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by lolinder 693 days ago
First entry I see: Pabbly Connect [0], a subscription web service that normally runs $20 a month and currently has a lifetime subscription offer advertised. Everything is hosted in the cloud, you sign in to access the product, they're SOC2 compliant, etc.

This website has a very different definition of SaaS than I do, and it sounds like it rhymes with "subscription".

A few more examples to make sure it wasn't a one-off:

* Foxly, a URL shortener with a subscription or lifetime deal [1].

* CountVisits, web analytics. This one doesn't offer a subscription, but it's still all hosted on their servers and therefore has usage limits (which you can pay to upgrade) [2]

[0] https://www.pabbly.com/connect/

[1] https://foxlyme.com/pricing/

[2] https://countvisits.com/

2 comments

Yes, I wasn't sure how to categorize these. This is V1 of the site and I will make adjustments based on feedback. There are no Non SaaS alternatives to those products, so I included them even though they are technically SaaS with a lifetime deal.
If I were you I'd drop them outright. Better to have the directory live up to its name than to have it be more comprehensive but contain apps that are clearly SaaS.
indeed. seems like a directory of pay-once saas