[jerelunruh]

One option: get a part time job in an interesting industry.

I discovered this by getting a contract (few days a month) doing onsite work for a small/medium size organization. I asked lots of questions about things that I perceived as broken and found out what processes and software they hated. Then I worked on a prototype (evenings, for fun) and showed it to them. Now a year or so later that organization is my first customer for a SaaS I saw that they needed.

Also, make friends with other vendors while you're there. A company that already serves that industry can give valuable feedback and even market your app to their other clients if it integrates well with their solution.

[timjahn]

What's the SaaS?

[jerelunruh]

Real-time asset tracking (GPS) with a non-terrible user interface. I'll get a good marketing page done someday; currently it's spreading via a vendor I made friends with (see above).

[awinder]

I think he's asking which SaaS did he build

[burkaman]

Software as a Service

It basically means hosting an application that users can subscribe to.

[timjahn]

I know what a SaaS is. :) I'm asking what he built.

[frobaldo]

Software as a Service

In Pizza as a service terms: you dine out.

[pizzeys]

Surely it's the other way around, normal software is dining out, and SaaS is dining in?

[frobaldo]

Depends on the term comparison: for on premise / iaas / saas/ paas, normal software is baking it yourself.

http://www.ektron.com/assets/0/75/132/2147483682/2b35a8f4-f2...

[timjahn]

I'm aware of what a SaaS is. :)

Great analogy though!