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by throwjjj 155 days ago
Word of advice: don’t do SaaS anymore. It’s over.
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Stripe's billions of dollars per year would suggest otherwise.

https://stripe.com/sessions/2025/scaling-vertical-saas

Stripe sells shovels though.
Not their revenue. The revenue of their saas clients. Read the article.
People will move to selfhosted for a while, find out it's more expensive to maintain, switch to SaaS and then a couple years later will switch back to selfhosted. It's an endless cycle
Nah you don’t get it.
What would gurus advise to do?