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Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS by dgreensp on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:23PM (#16479105)
It does seem like if your SaaS product is truly "just for fun" and does not save anyone time or make or save anyone money, or teach a skill, or otherwise help the user be more productive, then you are right. What is an example?
Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS by Silhouette on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:38PM (#16479233)
Almost anything recreational and subscription-based seems to fit -- Netflix, for example -- unless we're arguing that this sort of thing isn't really a SaaS and different economics apply. Even if content-centric services are excluded, presumably all the recreational apps with some sort of tracking component would still qualify.
Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS by dgreensp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:23PM (#16485903)
I agree, if you have a consumer product and are trying to get a place in the customer’s monthly budget for entertainment/recreation, a different set of rules probably apply. These cases probably aren’t as central to what is thought of as “SaaS.”