Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother by walrus01 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:47AM (#50324020)

Is it bad that taking a look at the homepage: https://www.zamzar.com/

My first thought was "imagine the astonishing amount of private documents and PII you could collect and store if you ran something like this for free as a honeypot". People just blithely uploading any document from their personal data to convert to another format.

And if I would have to guess it's less technical users who aren't going to try something like opening a document in the latest Libreoffice (or gimp, etc) and then exporting it to another format, using local software on their computer, first.

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Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother by oxedom on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:01AM (#50324460)

I know for a fact that these honeypots exist.

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Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother by sevenzero on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:50AM (#50324408)

Well this is what people do with AI. Uploading their whole life with no second thought. But surely we can trust big tech, right?

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Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother by j45 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:17AM (#50325928)

Yet some people still use them.

Why don’t you create an alternative?

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Re:Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother by walrus01 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:22PM (#50332350)

Frank answer: I'm far too lazy, it's outside of my general skill set of what I could confidently develop (or oversee hired people to build an equivalent service), and running a consumer SaaS with $10 to $30 monthly subscription/services or ad supported sounds like like a new level of personal hell for me.

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