Ask HN: Desktop or SaaS for a low-maintenance product?
I've read what I could find about this, including patio11's excellent blog post. A SaaS product makes licensing and version/upgrade issues irrelevant. However, you can offer a better desktop experience for many focused tools. And you can sell a desktop product with a simple download website and set up a bug tracker, which you have to run for the SaaS product too
As a source of passive income, I'm attracted to selling desktop software (standalone or browser extension) because I don't want to have to worry about uptime/my provider's uptime and hosting costs, I'd rather be running on the customer's hardware. Am I thinking about this the right way? Everything I read says desktop software is dead, but people seem happy to pay for it still.
As a source of passive income, I'm attracted to selling desktop software (standalone or browser extension) because I don't want to have to worry about uptime/my provider's uptime and hosting costs, I'd rather be running on the customer's hardware. Am I thinking about this the right way? Everything I read says desktop software is dead, but people seem happy to pay for it still.