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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by sigil on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:56PM (#16681469)
No worries. I agree "SaaS" might be a bit of a misnomer in our case, but we wanted to distinguish ourselves from desktop software (which still rules our industry).

Thanks for reading!

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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by iampliny on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:07PM (#16681551)
Hi, other founder here. Does "SaaS" have to be synonymous with a subscription business model?
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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by wink on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:17PM (#16681626)
I wouldn't put it synonymous, but most of the SaaS products I've ever paid and used were based on monthly/yearly subscriptions and were not "pay per use", so that's probably why people mostly use it that way - but there's credit token models though, e.g. SauceLabs or Audible where your monthly payments grants you N tokens to spend now or later.
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Re:Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Ex... by rsweeney21 on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:26PM (#16682232)
SaaS does not imply a recurring billing model. Stripe, Twilio, Square, Facebook, Google - all SaaS, none have a recurring billing model.
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