> building some kind of SaaS API is probably not really possible for something that can be trivially implemented and operated locally A SaaS that allows you to

> building some kind of SaaS API is probably not really possible for something that can be trivially implemented and operated locally A SaaS that allows you to deploy APIs and handles Auth/Billing/Customer Support/Usage Metrics etc would be a viable service. There are plenty of 1 man APIs that could be built by an engineer if the heavy business aspects were taken care of.