing and subscribers. They went with Eventbrite, even tough it's a bit expensive. It saves them tons of time and money. Sometimes it makes little sense to develop such a system for somebody if they have 2 events / year.
Often, third parties are much better in quality, than an in-house dev could create. I would only pick a third party service if it has many competitors, so easily disposable.
I've been screwed by this before, I built on an API before and the legal team shut down my API key for bullshit reason. 1 year of devtime went down the drain :) Long story short, SaaS is bad for mission critical features, otherwise great helpers on the short / mid run.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThe distinction of core/critical and non-critical aspects of your business is a good one. I'm not saying "don't use SaaS at all" (even though I dislike the world of short-lived, data-siphoning services we've created). But betting the life of your business on a third-party service makes sense only if the expected life of your business is shorter than the expected life of the service you want to use. And I think we could all use more longer-living solutions.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoTo quote Joel Spolsky "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html