Atta quits SaaS to build pay-once Mac apps
Atta's answer to the SaaS apocalypse is to leave the battlefield entirely. He says SaaS is dead and he's building Mac apps now: no servers, no monthly churn, no fighting 50 clones, and people pay once and keep the app forever. It's an old business model coming back into fashion. If customers are tired of subscriptions and anyone can clone a web app, a pay-once desktop app is a bunker. Whether the zombies learn to clone Mac apps too is the next level.
SaaS is dead. I'm building Mac apps now.
no servers, no monthly churn, no fighting 50 clones.
people pay once and keep it forever.
— Atta 🐬, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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