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While I share the frustration with the constant need to fiddle with things, I am not sure if going a non-SaaS route is gonna solve this problem completely. Pay-

While I share the frustration with the constant need to fiddle with things, I am not sure if going a non-SaaS route is gonna solve this problem completely. Pay-once software at least has a clearer incentive to deliver improvements, so that you want to pay for the newer versions. So the need to grow might be even stronger. Ultimately old versions will also go out of support. Maybe OSS is the best bet, as long as the project is popular enough.

judge2020 6y ago
SaaS software on the other hand is more popular since the revenue stream is forcefully consistent no matter if you're putting out 10 features in a quarter or 1, or if the customer even wants to pay for whatever new feature the SaaS is putting out. With pay-once software, your revenue stream will fluctuate more depending on if you're putting out features everyone wants or not, which is great as a consumer (assuming your needs match with other customers) but could lead to huge financial issues (read: layoffs) if someone makes the wrong decision and develops features for 2 quarters in a row that no existing customer upgrades for.