Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I think you're looking at it backwards, other stuff as a service is the OG, and SaaS is the relatively new thing.

Food as a Service: Restaurants, Cafes, Uber eats, Door dash, and other services that rich people use where they order food to be made and delivered by a private kitchen (not an open restaurant)

Car as a Service: Taxis, Yellow Cab, Uber, Lyft, car rentals, and car leasing

Fridge as a Service: there are stores that would rent you a fridge, it's not as common, as most rental places come with fridges, but I've seen many in Houston without. I've also seen Laundry machine and Dryer rentals

[Anything] as a Service: they exist, but not common or unknown to people like you and me. For example there are dog walking services. Another one that appeared in the past decade is related to clothing where you get a box every month that contains some clothing articles, or others that would assign a personal stylist to help you shop for clothes... Etc




car leasing is a subscription payment, everything else isn't


Not sure I agree. They're services. Uber is a car as a service. You don't pay monthly, but you use it as a service.

I don't pay a subscription for Gmail or their productivity suite, but those are SaaS.


I mean saas as subscription, i don't think it's applicable otherwise. E.g. hotels are not a service as are not airplanes. Neither is uber, you buy itemized rides from individual riders, the fact that uber mediates it doesnt make it a xaas. Otherwise, every grocery store would be a xaas




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: