His Productized Service Hit $100k Revenue — He'll Never Build One Again
martyamark · x · 2026-09-07
The author recounts his first business, a productized service that generated $100k in revenue but was punishing to scale: every customer slowed him down and forced him to drop everything to deliver.
He has since launched a traditional SaaS product and finds it far easier — improvements ship to all users at once, without per-client delivery overhead. His verdict: never building a productized service again.
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