🚧 SaaS is Being Dismantled

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In this issue...

• 📰 Top 5 News Stories

• 🔓 Top 4 Flippa Deals Unlocked

• 🛠️ Top 3 Tools & Solutions

• 📣 Sponsor This Newsletter

As I develop agentic workflows for marketing agencies to future-proof their offerings, it’s becoming clear that SaaS is being disintermediated.

Rather than relying on tools like Cuppa (which I use and is great), businesses can now have custom AI-driven workflows built for them. In fact, this is exactly what Cuppa itself is now offering with its new done-for-you option, shifting from pure SaaS to a service-layer model.

Cuppa still uses its dashboard for the front end and output, but the reality is that it’s now easier than ever to build your own interface or integrate these workflows directly into existing solutions.

Greg Isenberg recently captured this shift in a LinkedIn post, explaining how AI agents are disrupting SaaS:

Just as AI agents will soon dominate blockchain trading (I’ve officially retired from memecoins for life), they’ll also take over marketing, sales, and most other business functions—seamlessly embedded into custom workflows.

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📰 Top 5 News Stories

💬 Microsoft launches Sales Chat agent (I’m still sad they’re killing Skype) - Link

📰 Forbes isn’t the only content farm making a parasite SEO comeback - Link

🔗 Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian bids on TikTok to bring it on chain - Link

👤 HeyGen just dropped UGC AI avatar, influencers no longer required - Link

🤖 Opera releases Browser Operator, agents are the future of browsing - Link

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🔌 Plugin: WordPress plugin business launched in 2017, generating $110K annual revenue with a 77% profit margin. Offers 30+ plugins with 800 daily downloads and a large email database (8K-10K opt-ins, 4K-5K customers). Strong U.S./Europe customer base. Growth potential in SaaS, WP themes, and maintenance services. Potential for WP or SaaS product owners. It’s on a DR80s domain which has 300/m search traffic according to Ahrefs. Averaging $7K/m, $450K asking price puts this at over 5x annual profit - Listing URL

▶️ YouTube: Channel in the tech & heavy machinery niche with 87K+ subscribers and 66M+ lifetime views. Generates $11K monthly via AdSense, with a high U.S.-based audience (39%). Posts 15 videos/month, content team available. $259K asking price puts this at a 2x annual profit multiple - Listing URL

🌐 Website: Established in 2006 this electronics website has 150K+ registered users and 85K newsletter subscribers, primarily in Italy. DR40s domain bringing in over 3K/m search traffic according to Ahrefs. Subscription-based model with technical articles, emagazines, and online courses. Revenue from advertising partnerships and premium memberships. Making €8K/m profit, with a $260K asking price - Listing URL

🏅 Service: Digital education platform for U.S. Army NCOs, offering leadership training through digital product sales, subscriptions, and advertising. Strong niche with limited competition. DR10s domain but bringing in over 4K/m search traffic according to Ahrefs. Engaged audience: 50K+ Facebook members, 200K+ page followers, and 20K+ email subscribers. High 75-85% profit margins due to automation. Making $4600/m profit, $173K asking price - Listing URL

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That’s it for this week, until next time, buy my product and catch me in the community!

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Richard (@richardpatey)

Disclaimer: Nothing in this email is financial advice and I am not a professional investment adviser. I send weekly updates on digital asset news and what I'm doing personally - consider it informational and for entertainment purposes only. There are native ad sponsorships from the beehiiv ad network (such as Pacaso in today’s issue) and ones I source independently via Passionfroot (such as Cloudica & Innovacious in today’s issue). Plus I often add affiliate links to software I use and website marketplace listings such as Flippa who also pay me to feature listings.