A year back, while I was trying to determine performance for Visa List as it ended up being a huge material website with more than 100 K pages. As information is altering really often, it’s extremely tough to keep doing this manually. I searched on google and found that all the options are simply uptime tracking and absolutely nothing and none really determine performance. I decided to develop one for myself. It turns out site performance tracking is not so simple after all and with the pandemic, I had really little motivation let alone travel anywhere. It took me 3 months to do research and plan the architecture to the last information.
I took a look at a few of the B2C bootstrappers offering a lifetime offer and getting success. That’s possible due to the fact that they do not have a big recurring cost with each customer, but in B2B SaaS, you have a recurring cost with each client.
However I believed let me include and see how it goes. So included a life time handle for $199 At that time I published it on Hacker News [2] and it made it to the front page and all the lifetime offers were over in 12 hours. I added $299 which got over during the week. So far I made over $9000 and got more than 25 clients.
Although it may not pay in the long run, I got the cashflow and customers in less time and it got rid of the pressure to chase clients. Now I can focus on the item.
One of the biggest obstacles of a SaaS startup is to obtain the first 50 clients. I have actually seen lots of startups achieve this over 6 to 12 months, some even a few years. With this initial organisation model, I have cashflow for a year which is the finest thing that can occur to a B2B SaaS. Life time offers can be a powerful method to get preliminary customers specifically when you are getting started.
[1] https://simpleops.io/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880071
