SaaS Startup Viability

Discussions evaluate the business potential of a specific developer tool or service, with users suggesting it as a startup idea, praising its market fit, but warning about challenges like easy replication by developers, churn, and competition.

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B2B SaneBox OP AppEngine ycombinator.com helpful.io SMB summize.com SendGrid i.e service business competitors offering nextcloud customers pay market startup offer

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sixQuarks Mar 16, 2013 View on HN

you want me to be honest? This feels like a feature to me, not a business. Very hard to get traction with something like this.

nafizh May 26, 2017 View on HN

This might be a good idea for a startup where they create a plug and play service so users do not have to go through all of this.

bjplink Oct 6, 2010 View on HN

It might not be worth the effort but you might want to consider making this available to the public as a service for freelancers.

rickysahu Feb 27, 2024 View on HN

theres a number of dead bodies in this space. it sounds like a great idea but once companies get big theyll diy. so your only market will be early startups for 1-3 years max and then theyll churn bf they ever get big enough to pay you what it's worth to get them on your platform in rhe first place. look at aptible and datica.

passerby1 Dec 18, 2021 View on HN

Sounds like an idea for startup ;-) Serioualy, there's market for this, and people are gonna pay money for the service.

shimon Aug 9, 2012 View on HN

This looks well done. Congratulations on building a cool product!A word of caution on this as a business, though: this is going to be brutal. You're selling a service that every competent web developer can build. You can save them time -- but not a huge amount of time, especially compared to the prepackaged user registration apps that already exist for common web frameworks. And the customers that grow really big will have strategic reasons to want to move off of your service, in addition to

simonebrunozzi Sep 29, 2023 View on HN

Also reason why Canva is worth a lot. Similar pain point being solved.

srameshc Dec 19, 2024 View on HN

There was a startup that was doing something similar, can't find it but their entire business was built on providing similar service.

rando444 Sep 25, 2016 View on HN

You're critiquing this service like it hasn't been launched yet.Despite people being able to do this for 'much less', the man built a successful business providing a service that people are willing to pay for.Every business has competitors and often you can do the same thing that a business does yourself. This is true for everything from restraunts to taxis to clothing stores.The lesson here is to not overlook creating something simple that can provide value to othe

dmor Sep 29, 2009 View on HN

seems like doing something they are trying to do themselves could be good, perhaps they'll purchase it? that's what they did with summize.com for twitter search... and they have quite a bit more cash now than they did then