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Business-wise SaaS seems vastly superior compared to traditional one-off software selling but lately, I have begun to recognise the areas where the latter excel
by shubhamjain 10y ago
Business-wise SaaS seems vastly superior compared to traditional one-off software selling but lately, I have begun to recognise the areas where the latter excels. Selling SaaS is hard. You have to care of support, billing, failed charges, churn and thousands of other little things to get it off the ground. In comparison, selling small apps, plugins, and desktop software — while may yield lower revenue per month — is something more doable as a side-project. You can bank on platforms like Fastspring and App Stores, ship your product and expend less hours fighting fires.
If my memory serves right, Eager Apps, one-man company behind Postico, makes around $10K / month selling a Mac App for Postgres administration.
I think being entrepreneur is vastly more fruitful and less stressful with small stepping stones and for a start, it's a better to sell small things on side then dive into growing the $10K Month SaaS.
- iamabraham 10y agoI think you're overstating the enormity of building a SaaS. "Support, billing, failed charges, churn, and thousands of other things" are easily managed when there is 1 customer. 2 customers is a little more difficult. 3 even moreso. But most SaaS founders I know of would agree that in the early stages, the "I am not sure if this is actually going to work" stages, managing things that become a headache at scale is actually quite manageable. You don't start with 1,000 clients thankfully. You start with 0. And then 1. And so on and so forth.