[HN Gopher] Show HN: Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC
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Show HN: Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC
Hi HN I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet
products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used
as alternatives to BigTech/VC-funded startups. E.g. you can use
Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding,
600+ employees) or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of
Google Analytics. I added a link to a form where you can send me
suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site! Thanks,
Rauno
Author : raunometsa
Score : 104 points
Date : 2022-08-07 14:19 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (microfounder.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (microfounder.com)
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| spaceman_2020 wrote:
| Appreciate the site, but I don't see the point of including their
| revenue. On the contrary, lower revenue would make me want to
| choose the higher revenue option - being able to make money is a
| sign of competence after all.
|
| Team size and age of the startup are better metrics imo.
| shreyshnaccount wrote:
| no, it's a sign on product market fit at best and being good at
| marketing at worst.
| [deleted]
| cercatrova wrote:
| See also the IndieHackers list of products sorted by revenue:
| https://www.indiehackers.com/products?sorting=highest-revenu...
| jwithington wrote:
| Why are there so few competitors to Zendesk I wonder?
| PainfullyNormal wrote:
| There are more. It's not a complete list. Heck, one Zendesk
| alternative was created because of a comment here on HN.
|
| https://freshdesk.com/general/the-freshdesk-story-blog/
| asim wrote:
| Micro Services - https://m3o.com
| adamckay wrote:
| I don't think microservices are relevant here. This is about
| "micro companies" -- organisations with a very small team and
| (typically) bootstrapped by their founders rather than large
| organisations with VC funding.
| intelVISA wrote:
| "Get MicroFounder OS to see the full list
|
| A developer's operating system to becoming a microfounder"
|
| Vexing parse
| endisneigh wrote:
| What's the rationale to use stuff by a smaller organization?
| kirubakaran wrote:
| People love underdogs. Plus smaller orgs are typically more
| responsive to your needs. They are less likely to kill your
| account with impunity.
| iasay wrote:
| I never got this.
|
| I only ever want stuff I can limp along standalone with until
| we find something to replace it with. I got seriously burned by
| a small SaaS help desk app about 15 years ago. Turns out they
| had three customers, no investors and were burning $20k a month
| on operational expenditure
| PaywallBuster wrote:
| The alternatives may be too small
|
| Who's gonna pick (gamble on) a SaaS that's doing < 500$??
| djbusby wrote:
| That's exactly the kind of thing an early adopter would choose
| - provided the benefit-set of the product made sense.
|
| IMO this list should focus on the differentiator rather than
| team-size or MRR.
| PaywallBuster wrote:
| I'd be happy to push a "micro" SaaS doing 100k a month built
| by a small team as an alternative to BigTech/VC for projects
| I may be involved with, not so much a 500$ month PoC
| notlukesky wrote:
| This would be a list by many buyers, especially in the
| enterprise, of companies to avoid. If you want to help the indie
| startup it is probably better to remove their revenue numbers.
| Most buyers are concerned if the product they invested in will be
| around in a couple of years.
| alberth wrote:
| It appears these business owners speak publicly about their
| revenues.
|
| So they clearly want people to know.
|
| (But totally agree on your point)
| iamandras wrote:
| Good site and this is a good page to see alternatives. How many
| new startups do you add to your site monthly?
| open-source-ux wrote:
| Nice page! A small suggestion: use section or category names.
|
| For example, instead of 'Buffer', the category or section could
| be called 'Social media tools'. Same for the other sections e.g.
| 'Analytics', 'Cold email tools', and so on.
|
| Also, Zendesk and Freshdesk are both in the same category of help
| desk software but are listed separated on the page.
| Pandabob wrote:
| Thank's for this! I've been building a list of bootstrappers to
| follow on Twitter and added a bunch of these folks to said list
| [0].
|
| [0]: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1553077166270709760
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