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Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by Adrig »

mattm wrote: post #35

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. > Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working versi…

> Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them.

100%, which is why I think hyper-tailored, small software is an exciting option. When you shift your goal to serve 1000 customers, the hardest part is not having a tech stack that supports them, but making sure the software is good enough for all their different needs. Or you try to meet them all and you get into feature creep.

> For businesses, the buy vs. build tradeoff does now have some new compelling evidence in favour of "buy" but there's still maintenance needed for the service internally

What if you neither buy or build the software but buy the service outcome?

A data analyst that creates custom workflows with auto-generated dashboards. A dev-ops that provides access with exactly the information you need, depending on the hand-off level you want for the process.

My point is that a lot of these micro tools that started to appear the last few years will vanish, either bundled with bigger SAAS, internalized, or shifted to a service offering. This trend started with productized services, this is the next step.

> SaaS is far from dead.

Micro SAAS*. I agree with all your points, but I do believe the small software landscape will change drastically in the coming years

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by jaggederest »

Adrig wrote: post #38
jaggederest wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thus demonstrating that the final accessibility gate must be "the mark I human eyeball". Looks impossible to read without reader mode on my screen. Your "paper" choice is #bfbfc4 - even going to #ddd makes the APCA go from ~63 to 80 and would probably address the complaints handily. WCAG has a lot of gaps.

But human eyeballs can vary wildly, hence the need for tools. I'm the kind of person who uses the sepia mode for reading, so I didn't expect such strong discomfort from readers. This feedback surfaced a lot here, so it was a blind spot on my part. Anyway, did a quick fix, should be enough for now

I actually have a panel that I've collected over time, starting with a former coworker who was visually impaired, and I am now thinking it should be some kind of users-signup-and-give-feedback system, some sort of statistical sampling of a few people across the accessibility needs spectrum.

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by isodev »

Adrig wrote: post #23
skiing_crawling wrote: post #3

This has that weird "AI written" sentence structure.

Fable helped me edit since I'm not a native English speaker, so I might not catch these subtleties. Thought and structure are my own

It’s very difficult to read. It would’ve been better for you to just write it in your native language

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by Adrig »

MattPerry wrote: post #37

All of the comments about the color contrast and mouse click action caused this site to change while I was reading.

Haha sorry about that. I made the changes quickly since a lot of people were reading, and I wanted people to focus on the content

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by Adrig »

sodapopcan wrote: post #42
lekevicius wrote: post #2

Unrelated, but since I see that the author posted this to HN: for a reader like me who likes to select text / fidget with mouse clicks as I read, this website is a nightmare.

Has it been fixed? What was the effect, I'm so curious now.

Yes, disabled on the heavy text pages, still present on the home page!

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by cpill »

sandcat_ wrote: post #50
mattm wrote: post #35

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. > Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working versi…

This is just the old argument in favour of SaaS, though. The article is pointing out that those long-standing rules may no longer make sense, in a world where 1. it no longer takes even a weekend to build the niche, perfectly custom tool and 2. the maintenance / feature requests side is also just a prompt away. At my job (we're somewhere in the transition between startup -> enterprise), we still use a lot of SaaS and…

I think small, ma and pa businesses who don't know anything about software engineering will still need support.

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Post by mariopt »

I don't buy it, this is essentially vibe-consulting.

Deal with one customer can be quite a nightmare, and honestly, sometimes using off the shelf solutions can result in saving time and money.

Even today I'm creating SaaS, not every problem is simple to solve. Take a look at CRMs, there are thousands of CRMs due to enormous egos wanting to build "my way", "the way", "the superior way", "our company is not like others (LOL)", etc. At the end of the day it's just a database with CRUDish UI.

My customers pay me to solve their problem well because they can not solve it themselves, when they do they just don't have the time.

Reality check: I have been coding many products with all frontiers models: Still takes a lot of time and, surprise surprise!, money for tokens. Ironically software development became more expensive for serious software that won't vibe-break/vibe-delete-prod/vibe-delete-database.

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by [deleted] »

mattm wrote: post #35

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them. > Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working versi…

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Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by sodapopcan »

Adrig wrote: post #55
sodapopcan wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has it been fixed? What was the effect, I'm so curious now.

Yes, disabled on the heavy text pages, still present on the home page!

Oh, haha! I actually love shit like this, but ya, not in a blog as I'm also a mouse-fidgetter. You could tone activating it down a bit by only activating it on a quick click and not at all if there is selected text [/END advice-no-one-asked-me-for]

Re: Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

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Post by JackSlateur »

khasan222 wrote: post #25

Idk if I disagree completely but it feels like I do. To elaborate, I don’t think we will see less applications, I think we will see more with better features. My reasoning is people aren’t happy with many of the titans we have for certain apps, uber is my favorite example. Everyone hates the price it charges thinks it’s unfair, but to go back to a time before uber is unfathomable. That to me is a ripe market to be ov…

Bad example: uber is not a saas at all

It's a network.

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