SAAS for small and medium online business start ups
SAAS aka Software as a service, is ideal for small and medium online business start ups as it is offers entrepreneurs to come up with a big thing at a monthly rental. Guess you are willing to start up a Questions and Answers community with equelant features of wikianswers, yahoo answers … etc for a selected community. If you hire a developers and tried developing it, it will be higher your start up cost and even ended up in failure as it requires high level of contribution to develop it even using free or premium components.
As one of SaaS for questions and answers websites, Answerbase.com following features can be obtained by a entrepreneurs if they selected a Software as a service
- Lower startup costs
- No platform installation or maintenance
- Significantly shorter deployment time
- Painless upgrades and optimizations
- Frees the time of you and your IT staff
Actually there are free and open source components and scripts for internet start ups, but the thing is there are many hurdles to jump over for person handle his own installation online and maintain it. Hacking and spamming is the no one battle for a novice internet web site owner and SEO is the second war! But when you are going for a hosted SaaS, they will protect your installation from hackers and their fast servers will provide a plus mark on your SEO credibility.
Following examples are SaaS for internet start ups
Create your own social network – ning.com, socialgo.com
Create your own questions and answers web – answerbase.com, Qhub.com, shapado.com (it is free but ad supported)
Create your own dating site – datingfactory.com (free and on commission basis)
Creating an online store – vendder.com (free option available)
