Ask HN: Are there really over 150,000 SaaS companies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14433185

by going_to_800 • 9 years ago

8 7 9 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

By this article, there are over 150k unique apps connected to the cloud.

https://www.cloudlock.com/blog/the-explosion-of-apps-27-are-risky/

solomatov• 9 years ago

I believe this to be true. There's a large number of products which are used by small groups of people. For example, https://breederoo.com/

haidrali• 9 years ago

http://fieldzipper.com another SaaS company

wayn33• 9 years ago

I'm running 3 on the side. Each could easily sell for $5M down the line.

I have another 3 well researched ideas that can have similar outcomes.

SaaS is super easy when you go niche and aim for the 50k-100k MRR. You don't have to sell into enterprises to do that. Just have 1k customers paying $100 each. Solve some stupid problem in marketing and you've got yourself a viable SaaS.

There's no reason why there wouldn't be 100k engineers running a small SaaS on the side.

samblr2• 9 years ago

> I'm running 3 on the side. Each could easily sell for $5M down the line.

That is cool!

what are your cloud/infrastructure costs vs number of users ? And which cloud provider are you using ?

wayn33• 9 years ago

All those businesses combined could easily fit on one $40 digitalocean instance. They are split for business reasons, but the costs are essentially $0.

Ask HN: Are there really over 150,000 SaaS companies?

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