Totally. However, when you start as a service, you can quickly get cashflow and use that money to self fund your saas dev. Once your SaaS starts growing you can

Totally. However, when you start as a service, you can quickly get cashflow and use that money to self fund your saas dev. Once your SaaS starts growing you can decrease and maybe at some point kill the service part of the business (or keep it around as a premium upsell). It's the best way I know to bootstrap a business without having to live on ramen.