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What happens after Tiny acquisition? Cost cutting?

• sudhirj 5y ago
  I'm speculating, but based on friends who work in this industry the apps are put into maintenance mode, with one hired/contract developer in charge of two or three apps — assuming it's a SaaS app that doesn't need a team. If the product is still on a growth trajectory or needs a specialised team I think it's a very case-to-case basis. Cost cutting is one tool in the toolbox, and it's usually only used when the owner thinks the product is already dying and wants to squeeze value out of it. From what Tiny says they might not be buying products like that. That said, I feel like the Baremetrics emails started getting a little more spammy and frequent once they were bought, but I might be mistaken, it was a while ago. It's possible there's a growth hacking team that Tiny has that takes over all the products.
• aitchnyu 5y ago
  I worked in a US group that acquired competing SaaS products. The individual teams were small and had jack of all trades. The group prided themselves in attaching rocket engines to the bikes they bought. They could outsource specific work to India (yours truly) and other countries, hire top engineers, consultants and designers full time to improve multiple projects, monitor uptime and performance, build a big customer care team (India and other countries) and more.