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SaaS

SaaS is software you rent by the month instead of owning, which is how most business tools are sold.

Also called: software as a service, subscription software

SaaS stands for software as a service, and it means renting. You pay every month, the software sits on somebody else's computer, and you have it for exactly as long as you keep paying.

Most of what your business runs on is sold this way, and for plenty of it that's a fair deal, nobody should be building their own payment processing.

The word is in here because the whole argument of this course is about where that line falls: keep renting the hard, general things, and stop renting the small specific ones that only your business needs and nobody else will ever build properly.

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Is this really for you?

1 of 7 Where do you sell online?
2 of 7 Would you like software built around exactly how your business works?
3 of 7 When something in your software needs changing, how do you want that to happen?
4 of 7 Have you ever written code?
5 of 7 If something breaks, what kind of help do you need?
6 of 7 Do you pay monthly for an app where you only really use one or two of its features?
7 of 7 Building your app means using an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT on a paid monthly plan. Are you OK with that?