This is not Perl specific, but in our new era of this Perl economy everyone should be thinking about side-hustles and income streams. Perl is perfect for creating SaaS and other services because for efficient practitioners it presents the most efficient way to prototype a lot of things via the web.

For example, shared hosting is dirt cheap and supports cgi-bin; VMs on the cloud are also dirt cheap and you probably don't need more than a $5 instance to POC something that will be good enough to test interest. Knowing more about pricing models is part of that. This is an interesting article about SaaS pricing models, and know more about that is certainly part of creating paid services. Enjoy.

https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/data-modeling-saas-entitlements-and-pricing

* sorry the code examples in here are Python, but I think for this purpose we can look past that

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