[TrapLord_Rhodo]

I agree with the article in faith, but i think they've gotten the cause wrong.

The problem is, scaling was ALWAYS the hard part. at a certain level, you don't have to worry about sharding and replicating databases, moving over to NoSQL, async race conditions, etc. etc. Why bet the house on one business idea, when you can have 10 "Micro-SaaS's" that are all bootstrapped but might make 10-20k in MRR.

In the day and age where the average business person has like 20-30 subscriptions for random tools, emails, websites, marketing, email lists, automations, SaaS products, freelancers, etc. it very much lends itself to the micro model.

The 'VC' business model is starting to break down. Just by looking around youtube and Indie Hackers, most of the successful businesses now adays are bootstrapped where the founder has some kind of community where they blog, youtube, have a patreon, X, etc.. They become the brand and they have no use for VC's. As soon as they launch a new app idea, they have 200K people on twitter, 150k people on youtube that will atleast give the app a look.

[wslh]

I agree that today's focus is more on integration than relying on a single "corporate" system. However, I believe a major issue with micro-SaaS in general is security. While even FAANG companies face security challenges, relying on many smaller SaaS providers introduce weak points into your system, and security is a challenging factor for small company budgets.

[benoau]

This isn't exclusively or particularly solved by VC-funded or giant tech companies - Dropbox once deployed a bad build that accepted any password, Apple accidentally had a blank root password, I'm sure there are many more embarrassing tales like this.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/temporarily-fix-macos-high-...

[wslh]

Not saying that big companies don't have security issues. Expressing it differently: having multiple heterogeneous dependencies increases the effectiveness of supply chain attacks.

[esseph]

Now imagine you have 16 national industries that you've defined as basically "needing the best security reasonable", and most of those industries only deal with security as much as their insurance companies make them.

It's a nightmare out there.

[TrapLord_Rhodo]

I don't really understand this comment.

You are the exact people that i am trying to avoid with this model. I'm not trying to make big deals with big companies who can be impacted by security. The Micro-SaaS model requires that when i get a client asking me those kind of questions, i run from them and tell them my tools probably not for you. Any app that requires sensitive data transfering shouldn't be done on the micro-saas model.

Micro-Saas requires small, simple tools that may be low-hanging fruit. Sometimes they aren't micro-Saas's, but just random tools that make money for you by creating a glorified Open AI wrapper and a bunch of integrations. Honestly, alot of the tools I see that make money for people are made on Make or replit. No code even required but definitly not going after the "we need sensitive info or PII" market.

All payments just go through their respective provider so not really a risk there too.