SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. This is exactly backward.

Technical Review 194

Technical Review Artificial Intelligence AI Marketplace as a Service 194

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Facebook and Google provide an easy to use, high precision advertising engine that lets you target any cohort of people in the world. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.

Outsourcing Services 224

Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. billion to $20.7

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income once they are employed and making over $50,000 a year.

Acquisition 174

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 174

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. “These are just some of the questions you need to consider when evaluating a payment service solution as these are the same questions your customers will surely ask you,” Levi says.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Additionally, because digital products exist as either a digital asset or piece of software, they can easily be reproduced and repeatedly sold without manufacturers. Are you an artist, author, software engineer, or maybe just a hobbyist in your field? economy and the output in new software solutions.

Marketplace as a Service 97

Marketplace as a Service Software Engineering Software Development 97

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246