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David Heinemeier Hansson

What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about SaaS

@dhh · 154 positions · 10 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. Our readingOld versions are kept until the end of the internet: Basecamp's 2004 version, unsold since 2010, still makes millions in profit.

    Their wordsSo, for Basecamp, we kept those old versions. The version we launched in 2004, we stopped selling in 2010. 16 years ago. We still have customers on it. As an individual business, it's still making millions of dollars.

    ↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 4th of 15 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingSoftware should be allowed to be finished, the way a knife or an album is, and the customer who bought the old version should get to keep it.

    Their wordsAnd I actually wish we had more of a capacity in software to accept finished products. This is one of my great envies of people who make physical products. By the time you ship, I don't know, a knife, it's done.

    ↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 5th of 15 in this recording

    Interesting