Adobe Photoshop comes to mind, probably the most successful SaaS until today.
Users are generally not so happy about the monetization model, though.
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#22You are selling a framework, not an application, so why in the world are you comparing yourself to a SaaS which means literally "software as a service", which you are not. No one is going to pay for your "framework", less of all developers.
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#23You are selling a framework, not an application, so why in the world are you comparing yourself to a SaaS which means literally "software as a service", which you are not. No one is going to pay for your "framework", less of all developers.
Sounds like they're aiming for PaaS with a proprietary framework? Works for fly.io and others - and if they found a growing niche and are targeting it well... I can picture some of the same techniques that work for B2B SaaS work there.
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#24From my marketing knowledge, IoT is NOW very special thing, You must do widely used hardware to make additional services for it. Or You could stay on shoulders of somebody, who have very successful hardware, but in this case, your business will be depend on them.
I know very few examples of successful IoT businesses, and they all working with model I said: Ring (now Amazon Ring), Ajax (home security).
May it will change in nearest future, but now I know lot of unsuccessful IoT businesses, who tried to use others hardware as foundations.
I'm electronics and software dev with lot of experience, if you wish to talk about hardware, I'm open. Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: Can anyone share cases study of successful SaaS getting into the market?
#25MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.
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#26MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.
Thanks for the MicroConf shout!
Check out https://youtube.com/microconf and https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com for a long list of SaaS founder stories/case studies.
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#27You need to find a model customer that's representative of their market and establish a close working relationship because they'll be instrumental on understanding what customers actually expect.
They'll help you get your product-market fit, and expand from there.
At first you usually have some huge blind spots in your product offering and you need someone to help you validate.
Focus on the problem you're solving for them, the product will grow from there.
Re: Ask HN: Can anyone share cases study of successful SaaS getting into the market?
#28MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.
Thanks for the MicroConf shout! Check out https://youtube.com/microconf and https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com for a long list of SaaS founder stories/case studies.
Rob and the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast are excellent. If you’re a bootstrapped sustainable-growth small partnership, their advice is golden. And oftentimes counter to the splashy stuff on Medium and Twitter.
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#29With something like an IoT development framework, advertising and promotion is certainly not the way to begin. Have a look at the book called "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg to get an idea of the different GTM strategies.
You should have a target customer in mind and that will guide the strategies that you'll need to reach them.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just checked your comment and submission history but couldn’t find anything.
It got flagged, that's probably why it doesn't show up.
I am tempted to vouch it (I am not a mod but have enough karma).
Before I do have I missed something where it deserved to be flagged?