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0 pointsvarjag3y ago0 comments

Then one day Google tweaks their model in an unfortunate way and you fall all the way down that vertical.

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Just build a product that is even slightly reliant upon customer service. They won't know how to compete.

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The 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.

varjagOP3y ago

Anything a SaaS platform provides can be replicated in-house. The same can't be said for a bleeding-edge 10 billion dimensional model.

erispoe3y ago

Can you give an example?

damascus3y ago

A large majority of SaaS businesses can be done for free with an Excel spreadsheet, but many of them are still making millions a year.

taqticsai3y ago

Interesting. Such as?

maximus-decimus3y ago

YNAB, 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.

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