Comment by mtrovo
2 months ago
"I'm afraid I cannot deploy your application, Dave"
Jokes aside one area this could be really worth money is predicting cycles of traffic and saving with ramp up and ramp down of server instances. It's the kind of work that if you're doing it out of your time the company would never give you greenlight it but if you pack it as a shelf product they would totally buy it.
Yep. I worked on a SaaS for one particular retail industry, and I would bet you anything they see more traffic when biweekly paydays and the calendar line up in certain ways. Either a couple days before (window shopping) or a few days after, once other bills are paid.
That extra half paycheck when a month has 5 Mondays or Fridays in it...