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I'm struck by two things as I mull over how I'll monetize my own SaaS app that I've started ideating. Firstly, the author says to rather sell to businesses tha
by skc 6y ago
I'm struck by two things as I mull over how I'll monetize my own SaaS app that I've started ideating.
Firstly, the author says to rather sell to businesses than to individuals. Fine.
Secondly, one of his links (https://makebook.io/ https://makebook.io/) says monetize by asking users for money, and makes a point of saying don't use ads anywhere.
But if my product is aimed at consumers, why not monetize with ads if it's notoriously difficult to get users to pay 5 or 10 bucks?
- t0mas88 6y agoBecause $10 is roughly 10,000 ad views (unless you have a specific high demand audience that people find hard to reach somewhere else then you get paid more per view). A typical user will not view 10,000 ads on your app/site in their lifetime.
- pembrook 6y agoAdvertising doesn't become viable until you're getting 50K+ visitors a month, and in a niche where people will actually click ads. And even then, if it's an unprofitable niche (like say, home cooking), you'd have to multiply that by 10X to reach a good six figure income. By viable, I mean making more money than you would working as a software engineer in a big city.