SaaS is DEAD. We Built the Replacement. 💀
## Transitioning from Traditional SaaS to Burn as a Service
The Datamine Network has introduced a novel paradigm to replace centralized Software as a Service (SaaS) models: Burn as a Service (BaaS). Traditionally, SaaS applications rely on recurring monthly credit card subscriptions, introducing central points of failure, administrative overhead, and reliance on corporate intermediaries. Datamine’s BaaS model leverages public, on-chain proof-of-burn mechanics to pay for real-world hosting and digital services, starting with a powerful community archiving and SEO-indexing tool.
### Archiving the Unsearchable Web
Web3 communities regularly generate years of highly valuable technical roadmaps and community updates within closed ecosystems like Discord channels and Twitter/X timelines. Because these platforms are largely walled gardens, search engines cannot index this historical context, and AI agents are blocked from scraping the data to train their models.
To solve this, Datamine developed a decentralized SEO portal (community.datamine.network) that utilizes a specialized Discord bot. By inviting the bot, communities can automatically extract, clean, and format historical chat updates from designated channels. The tool goes beyond basic imports by using the Twitter API to enrich external Twitter links directly into comprehensive, searchable narratives. For example, Datamine successfully converted its own six-year history, comprising 700 tweets and 1,145 pages of Discord updates, into a performant, search-optimized web interface.
### Decentralized Infrastructure and Token Utility
The technical foundation of this archiving portal relies on high-speed, scalable technologies, including Cloudflare services and a Cloudflare D1 database. The hosting cost structure of the tool is directly pegged to the actual infrastructure costs incurred by a community's web traffic.
Instead of paying recurring credit card fees, communities participate in the network by burning tokens. For instance, a basic server hosting fee of five dollars per month equates to a one-time burn of 300 dollars to secure five full years of SEO-optimized storage and hosting. This creates a flexible, transparent, and direct utility loop for DAM, FLUX, ArbiFLUX, and LOCK holders. The burn transactions are completely public and verifiable on the blockchain, shifting the cost of Web3 community management from centralized subscriptions to decentralized tokenomic participation.
🎥 Video Transcript
Hey guys, um if you really think about SAS uh software as a service, everything is provided and powered by credit cards, right? So you have monthly subscriptions that are recurring and uh everything is credit cards because it's credit cards. It's centralized and you know you have literally entire companies operating around uh providing SAS. But what I think we can do is we can completely change this with uh data mine and what we could do is we can offer a new type of service which is called burn as a service and the idea is by burning and participating in the network everything is public right you know exactly who burned exactly how much and what we could do is we could tie this into services normally offered by SAS and I'll explain exactly what I mean. So, DM my network, we're a community and uh we have 6 years of content on the internet, right? And I wanted to show you guys, look, if I go to Data Mine Network for the first time and I'm not logged in on Twitter, this is what I see. Uh data mine network hasn't posted. What do you mean? You know, we we have 700 tweets, uh 6 years of updates, and this is what people see. And you know, you get zero SEO from this. all the content that you've been posting for six years uh you know it's gone so uh amazing right uh so this is what you're noticing here is a problem right the problem affecting all the communities I think in the world if you're using Twitter and you've been posting none of it is searchable anymore right so we have a problem and I was thinking other people must have the same problem there must be other communities that are suffering because you know they they post for six years and uh this information is not available anywhere on the internet. So Google cannot uh search it and now AI train agents cannot train on it and you know imagine how much you can power AIs with all of your knowledge about how your product works all the updates and they can follow everything scrape everything. This is why scraping is actually so good for decentralization right where all the other people in the world right now they're blocking uh scrapers and you know they're saying no you cannot train on our content. Go ahead, please train on our content. I want people to to see all the updates we did. So this was the problem. You know, it starts with this and then we have an entire community on Discord and once again nothing is public. No one has any idea what's happening. What do we do for the past six years? This is the problem. So identified this problem and what I did is a new tool for communities, right? Then my idea is well first apply to our community, show you the power of it and you can judge if your community wants to participate and if they do just reach out to us and you know we can work together and you know you'll be the first community to to uh to be here. So you know we'll work very closely and you know it doesn't uh so what would it cost you? Well first let's let's just see how this works right. So before we talk about you know how we could work together I think we should see just how cool this thing is. So what you see here is basically um we took all the updates we took we took certain channels from our discord and what we said is uh with discord API we said hey go and take all the content uh from these discord channels and then store it store all the posts and then what we're going to do is display them uh on the on a single page and hey look like right here you know you have all channels you could see all the updates we did. Look, uh this was what um 4 days ago, right? There's a video and then if you keep going down, you you can see here like, okay, you know, this is just this month, right? And then last month, you know, there's all these videos like there's all this content, there's all these things and look like this is just one page of updates. Do you know how many pages we have? 1145. So, you know, look, you go to the next page, you know, this is so here's a cool thing, right? So, it takes all the updates. But the thing is what I've noticed is in some of the updates that we do, as you can see here, it's Discord, but on Discord, I just post a link to Twitter, right? And I say, "Hey, go read the Twitter," and then that's the update, and then the Discord would embed it. I took it a step further. I use the Twitter API, take all the content from there, um, and then not just have a little snippet, but have a full story with the uh, advertising. And the cool part is now tweets are SEOed, right? So, I can convert this into a page. And if you look on the top, you can see social updates, MetaMask, blah blah blah blah. So, you have a user friendly uh, URL. Uh, if you take a look at inspect, uh, if you go to the head in Boom. Just gonna see one second. You have a descriptions and like all these SEO things, right? This is just phase one of what we're doing. We basically took Discord and then we took Twitter. We combine it together. We put it online as SEO. Uh make it super fast. Uh everything is available. Uh we can select uh you know like we can select which channels because you don't want all the channels. And then we took a step further, right? So just imagine the value your community could get from this. Uh so then the value is we take all this 6 years of content 1145 pages look let's go to the very first one hey guys you build this up on the test net you know this was way back when right and then you can follow our story right like see all the updates and you know like all the things as like look now we're listed on coin gecko hey that was in 2020 right such a powerful tool right it's it's just a discord bot you get it gets invited Bam. You don't have to do anything. All your content on Twitter is now SEOed and uh uh sorry on Discord is SEOed. And then we can enrich it further where instead of just seeing a link to Twitter, we take the full Twitter, right? So now we have Discord, we have Twitter and then we have some other things coming up like we will have to do Medium because sometimes we just post links to Medium and then we took it a step further and we basically cleaned it up, you know, made it uh very nice. So you can actually this is very useful like if you don't have time you know hey this is what we're doing and look I'll I'll take it a step further I don't have time to read through six years of updates just give me a summary okay here's your road map your updates is your road map you don't have to your way and say hey we're going to deliver some feature in 5 years no like look I go down here all the updates let's go through some look uh may not officially went live on 2020 in June and you know like okay November uh impressive impressive 81% quality on DeFi safety open beta uh let's just go pick some burn as a service like we're talking we we we've been talking about this we the idea was already there in 2022 I'm like hey you could utilize this so let's talk about burn as a service uh I don't know this video might be a bit long but it just very interesting right just listen to to this so here's the thing right it's a cool tool you know You might use it. I mean, all you have to do is invite a bot. Not that's it. Nothing. You don't have to do anything else. It just it'll take all your content and now it's SEO then on the internet and then we can talk about look you can have road map. This is AI. All I did is feed six years of data as a into AI. We can take a step further. You know what what do you want? you want like uh some slides or uh I don't know what uh you know who contributed the most or figuring out uh what is the coolest feature and writing a blog post about the the things are endless right because now we have the content and guess what in 2026 content is king right it's context it's content and we have six years of data right like data and data network that is it right like we are going to data mine all of your stuff. We're going to put it as SEO. And what does it cost you? That's the question. Like, here's the thing. You know, when you run a normal service, uh you would have to get a company. You would have to get a um um like a a you know, maybe credit cards and bank and all the people and everything is centralized and it's just not great. That is SAS. And in my opinion, SAS just is a dying business because you could just make SAS in 5 minutes. Like you can say, hey, go and solve this problem. Slap on the stripe API. That's it. This is the next frontier. So burn as a service. Instead, what we could do is well, the terms are completely up in the air because it is a uh centralized product with a decentralized um you know um organization behind it with the tokens. And the idea is by participating in a network that's what we want right we want people to participate. So this is the thing. So you cannot really in my opinion there should be no price like the price entry right now because what is this is going to cost us pennies right like for us to host some SEO it does almost nothing. So we'll absorb the cost. Okay. And what we're going to do instead is we're going to get you to participate in the network. So perhaps, you know, this is costing us $5 a month, right? Okay, just uh you know, maybe your community just uh registers or something, right? And maybe does a little burn. Um and then we're going to say it's like, look, it's costing us $5. How how much like the more you participate, you know, for example, if it if it cost $5 and you have to run your SEO for five years, that's 300 bucks, right? So, how are we going to um like we we cannot eat $300 for every single community. So, what we're going to do instead is we'll just say, "Okay, well, um let's burn, right? $300." And let's say you have a super popular website with millions of pages and now it's costing us $3,000 a month because, you know, all of a sudden we're SEOing like a million pages and all the bots are going crazy and the traffic is crazy. Okay, so that's it. You just burn, right? So I think the terms will be very flexible and I think it's up to our communities to decide right look you know I'll I'll I'll share like how much it's going to cost us as I'm running it and you know be like look this month this is sort of the traffic that we've seen and these are the costs and I think that's the best trade transparency so you see and then we'll have like different communities here right now it's just our community but you know look if no one wants no if no one in the world is interested in a free SEO plugin that just goes into your discord then um you know I will just keep building up on this right there's going to be like things like road map which is uh AI generated and uh there's more stuff coming like uh I want a general channel right but there's a bunch of people it's not really updates but what we could do is we could take AI uh summarize the general post every single month and deliver snippets of what people were talking about for the entire month and then we can even do a summary of the entire year and then you could be like see in you know in a few sentences or like a few bullet points the last 6 years what the community was talking about. So you know sometimes there'll be hype about Ethereum going down or maybe there's a new update or arbitr 2 is coming or there's an update and there's all these things happening or there's maybe someone that burned a lot of money and we're just talking about or there's like a crazy bump. So that is sort of the cool thing that's coming and uh functionally I think it's pretty much uh it's pretty close you know like all the URLs are working the data is working uh I am hosting this it's going to be completely brand new website um you know I'll figure out what the name is but most likely it'll be community.datamine.network and uh you know we'll take it from there. So this is going this is going to be like a centralized product um powered by decentralized network and it's going to be hosted on cloudflare uh and using D1 database. I'm just giving you all the technologies I'm using. Uh it's using the discord API, the Twitter API. It'll use um most likely our data mine network for the figuring out who's burning and who's participating in the network. Uh you can see right here this is basically our data network. So, you know, uh you can actually see here transfers like what's happening, right? So, if you go to lock and you can see like, okay, there's a bunch of people burning every 5 minutes, right? So, because they're playing the game. So, there's a bunch of these things and I just think we're going to get insane value from SEO because nowhere does anyone know anything about data mining now all of a sudden we're going to get,45 pages of SEO content. Just think about it. Mind-blowing. Right. Right. That's it for this video. I'll keep you guys updated. Let you guys know when this is live so you can play around with it. Thanks everyone.