https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saas-customers/ https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saa... I believe this post wa

https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saas-customers/ https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saa... I believe this post was the genesis of the odesk idea. SaaS tends to be inexpensive compared to paying a human to do something, even if that human is underpaid, since costs are amortized across many customers. You're paying for something more similar to (CPU time+profit margin) instead of human time. I'd also hasten to add that there are two sided marketplaces where average costs are higher.