Hacker News with Generative AI: SaaS

Ask HN: Pros and cons of offering a self-hosted version of your SaaS? (ycombinator.com)
I'm working on a SaaS product that simplifies credential collection for businesses. I'm debating whether to offer a self-hosted version alongside our cloud offering.
SaaS, Self-Hosting, Business, Cloud Computing
13 points by DavyCreddy 2 days ago | 4 comments
Multi-tenant SaaS data modeling (2024) (flightcontrol.dev)
TLDR: if you’re considering multi-tenant data, which all SaaS builders must, you should build “teams” functionality from day one. This guide explains how (and why).
SaaS, Data Modeling, Software Development
3 points by tosh 6 days ago | 0 comments
After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain (albertofortin.com)
A few months ago I needed to build a new infrastructure for my SaaS, as the current PHP+MySQL combo was not fit for purpose anymore.
SaaS, Programming, Software Development
362 points by a7fort 7 days ago | 221 comments
How the economics of multitenancy work (blacksmith.sh)
In the early days of Blacksmith, back when we were just a scrappy YC startup building a serverless cloud platform for CI workloads, we ran simulations to model our margins.
Economics, Cloud Computing, Startups, SaaS, Serverless
186 points by tsaifu 9 days ago | 46 comments
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? (ycombinator.com)
I am building a B2C AI SaaS with $50/month price. How would you go about getting with first 100 users and then the next 500 users.
Startups, User Acquisition, SaaS, Marketing, AI
573 points by amanchanda 10 days ago | 354 comments
Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups (lumoar.com)
Get audit-ready faster. Lumoar provides the essential tools your startup needs to organize SOC 2 compliance today, paving the way for seamless automation tomorrow.
Security, SaaS, Startups, Compliance, Automation
91 points by asdxrfx 11 days ago | 32 comments
Show HN: Built QR-code SaaS with 30% recurring commission-open to early partners (qrcodeveloper.com)
Software, SaaS, Marketing, Business, Startups
5 points by 0xgautam 14 days ago | 0 comments
Sendowl raised my monthly fee from $39 to >$200, more than 100% of my margin (mamot.fr)
Pricing, SaaS, Complaints
3 points by dredmorbius 14 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: We Built a Dashboard for Merchants to Track and Optimize Payment Fees (hypersense.io)
E-commerce, Payment Processing, Business Analytics, SaaS
15 points by tarunpitta 14 days ago | 1 comments
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)
When I played around with the technology that would eventually become OnlineOrNot back in 2021, a quick search showed me that there were 200 listed alternatives to the tool I wanted to replace. I thought most of them sucked.
SaaS, Business, Competition, Startups
268 points by mtlynch 17 days ago | 90 comments
Show HN (YC S25): Well – MCP AI-Based Collection of Invoices (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Lago:an AI-agent powered Chrome extension that becomes every founder’s best friend when accounting season hits. Well automates supplier invoice collection and pipes the data directly into your accounting tools, ERP, or dashboards — with zero effort.
AI, Accounting, Chrome Extensions, SaaS, Startups
8 points by maxchampoux 21 days ago | 6 comments
I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors (habr.com)
Hi, my name is Ilia. I founded Perfect Wiki — a SaaS product for creating internal company knowledge bases that works directly within Microsoft Teams. We created a simple and convenient tool for storing, editing, and sharing knowledge within companies. It all started with the idea to resolve one specific pain point: the built-in Wiki in Microsoft Teams offered was inconvenient, and there was no worthy alternatives with full integration to the platform.
Software, Startups, SaaS, Microsoft Teams, Knowledge Management
721 points by sochix 23 days ago | 402 comments
Easily turn any gRPC service into an MCP server (redpanda.com)
Modern SaaS companies spend a lot of time designing, building, and maintaining APIs across SDKs, CLI tools, and now, LLM integrations. With the rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI-native interfaces like Claude or Cursor are becoming real API consumers.
gRPC, MCP, API, AI, SaaS
10 points by birdayz 24 days ago | 1 comments
JPMC: An open letter to third-party suppliers (jpmorgan.com)
The modern ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) delivery model is quietly enabling cyber attackers and – as its adoption grows – is creating a substantial vulnerability that is weakening the global economic system.
Cybersecurity, Finance, SaaS, Supply Chain
36 points by kossae 26 days ago | 2 comments
An open letter to third-party suppliers (jpmorgan.com)
The modern ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) delivery model is quietly enabling cyber attackers and – as its adoption grows – is creating a substantial vulnerability that is weakening the global economic system.
Cybersecurity, Business, SaaS
10 points by cebert 27 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Pomo – Manage your Stripe promo codes without code (usecopi.com)
Stripe, Promo Codes, Business Tools, SaaS
5 points by yelston 28 days ago | 6 comments
Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation (yahoo.com)
Funding, Startups, Valuation, SaaS
342 points by baristaGeek 31 days ago | 342 comments
Is SaaS a good business model for drug‑discovery companies? (liorz.github.io)
In 2024 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper for their groundbreaking advances in computational protein design and protein‑structure prediction. Their achievements—most famously the AlphaFold2 model—have sparked a wave of enthusiasm for applying “foundation models” to biology.
SaaS, Drug Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Protein Design
7 points by Protostome 31 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Too Many Business Ideas? stop choosing, launch all of them, FAST&FREE (starterpilot.com)
Turn Your Idea Into a Business 10x Faster.
Startup Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Business, Web Development, SaaS
8 points by AzizBelAbed 35 days ago | 13 comments
Earthly Shutting Down Earthfiles (earthly.dev)
In the next three months, we will be phasing out our Earthly Satellite commercial services, including the Earthly Cloud Satellites, Self-Hosted Satellites, and BYOC Satellites, together with their respective free tiers. We are also phasing out Earthly Cloud Secrets and Logs.
Cloud Computing, SaaS, Shutdowns, Software
11 points by brandonschurman 37 days ago | 0 comments
Two Years of Rust (borretti.me)
I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write about it.
Rust, Programming Languages, Software Development, SaaS, Backend Development
88 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago | 67 comments
Domain Sniped on Launch Day (kill-saas.com)
I created repository for my project for launching open source SaaS alternatives KillSaaS and started developing the project, pushing code changes, etc. After investing some development time (primarily by vibe coding with Windsurf), it was time to launch the project.
Open Source, SaaS, Entrepreneurship
17 points by skilldeliver 44 days ago | 45 comments
Solo-built SaaS for automating Meta/Google ads (ycombinator.com)
SaaS, Marketing, Automation, Google Ads, Meta Ads
5 points by efeberkec 47 days ago | 5 comments
SaaS Is Broken: Why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is the Future (thenewstack.io)
SaaS, Cloud Computing
3 points by mpweiher 50 days ago | 0 comments
Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay" (getlago.substack.com)
Paying for a SaaS subscription you don’t use sucks. Sure, I don’t use that shameful cupboard with the ice cream maker, sous-vide device and electric ham-cutter either, but at least those things don’t charge me again!
SaaS, Business Models, Subscription Services, Software
84 points by AnhTho_FR 52 days ago | 31 comments
Launch HN: Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Augento (https://augento.ai/). We’re building Deepseek R1-like fine-tuning as a service. You connect your agent, tell us when it’s right or wrong, and we deliver an LLM optimized for that agent.
Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Startups, AI, SaaS
101 points by lmeierhoefer 53 days ago | 60 comments
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? (doublepulsar.com)
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open. The moment where this is tested at Oracle has arrived, as they have a serious cybersecurity incident playing out in a service they manage for customers.
Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Oracle, SaaS
638 points by 2bluesc 53 days ago | 127 comments
Show HN: One-Click GA/GTM Tracking Plan Generator for SaaS Teams (jtracking.ai)
AI-powered JTracking generates expert event tracking plans for Google Analytics (GA) and enables deployment to Google Tag Manager (GTM) in just one click!
Software, Analytics, Marketing, SaaS, Tools
10 points by billyellow 56 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign (sgnly.com)
Show HN, SaaS, Electronic Signatures, Document Management
76 points by esaidm 57 days ago | 103 comments
It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit (world.hey.com)
We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else.
Cloud Computing, Costs, Business, Software, SaaS
12 points by taubek 57 days ago | 1 comments