RescueTime was approached by AppSumo (Noah Kagan) and we did it. It's a no-brainer for the participating firms. SaaS has nearly 100% margins-- the only meanin

RescueTime was approached by AppSumo (Noah Kagan) and we did it. It's a no-brainer for the participating firms. SaaS has nearly 100% margins-- the only meaningful cost is people (sunk cost) and customer acquisition (hella crazy hard/expensive once you try to scale beyond WoM). Being a company that participates in these deals gets you: 1) A bunch of (largely) non-paying users. Maybe you get a few grand in revenue. Meh. But some subset of those will get addicted and will be full price to renew. 2) A ton of links. Hellloooooo SEO. 3) A ton of new people talking about you. Hellooooo word of mouth. Definitely a great option.