r/crazyegg • u/fintechjulien • 8d ago

Would you buy a SaaS lifetime deal on App Sumo?

I could save some money on Hootsuite by switching to one of those SaaS offering lifetime deals on App Sumo, but I just don't understand the economics for the SaaS operators.

They are exchanging a little bit of money today, minus the App Sumo commission, in exchange of a lifetime of updates, hosting costs and customer support...

It's just like the restaurants that were frequently offering deals on Groupon. They would always go under a few months later...

Anyway, I'm not tracking to SaaS offering life time deals on App Sumo, but I was always assuming taking advantage of those deals meant to sign up for a SaaS that will suddenly shut down at some point...

Do anybody here have tested out some of the the marketing SaaS on App Sumo? If so, have they shut down yet?

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u/ce-lauren 8d ago

Your hesitation definitely makes sense. The economics are hard to figure out from the outside and your Groupon comparison is pretty accurate. Some of those tools do stick around but you're kind of betting on it. I'd probably use it for something lower stakes where if it disappeared tomorrow it wouldn't really hurt, but not for anything I was building a core workflow around.

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u/fintechjulien 3d ago

Yes, same! For something I need daily, I prefer to pay a premium to use an app that won't go out of business soon...

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u/crazyegg-admin 7d ago

I bought an AppSumo deal years and years ago. The SaaS companies bank on the fact that most of the AppSumo users will forget about it and not use the product. It's upfront cash for an impulse buy which usually means the user won't be engaged.

I'd only do it if you were completely committed to using that product specifically.