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Then one day Google tweaks their model in an unfortunate way and you fall all the way down that vertical.
by varjag 3y ago
Then one day Google tweaks their model in an unfortunate way and you fall all the way down that vertical.
- erispoe 3y agoCan you give an example?
- damascus 3y agoA large majority of SaaS businesses can be done for free with an Excel spreadsheet, but many of them are still making millions a year.
- taqticsai 3y agoInteresting. Such as?
- maximus-decimus 3y agoYNAB, the budgeting app is a good example. Having it as an online app means you can use it from many computers or a phone, but at its core it's really just a spreadsheet.
- morkalork 3y agoThe same can be said of any of their service offerings. You could build a business around something MS/Oracle/Google provides and they could one day decide to deprecate it.
- varjag 3y agoAnything a SaaS platform provides can be replicated in-house. The same can't be said for a bleeding-edge 10 billion dimensional model.
- pydry 3y agoJust build a product that is even slightly reliant upon customer service. They won't know how to compete.
- cbreezyyall 3y agoThis comment isn't getting the recognition it deserves.