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And how is SaaS income “passive”? There is server support, sales, etc. Guess how many days sleep I’ve ever lost worrying about “market fit” or customer acquisi

And how is SaaS income “passive”? There is server support, sales, etc. Guess how many days sleep I’ve ever lost worrying about “market fit” or customer acquisition or whether my little SaaS company would be eaten alive by a better funded competitor? How many little SaaS companies even Net as much as the average new grad makes their first year at any tech company? I personally gladly choose not to have the stress of starting my own business or independent consulting. Even though I have the skillset and experience and pedigree to do “cloud consulting”. I have a whole organization full of lawyers, accountants, sales people, on call technical support so I can just wait for the next assignment. If I have an issue with an AWS service that I can’t solve, I just post my question to an internal Slack channel and one of the developers of the service answer my question.

gnicholas 4y ago
> And how is SaaS income “passive”? There is server support, sales, etc. It surely depends on your market, but things like sales are for generating new income. You can always stop working on sales and keep drawing existing income. I don't know how much server support most SaaS businesses entail, but in my (n = 1) experience, it's not a lot. I"m a little confused by your reference to independent consulting, which is not at all like SaaS. It has more flexibility than full-time employment, but it's still active income that you have to work for (with a minor exception for retainers). But it sounds like you aren't really interested in finding a way that passive income could be useful, and I'm not here to list all the reasons people like to run SaaS businesses. If the benefits don't stand out to you, then by all means you should do something else!

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And how is SaaS income “passive”? There is server support, sales, etc. Guess how many days sleep I’ve ever lost worrying about “market fit” or customer acquisi

by scarface74 4y ago

gnicholas 4y ago
> And how is SaaS income “passive”? There is server support, sales, etc. It surely depends on your market, but things like sales are for generating new income. You can always stop working on sales and keep drawing existing income. I don't know how much server support most SaaS businesses entail, but in my (n = 1) experience, it's not a lot. I"m a little confused by your reference to independent consulting, which is not at all like SaaS. It has more flexibility than full-time employment, but it's still active income that you have to work for (with a minor exception for retainers). But it sounds like you aren't really interested in finding a way that passive income could be useful, and I'm not here to list all the reasons people like to run SaaS businesses. If the benefits don't stand out to you, then by all means you should do something else!