Cosmic Purpose Found in Vertical B2B SaaS
Description
A screenshot of a tweet from user Roshan Patel (@roshanpateI). The tweet text reads: 'Born too late to explore the Earth. Born too early to explore the universe. Born just in time to stare into the void and build vertical B2B SaaS.' This meme humorously captures a sense of existential disillusionment prevalent in the tech industry. It plays on the popular lament of being born in the wrong era for grand adventures, but delivers a punchline that is deeply rooted in the modern software world: the seemingly mundane and hyper-specific task of creating Business-to-Business Software-as-a-Service for a niche market ('vertical'). For senior engineers, it's a witty and relatable take on trading youthful ambitions of changing the world for the reality of building enterprise software, finding a strange, resigned purpose in a very specific, unglamorous corner of the digital economy
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I used to dream of architecting systems for interstellar communication, but now I'm optimizing the JWT refresh flow for a SaaS that helps regional managers of mid-sized paper companies track quarterly envelope inventory. It's the same battle against entropy, just with more TPS reports
Some ancestors mapped new continents; we map the same CRUD to Stripe, Twilio, and AWS - and call it innovation on the pitch deck
While our ancestors navigated by the stars and our descendants will navigate between them, we're here optimizing conversion funnels for dental practice management software - and somehow convincing VCs it's a $10B TAM
The modern developer's existential crisis: we missed the age of exploration, we'll miss the space age, but we're perfectly positioned for the golden era of explaining to yet another enterprise client why their 'unique' workflow actually fits into our multi-tenant architecture with just a few custom fields and a hefty implementation fee. At least the ARR is recurring
Staring into the void long enough, and it stares back with a feature request for multi-tenant isolation
Vertical B2B SaaS is where CRUD meets RBAC; the void is realizing your MVP just evolved into a configurable ERP powered by feature flags and compliance checklists
The void? That's the gap between multi-tenant ideals and that one enterprise demanding single-tenant, SAML, SOC2, and procurement's 12-week event loop
He can explore the oceans. Oceans of data with Microsoft Kusto! Comment deleted
What is a Microsoft Kusto? Sounds like Kosto which is Finnish for revenge Comment deleted
and prounounciation of that finnish word is "your coochie" in persian(with some twist) Comment deleted
and kosto means pain(psychological) in my language Comment deleted
Were you ever invaded by the Finnish? Would explain a lot 😂 Comment deleted
nope... we were invaded by the British though 🙃 Comment deleted
Crap, that's much worse ... Comment deleted
yeah... the French and the Dutch guys helped though in the end all resistances failed before the British conspiracy and backstabbing (we have an idiom that nicely describes our situation with the British... "খাল কেটে কুমির আনা"[To bring a calamity by one’s own imprudence.]) Comment deleted
I thought you were from an arab country Comment deleted
bangladesh... (don't assume someone's arab when you see arabic names :P) Comment deleted
That's Urdu, not Arabic, right? Comment deleted
nope... arabic... (مُبَشِّر) Comment deleted
Oof, yeah. I recently attended a lecture about the world's shortest (documented) war and the political circumstances around it. Different place, same assholes. Comment deleted
Reference to Jacques Cousteau Comment deleted
into your mom mf :-/ Comment deleted
Who's that?🤷♂ Comment deleted
actually, what's that B2B SaaS ? Comment deleted
Business to Business Suffering Software as a Service Comment deleted