Axes / Business Model

• SaaS

  Recurring-revenue hosted software.

  • Horizontal SaaS
  • Vertical SaaS
  • Enterprise SaaS
  • SMB SaaS
  • Micro-SaaS
  • Vertical AI SaaS

• Micro-SaaS

  Deliberately small, focused SaaS — solo/indie, narrow niche, low overhead.

  • Feature-as-a-Product
  • Workflow Glue Tool
  • Chrome Extension SaaS
  • API Wrapper Micro-SaaS

• Marketplace

  • Two-Sided Marketplace
  • Multi-Sided Marketplace
  • Vertical Marketplace
  • Labor Marketplace
  • Rental / Access Marketplace
  • B2B Marketplace

• D2C / E-commerce

  • Subscription Box
  • Dropshipping
  • Private Label Brand
  • Print-on-Demand
  • DTC-to-Retail Hybrid

• Creator Economy / Content Creator Business

  • Newsletter Business
  • YouTube / Video Creator
  • Course Creator / Cohort-based Course
  • Personal Brand → Info Product
  • Paid Community
  • Ghostwriting / Personal Brand Agency
  • Faceless Content Business

• Agency / Productized Service

  • Traditional Agency
  • Productized Service
  • Consulting-to-SaaS

• Platform / Ecosystem

  Enables third parties to build on top.

• Hardware Startup

  • IoT / Connected Hardware
  • Hardware + Subscription
  • Deep Hardware / Robotics

• API-as-a-Service / Infrastructure

  Developer-facing, usage-billed infrastructure.

• Open Source / COSS

  Free core, paid enterprise layer.

• Franchise / Licensing Business