Ask HN: Full SaaS vs. Boutique Consultancy

Try the consultancy first and see if there's even enough overlap between client expectations for a SaaS. My former company started as consultancy and after months we learned no client requests was like the other, be it data they needed, in which format or number of revision, it was one custom job after the next. We chose to pivot instead of trying to create a super generic service.

Could you setup a subscription service and have some human elements behind the scenes performing part of the work initially then slowly replace it part by part with a true SaaS.

> implementing a full SaaS would be an unaffordable bloodbath...

Solve this problem -Think Crowdfunding style.

Say, you need 10 clients subscribing @ $10-20K/year.

Will the numbers work for everyone?