How to Win at Micro-SaaS

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27 points·mooreds··5 comments

Classically isn’t this just a point solution?

> “point solution” in technology or business describes a specialized offering – it can be a piece of software, product, or tool designed to address one specific problem within an organization or enterprise.

Plenty of products start this way but due to success get hungrier/greedier and through internal and external pressures expand with additional SKUs to expand their TAM (total addressable market) and their value.

Yup, I think characterizing a micro-saas as a software based point solution is fair.

That second paragraph, "hungrier and greedier", is the problem with the entire capitalistic system. If only people stayed small, they'd be happier, have more time, and there would be a wider more diverse set of products available for the public. More importantly, staying small avoids many of the problems startups often hit. It's much easier to handle the culture and internal communications, you don't need investment, and you can focus on making a fantastic product for your much more cohesive set of customers.

Customers don’t generally want to manage many many small products that don’t talk to each other when they reach a certain size.

You might have a cohesive set of customers but the vast majority of micro startups just don’t get enough customers to sustain themselves which is why they move to attract larger customers.

As if this wasn't a problem in communism with its horrendous gigantic state owned companies with millions of employees that always completed the plan to 120% and yet couldn't ever provide a stable supply of basic necessities.

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