Privacy-first SaaS ideas
jasonleow • 4 May 2024 •
Here’s a dopey idea:
Create a privacy-first alternative for any popular SaaS you know. Anything. Everything.
More and more consumers are trusting big companies less with their data. Many SaaS have carved out a niche for themselves by just offering privacy-first as the main benefit.
Simple Analytics, Fathom Analytics and Plausible comes to mind, as privacy-first alternatives to Google Analytics.
Also:
This also appeals to business customers—maybe in the EU?—who wants to be GDPR compliant and not run afoul with other privacy laws.
So how about privacy-first alternatives of these popular SaaS?
- Analytics: Posthog, Mixpanel, ChartMogul, Baremetrics
- Advertising: Adsense, Carbon Ads
- Messaging: Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram
- Video calls: Zoom, Google Meet
- Ecommerce: Woocommerce, Shopify, Gumroad
- Personal email: Gmail, Zoho
- Transactional email: Mailgun, Postmark, Resend
- Newsletters: Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Behiiv, Substack
- Social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
- AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral
What other privacy-first product ideas are there?