the place where small businesses
stop renting software
and start owning it.
saas is dead. we're building what comes next.
saas — “software as a service” — is the model where you pay monthly rent for software someone else owns, controls, and can take away.
ai didn't drive software costs to zero. it shifted the bottleneck. the true cost of software has always been maintaining it — 80% of total cost of ownership is maintenance, not the initial build. traditional saas extracts that cost from you forever, gives you no ownership, and cuts off your legal recourse when things break.
how it works
propose
submit a software concept your business needs. describe the problem, what you'd pay per month for a maintained, hosted solution you actually own.
pledge
other businesses with the same problem back the concept with monthly commitments. when the threshold is reached, a cell forms.
own
certified product cooperatives compete by shipping working MVPs — product vision, design, and code. the collective picks the best one. the winning cell designs, builds, and operates it under contract. the code is open-source. you own it.
think of it like a credit union
banks extract from you. credit unions are owned by their members.
saas vendors extract from you. destroysaas collectives are owned by their members.
same deposits. same services. radically different economics — because the profits go back to you, not shareholders.
you already understand this model. you just haven't applied it to software yet.
18
ideas submitted
$4,500
pledged / month
11
sponsors
for business owners
you're paying rent on tools you can't leave.
your crm raises prices 20%. your project management tool gets acquired and sunsets your plan. your data sits on someone else's servers and you have zero legal standing to do anything about it.
destroysaas makes you a co-owner, not a customer. you fund software collectively with other businesses who need the same thing. a vetted product cooperative designs, builds, and operates it under contract to you. the code is open-source. the data is yours. the legal entity gives you voting rights and enforceable contracts.
if your vendor disappeared tomorrow, would your business survive? with destroysaas, the answer is always yes.
for cells
own a product company without the vc. without the boss. without the bullshit.
a cell is a full-service product cooperative — product management, design, engineering, and operations under one roof. you don't just write code. you own the whole problem: what to build, how it looks, how it works, and keeping it running.
when an idea hits threshold, certified cells compete by shipping a working MVP. not a spec deck. not a slide deck. a running product. the collective picks the best one and contracts that cell for ongoing design, development, hosting, and evolution.
your MVP is your audition. if you ship great work, you win a maintenance contract that pays monthly. the treasury pays contingent on hitting your SLA. all code is open-source. if you do great work, your reputation compounds and more collectives come to you. if you walk away, the collective replaces you. no one is trapped — not the businesses, not you.
this is a product company that scales on contract revenue, without giving up ownership of your labor.
for investors
saas margins without saas fragility.
traditional saas is a rent-seeking monoculture. one vendor, millions of customers, and a single point of failure. ai is collapsing that model — building software is no longer the moat. the winners of the next decade will own the network, not the code.
destroysaas is a platform that spawns self-sustaining micro-cooperatives. each cell funds its own development, governs its own roadmap, and pays platform fees for infrastructure. the code is free. the network, legal rails, and treasury infrastructure are the value.
revenue model: cell formation fees, platform take-rate (5–10% of each cell's treasury), cell certification, and inter-cell API routing fees at scale. every cell that forms increases the network and decreases churn — because owners don't churn the way customers do.
this isn't a saas company. it's the protocol layer that replaces saas companies.