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I believe that only a small fraction of SAAS ever makes it to HN and ProductHunt. HN and PH audience is 99% of Marketing and / or Tech people. Coincidentally,

by daolf 5y ago

I believe that only a small fraction of SAAS ever makes it to HN and ProductHunt. HN and PH audience is 99% of Marketing and / or Tech people. Coincidentally, those people make product for Marketing and Tech people, and of course promote on website visited by Marketing and Tech people. But basically anything outside of those two realms feels completely under-addressed by SAAS: - industry - public services - waste management - etc mostly "unsexy things".

mromanuk 5y ago
> But basically anything outside of those two realms feels completely under-addressed by SAAS: > - industry - public services - waste management - etc I hear this a lot. Couldn't be that everyone (makers/founders) addresses these PH/PH spaces because they are packed with early adopters instead of the other industries where every new innovation will be taken with FUD? And that's the cause that it's under-addressed. It's hard to convince "classic" industries to adopt new SW stuff and new paradigms.
wongarsu 5y ago
The availability of SaaS is also a product the values of the various industries. There are lots of marketing-oriented SaaS because it's an easy market to sell to: they are very open to experimenting and taking risks, make decisions very quickly and have near limitless budgets. In industries where decisions happen slowly and budgets are limited it's harder to get a foothold, harder to grow, and if you do succeed you're less likely to be a fast-growing exciting startup that a venture-oriented place like HN talks about.
cushychicken 5y ago
>HN and PH audience is 99% of Marketing and / or Tech people. That's why you should probably avoid posting here if you don't want copycats. Serve a totally different market, and make it to the front page of that market's HN. Then you're in business. You can post to HN as a victory lap/vanity metric when you've got a moat of traction. :)
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kirso 5y ago
This! The biggest opportunity is in SaaS for industries where techies don't see problems or were not really digitized yet. The setback is that they are pretty boring and you have to many times deal with different people in terms of sales. But thats where the gold is.

by daolf 5y ago

mromanuk 5y ago

> But basically anything outside of those two realms feels completely under-addressed by SAAS: > - industry - public services - waste management - etc I hear this a lot. Couldn't be that everyone (makers/founders) addresses these PH/PH spaces because they are packed with early adopters instead of the other industries where every new innovation will be taken with FUD? And that's the cause that it's under-addressed. It's hard to convince "classic" industries to adopt new SW stuff and new paradigms.

wongarsu 5y ago

The availability of SaaS is also a product the values of the various industries. There are lots of marketing-oriented SaaS because it's an easy market to sell to: they are very open to experimenting and taking risks, make decisions very quickly and have near limitless budgets. In industries where decisions happen slowly and budgets are limited it's harder to get a foothold, harder to grow, and if you do succeed you're less likely to be a fast-growing exciting startup that a venture-oriented place like HN talks about.

cushychicken 5y ago

>HN and PH audience is 99% of Marketing and / or Tech people. That's why you should probably avoid posting here if you don't want copycats. Serve a totally different market, and make it to the front page of that market's HN. Then you're in business. You can post to HN as a victory lap/vanity metric when you've got a moat of traction. :)

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kirso 5y ago

This! The biggest opportunity is in SaaS for industries where techies don't see problems or were not really digitized yet. The setback is that they are pretty boring and you have to many times deal with different people in terms of sales. But thats where the gold is.