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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
342 points by baristaGeek 66 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.
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.
11 points by brandonschurman 72 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.
88 points by todsacerdoti 73 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.
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!
101 points by lmeierhoefer 88 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.