• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    What makes it “working”, is that the Software part of Software as a Service, is available as a Service.

    The service doesn’t have to scale to a million users. It’s still a SaaS if it has one customer with like 4 users.

    Is this a pedantic argument? Yes.
    Are you starting a pedantic fight about the specific definition of SaaS? Also yes.

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        48 minutes ago

        Kinda.
        Ignoring the pedantic take that nearly every website is a saas.
        And the slightly less pedantic take that every interactive website is a saas

        If your website is an app that does a thing that a user wants, it’s a saas.
        Your website just does mpeg to gif transcoding? That’s a saas. Online text editor? SaaS. Online tamagotchi? SaaS.

        If it doesn’t scale to the number of users who want or need to use it, then it’s not a very good SaaS. But SaaS it is.