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I started a SaaS service [1], in Aug 2019, to extract tables from images and scanned PDFs. Launched with a post on hacker news. I added couple of contractors wh
by saradhi 6y ago
I started a SaaS service [1], in Aug 2019, to extract tables from images and scanned PDFs. Launched with a post on hacker news. I added couple of contractors who share the development on-demand. Last month, for the first time, we hit 10K users, no paid advertising, hitting 170K requests per month. Not expecting to cash out any profits now, investing them in the development. Now, I'm dealing B2B contracts and taking customizations for the businesses. The goal is to hit at least 3K in profit by next year end. Also, releasing a light weight version of the current published version as a new SaaS [2] at low cost.
[1]: https://extracttable.com https://extracttable.com
[2]: https://imagetoexcel.com https://imagetoexcel.com
- tikkotikki 6y agoLooking at your post history tells me that you took another person’s open source software and trying selling it as pro version without credit. Why did you do that? Do you have any ethical sense when building or selling software?
- saradhi 6y agoThat was the wrong assumption, as we released a library that imitates to be a pro version from the contributors of open sourcem We sorted it out by unpublishing the library. That's nothing to do with their tech in backend. Feel free to make comparisons on the output quality.
- dahx4Eev 6y agoWhich OSS?
- catacombs 6y agoTabula