True. For some companies that price is not enough to move the needle. For some companies it will be. Calendly is worth 4B at this time. If I could move 1% of their customers then that's worth it for me. Executing this won't be easy by there are way more than 1% of the people who will move to save cost.
Good one. I love this approach. Work somewhere. Find which part of the big software is most valuable and you can make a business out of it and run a small business.
100% agree. That's why I'm building tools in crowded space. I'm building NeetoCal which is a calendly alternative and NeetoRecord which is a loom alternative. https://neeto.com/cal and https://neeto.com/record.
I'm not sure about them being garbage but I do believe very strongly that existing SaaS software is way way wayyyy overpriced. So there is an opportunity to build a simple, low price software that does less but just works.
Market is saturated and it's getting increasingly hard to build sustainable software. One good thing is that the price of SaaS has gone up. That creates an opening for the folks who are good at execution. I'm betting on that.