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The other way to view is that even though you could undercut that business by two thirds, you didn’t make enough profit to make it worth pursuing over your day job.

So maybe you were selling it far too cheap after all.

I would've made significant more than my day job just by subscriptions (not counting share value). I had just joined workforce and leaving it so early didn't seem right to me.

For most of these companies sales and marketing is the moat.

Edit: curious to know what was the SaaS that got rattled by your fun experiment.

I'll dm u :)

> and this is the main reason most companies overhire. It's so that engineers are less inclined to go home and build their own competitor.

This is most definitely not true.

If hosting is cheap, I'd be tempted to put it out for free just to up the ante with the other company.