Spend more time with Nature (easier said than done)

It is a fable, that certain kind of work changes the world for better. The reality is changing the world is a slow process, it takes a sequence of events which eventually makes things better.

You do not have to work for a large famous company to start making things better. I absolutely believe that if you want to make a big impact in the world, you need to start small - with something closer and around you.

Consider a few things ... (use your imagination) At social level, start small, if you want to make a change to world: 1. Help a Child

2. Teach someone something, may be online.

At personal level:

1. Work on a hobby project, have your own vision for the world.

2. Learn something you would really like to do.

To take things off your current negativity, take a break, may be a vacation, do something you enjoy, Hiking, Music, Books ..whatever is your thing.

Change the Subject to Show HN , might get more attention. Good Luck!

Done. Thanks for the tip.

Do not judge your friend, purely based on the "Number of Commits"

Business needs many kind of people.

People who do, people who think, people who get things done.

You mentioned, he is more a Sales and Marketing person - Do you think he is going to be an asset there? Is he the lateral thinker - who is going to turn your story around?

A Business is a combination of many things:

- Market Fitment

- Product Concept & Market Fitment

- Resources (Money, Time)

- Business Development

- Operations

- People

- Ideas

- Hardwork

- Perseverance

- Service & Support

- and 100s of other paramemters

Think, if he is going to be an asset somewhere, where you are not good at (Trust me, no one is good at everything).

Ofcourse, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let even the best people go, then - do be prepared for the consequences.

Biggest problem in this is, one size does not fit all.

It is hard to compile a stack - which would be useful for most companies.

Yes, there have been attempts made - for Example, Open Stack. But then I feel, there is always an element of specific technology based on the needs of the product being built.

It probably depends on the type of product.

Few Options: 1. Friends, Family, Colleagues etc. Although, I do not prefer this option, as friends and known colleagues tend to be sugar coat their feedback, and that is not something you want.

2. One of them right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

3. If you can showcase your product on KickStarter or other crowd funding - brilliant, as it also kind of proves people will be willing to pay for your product in future.

4. Meetup Groups etc, walk into these groups, if you find people who would fall into your target profile. Do not hesitate to politely ask, if they would like to have a look.

5. If you have a target list, offer them free access, with a concise email or some other medium.

tl;dr: Anywhere you can see right people, offer.

I’m in the same position, trying to extend beyond friends and family for beta users to get a better understanding of whether or not I’m building the right things.

It’s probably worth adding https://betalist.com to this list as well.

Thank you so much. :)

You are right, accountability is one valid point, and large companies typically are used to having people on speed dial, when things break.

But then - aren't there questions about - how really agile they really are?

Large operations with a lot of custom software, and license based models and Time & Material based customization - it is always very hard to get things moving faster.

Also, I feel Large Operations have to hire a lot of people - just to manage what vendors are deploying. Very large operational costs.

You bring a valid point.

But then, What stops SaaS providers from Hosting in their own environment?

With Modern day Containerization technologies and orchestration layers, I believe it is not as difficult as it used to be - to be infra agnostic. A lot of large Enterprises are now - investing in their private cloud (AWS, Azure etc.)

IMHO, it is much beyond the Hosting part (which is mostly applicable during the installation stages).

There are questions about, - Accountability in case of failures. - Continuous Support and Customizations - Is there a Dedicated Support team etc. - more ...

> But then, What stops SaaS providers from Hosting in their own environment?

You mean why SaaS providers are reluctant to provide their stack on-premise?

If your main tech is providing a web daemon that "just works" it is simpler (cheaper) to provide (install, update, configure) it on your (the SaaS-company's) infrastructure, as otherwise you have to support integrating your SaaS into the security domain of your customer which is very non-trivial (that's why you often see Team-Support and certain variations of authorization and authentication in the higher-priced plans).

I understand that many customers would like that but I also understand that it is harder (more expensive) to support for SaaS companies. I wonder how long GitLab will support their dual-approach using .com and the self-hosted, on-premise variant.

Yes, a lot of people think SaaS = Deployed on Cloud.

But a significant part of sustainable deployment is the Service part, in Software as a Service

I understand, it is much harder for many SaaS companies to provide that 1:1 attention. Specially when the company would like to focus on the Product.

But there are ways to offsetting it, such as System Integrator, Localized Partners etc.

Large enterprise companies have been traditionally doing the same thing, Seibel for example grew like that. SAP, Oracle, is thriving on it.

But my question was also from the companies purchasing the service? What stops them from adopting SaaS in their environment?

Brilliant: Brilliantly Imagined, and Brilliantly captured.

If this is true, this is a brilliant comment!