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This would actually be ideal for a 1-person business. If you pay $25/year, then the guy only needs to find 10,000 people, to make $250,000/year. Not a bad salary.

Now, the question is, what type of SaaS service can you make, to find 10,000 people paying $25/year. One that hasn’t already been consumed by the big players.

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One strategy that works more often than you’d expect is to pick a business that’s successfully being run by Big Players today and wait for them to self destruct as a result of their need to get Bigger.

The business we’re discussing here is a good example of this process.

You forgot to remove the hardware, recurring cost(like the data link) and tax from this estimation.

I also wonder - in general - about the cost/effort to offer some form of support to 10.000+ users.

If half of them has even a basic question, that's already 5.000 answers to deal with.

A little bit more than 12 answers a day. But if they are basic questions you should be able to resolve a lot of them with a FAQ before you get to 10k customers.

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