[omarhaneef]

It would be useful to see this tool used for other SaaS.

Want to manage a (1) 10-50 person (2) construction firm in (3) the US, should you use Basecamp, Asana or Wrike?

You have a (1) 50-100 person (2) Tech firm should you use docusign or hello for document management?

And if you already have and are committed to Quickbooks, does it change any of the answers above?

[akudha]

How would one go about building such a product though? Comparing hardware features (say iPhone with Samsung for example) is a lot easier than software, isn't it? SaaS products can release features every week, it would be quite hard to keep up.

It would be cool if there is a JSON standard to publish features (and pricing) for SaaS apps - something like what AWS does for its products. Defining such a standard itself would be tricky, but it is worth trying. It might make it a bit easier to compare various project management apps, for example.

[jasonkimtech]

Hey omarhaneef that's great feedback.

With regards to SaaS besides project management and document management what are some categories where you find picking tools the most cumbersome?

[omarhaneef]

I have never met any SaaS where it wasn't cumbersome to figure out the competitors, the differences and the pricing.

I think the greatest area that a small company could use help in is learning which tools are out there i.e. answering this very question. For instance, one firm I know had no idea how useful bill.com was and it saved them 10s of manhours per week but began using it years after it was offered.

The other area is workflow: you use software X and software Y in this way, but did you know most other companies link them up with software Z in the middle and it works much better, so long as you check the box that reminds you to tag the invoices (or whatever).

[jasonkimtech]

>The other area is workflow: you use software X and software Y in this way, but did you know most other companies link them up with software Z in the middle and it works much better, so long as you check the box that reminds you to tag the invoices (or whatever).

I think adding up all the time savings for certain workflows or integrations across different sets of products would be immensely useful. You're totally right there's no easy way to see that currently anywhere.

[omarhaneef]

It would be valuable just to tell people what others are using. The most popular configurations would lead to suggestions based on usage in the field.

This is sort of the reason people check out state of Javascript and learn that "everyone else" is gravitating towards Vue, or that Svelte is gaining in popularity, or that VS code is everyone's preferred editor.

[jcims]

Not the GP and have been out of the game a bit but CRM products were a nightmare the few times I had to select one. Security products are tricky as well.