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by dgreensp 3039 days ago
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?
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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.
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.”