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Ask HN: Who Is Running a SaaS Business on Top of Open Source Product?
I see a bunch of open source software which can be offered as a SaaS solution. Did anyone find success doing it? What is your experience?
Edit: Replaced open source product with open source software
- LinuxBender 8y agoDo you mean a SaaS business utilizing open source software, or a SaaS business providing a PaaS/IaaS platform for others to build their business?
- drieddust 8y agoA SaaS Business utilizing the open source softwares.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI would suggest that most SaaS businesses make heavy use of a myriad of open source software. All of the SaaS providers that I am aware of use just about everything open source when they can. The exceptions arise when the business needs a particular service that they don't have the personnel or expertise to develop and support in-house, especially when that service is customer facing and is required to meet their service level agreements. Even then, that service may be comprised of open source and close sourced software, but commercially supported by a 3rd party.
- verdverm 8y agoAre you talking about OSS that solves some business need, but lacks a commercial entity / support? (Like as the core product?) Netlify is one example. You'll want to look into the particular projects license to make sure it is ok. Our SaaS is built / runs on a phenomenal amount of OSS. The core is not OSS yet, we create some OSS for non differentiating code, contribute back to the web framework we use.