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Ask HN: Are SaaS Businesses Commoditized?

#1
There are so many SaaS competitors in every space.

Most of them seem incrementally better than the others (or much better but not 10X better as the old adage used to be).

Are all new SaaS businesses effectively a play on "Your margin is my opportunity"?

What do you think?

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#4
Margin can be an opportunity (incumbent overly expensive options are what a lot of solo startups can pick away at).

But there is more. For example being a smaller company that gives more attention, or being a bigger one that can tick all your compliance requirements. Or being local (same country). Or just marketing to a group that doesn’t know the other options.

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#5
My point of view as the maker of the 200th uptime monitor (that also handles status pages and heartbeat/cron job monitoring - https://OnlineOrNot.com ):

It's more like, "[their] mediocrity is my opportunity".

Folks are tired of paying a premium price for UI you have to train people to use because it's not intuitive.

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#7
"Commoditize" refers to a process in which a product is essentially deemed identical to the same class of offering presented by a rival company. Commoditized products allow consumers to make purchasing decisions based solely on the price-tags of the item in question."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commoditize.asp

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#8
post #6

what is commoditized means?

"Commoditize" refers to a process in which a product is essentially deemed identical to the same class of offering presented by a rival company. Commoditized products allow consumers to make purchasing decisions based solely on the price-tags of the item in question."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commoditize.asp

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post #7

"Commoditize" refers to a process in which a product is essentially deemed identical to the same class of offering presented by a rival company. Commoditized products allow consumers to make purchasing decisions based solely on the price-tags of the item in question." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commoditize.asp

Yeah, I too wouldn't agree that different SaaS businesses are equivalently fungible.
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