SaaS

“A software company doing ten million a year in revenue is worth more than fifty million dollars, right? If it's growing, growing well.”

“Maybe one answer could be to sort of build a personal brand where your brand is built around trying a lot of different things. Like Sam is trying out custom GPTs this week and AI avatars next week. He's actually building this quote unquote boring sass on the s…”

“Once you know the technology well enough to be able to predict the effects it will have on a given business, then it's just very clear that we're living in a time of tremendous arbitrage where tech non-enabled businesses can become quickly AI-enabled. Skip, in…”

“And I think 20, 24 will be digital businesses. So SAS content software apps. I think that range between a hundred K and ten million in revenue, I think it's going to be a huge act like a huge M and a activity. I think we'll, we'll see a lot more of that in 20,…”

“Where I think things are going is it's going to be pay per Task.”

“It'll probably get to a point where eventually it can just close the customer too, especially if it's SaaS or help a customer or try to set up phone calls to move over to your AEs.”

“Once you get enough influencers talking about your product in this category, Then you'll start to see that up and coming influencers that are trying to build within that space will also review that product for you for free without paying them. All they're doin…”

“Like everyone is using software and SaaS now, but You have to remember these people using the software, like they don't know anything. So you need to productize the extra layer on top of it.”

“Starting with SAS is is it, is the worst idea because you will fail almost a hundred percent and then you'll probably feel bad about that and never start again and go back to your job.”

“It is much harder to win SEO traffic for a SAS tool than for a directory.”

“Another reason I really like this idea and people who listen to the pod know this about me is it's a wedge that could evolve into something else. So If you build the horse publication, personal publication, Step one, and it starts taking off. Step two could ea…”

“If you're running some sort of digital product, some sort of SaaS thing this is the time of year where you can push people on some sort of nice, juicy renewal plan.”

“When you think about D to C, there's always money flowing every month. Like as long as the business exists, there's money flowing. So, so to justify a 499 dollars a month subscription within that, like flow of money is so easy to figure out as long as you solv…”

“If someone ends up building this is like a, you know, a ten million dollar a year plus SaaS business.”

“I think people are monetizing directories wrong. Like they're just putting AdSense. We saw one example of someone literally selling a book. The opportunity is actually to build software on top of these directories. So you use directories to get the traffic. Yo…”

“I wish it would have said, like, you should do usage-based tiers, because that's the future of SaaS.”

“So one of the things I've been noticing in software land at least is there's this shift from software as a service to pay per use.”

“Because SaaS is kind of imploding, and there's just a lot of opportunity to go and use platforms like Bolt, Lovable, Cursor Replit and start building audiences, marrying that software together and start building businesses.”

“I would say, like, solo dolo I think you could easily clear Five, 10 K a month, just without any outside help. definitely building apps, but even just like if you consult on the right kind of product projects surrounding like a specific SAS.”

“So I think what you can do if you're like an entrepreneur trying to do this is like, Build like one or two apps, like probably more than that, like get good at it. Like I made like 40. And then just call business owners and be like, what's the most annoying th…”

“Step, step zero, build an audience. Then figure out what something to build is, and actually how you figure out, ah, how you build something is you start teasing things with your audience, and they're gonna tell you what to build.”

“In a not very competitive market, these types of things can make a big difference. If you're in a very crowded market with, you know, very sophisticated websites, like you're in a hyper-competitive SaaS market, just optimizing your page speed insights probably…”

“Everyone's building like agents and workflows and wrappers and SaaS tools, but I feel like everyone's ignoring like businesses in their backyard. So I want to talk about what I think is like a multi-billion dollar arbitrage opportunity to build a local service…”

“For the first time ever, services are becoming software. It used to be software as a service, SaaS. But now with AI agents actually having the ability to fulfill the service. So let's say instead of hiring a social media manager, you're hiring an AI agent that…”

“By the way, there's only, like, a hundred hooks that exist. In short form videos. Especially for SaaS.”

“I think that this is a very overlooked opportunity. Everyone's trying to create a sexy sass, and I want them to kind of look in their backyard for opportunities that can get them going.”

“Because if you're able to create viral videos using Sora too, then you're going to be able to own a lot of attention. If you have a lot of attention, you'll be able to create startup ideas that sell to that attention. Consumer mobile apps, SaaS products, micro…”

“My ADK SAS mistake in 23 seconds. Like, these are things that would go viral. POV, you just got your first dollar on Stripe. Cloned a hundred million dollars SAS in four days using these three tools. It's legal. Your SAS onboarding has a fourteen-second proble…”

“I think where you're probably going to have the most success is in your smaller creators. So we're talking people with a hundred and 20,000 and followers across platforms and less.”

“Step two is you want to generate attach a generous affiliate percentage. I'm not talking about 10%, 20%. I'm talking about 30 to 50%, especially in the initial days. Give it to them lifetime. Like, you want to get these people on board.”

“If you want to use ads to scale your SaaS, you can't do it with a low ticket offer. And when I say low ticket, I basically mean anything that is below a thousand dollars per month. If your SaaS is 50 dollars a month, a hundred dollars a month, this probably wi…”

“Because this is an attention play, where you're leveraging attention, you are creating a product that is inherently viral and shareable, what's going to happen is that the amount of attention that you get for this tool is going to far outweigh the people who a…”

“I still believe that building a directory and creating a micro SAS or vertical SAS is a super solid way to go about it. And with cloud code, it's never been easier. But the agency directory combo is a potent one and I see it all the time. Some of the biggest d…”

“Like over, you're going to see over the next two to three months, like some really big winners. And you're going to start to see it work.”

“But now when you're living in a terminal, for example, and you're using MCPs to talk to LLMs you kinda, you know, the nice to have is actually the UI. The nice to have is the SaaS. The nice to have is going to this website and look pretty. Ultimately what you …”

“This is the greatest time ever to building SaaS. I mean, no other time in history has it been this cheap to be able to build SaaS, build audiences around it, get it to people who have billions of billions of dollars of spending power who want to buy your produ…”

“You're going to not just want to create a product, my friends. No, no, no, no, no. You're going to want to create media. You're going to go on ahead and, you know, create an Instagram, create a TikTok, create an X, pick one channel that you're going to focus o…”

“Don't make the, don't make a mistake of trying to build something for a huge market because that's where the venture boys are playing. This is for the people who want to build a cash flowing startup that, you know, maybe they want, it could raise venture later…”

“You can build SAS products as full skills. Now you no longer have to pay for hosting. You no longer have to pay for a domain. You no longer have to pay for storage, handle authentication. You can download Products locally, and the whole, ah, look at what I bui…”

“Shift that's happening right now that instead of basically going to a tool to automate a function, you say to yourself, okay, if this was an AI employee, how can I spin this up?”

“So if you already have built a SaaS or workflow, embed an auto research style agent so your users can press optimize, just like a big, I envision like a big button that just says optimize, and the system runs a mini research loop for them. So for example, tune…”

“This is when people say, you know, agents are the new SaaS. What do they mean by that? They mean, you know, you're selling an agent with an outcome, you know, moving from a per seat model to an outcome based model”

“There's an opportunity Especially now with Fable Five to actually go buy things for not a lot of money, kind of flip it you know, or renovate it, maybe flip it or just keep it for profit and cash flow.”

“In an AI world, we all know building products are, you know, is really easy. Building demand is just getting more and more important. So when anyone can ship a landing page or an app, You know, or build a SaaS. The bottle, the bottleneck moves to the question …”

“If people are already paying for the work, they're paying an employee, they're paying an agency, a receptionist, a coordinator, dispatcher, they, there's an opportunity to sell that service cheaper And then unload some of that work that that person is doing to…”

“SaaS sells software. Agent SaaS sells work. A normal SaaS product says, here is a tool a team could use basically. But an agent SaaS product will say, here is a job your team no longer has to do by hand.”

“I think agents are the new SaaS because software is moving from help me do the work to do the work with me.”

“Labor is a multi-trillion dollar market, right? So I think why people say agents is bigger than SaaS is because the total addressable market for agents is just way bigger. You know, it's human capital.”

“In this world, you're just a SaaS provider. You're just hosting software. So there's no token costs. And so your margins are back to being like regular, a regular software business instead of being an AI business, which I think is great.”

“I think the SaaS-pocalypse is so dumb because Hey, yeah, I'm like vibe coding this inbox app, but 99% of the world is going to want to use something that's maintained by someone else. Yes, you can one shot everything, but the I think the hard rare thing is mov…”

“I think mediocre software is dead in several years, and the reason that I think it's actually a longer timeline than most people are predicting is because of what I shared about, like, how often people are actually using this stuff.”