Ask HN: Any Examples of SaaS Companies Adding Products?

[SteveC114]

I always love the feedback in HN and thought of a good topic for discussion.

I am part of a startup that has been doing very well since 2007 and we are close to touching $2m in annual revenue. We are in a great position to explode next year and we are preparing now.

We will continue expanding our current product but are now starting to think about adding products for 2013/14 to maintain our growth.

Does anyone have any examples (successes and failures) of SaaS companies adding products? We see several opportunities but I would love to learn from others to compare our focus!

Thanks! Steve

[glimcat]

Salesforce? 37signals?

Expanding sideways is pretty common among successful software and business services companies.

[SteveC114]

Salesforce - I like the idea of Force.com being offered that uses the same infrastructure as the core product, as well as the companies they have acquired.

37signals - great example and I liked reading their timeline to see how/when they expanded. Jason is also very open on Inc.com about running the company. For some reason I recall reading an article where their adoption rates were a lot lower outside of their core product.

[fezzl]

UserVoice?

[SteveC114]

Hi fezzl,

Not too familiar with the UserVoice story. What product did they start with?

Thanks for the input.

[simonk]

Zoho

[dholowiski]

Shhh. Zoho is an IT Geek's best kept secret. If you tell everybody about it they might stop giving away their best stuff.