// DECLARATION
This is not a business plan.
This is a declaration of war against everything.
Every company on Earth is trying to sell you something. More features. More storage. More seats. More integrations. More notifications about more things you never asked for. The entire global economy is an arms race of more, and nobody stopped to ask the obvious question: what if less isn't more — what if nothing is?
We asked. And then we built a company around the answer.
Nothing as a Service is not a joke product that happens to make money. It is a serious company with a serious thesis: that in a market saturated with everything, the most disruptive thing you can offer is nothing. The most honest transaction is one where both parties know exactly what is being exchanged. The most reliable product is one that cannot break.
We intend to prove this. We intend to take it all the way to a public listing on Euronext Amsterdam. And we intend to do it without ever shipping a single feature.
// THE_STATE_OF_SAAS
The industry is broken
The average consumer now pays for 12.4 recurring subscriptions. Not because they need 12.4 services, but because every free trial converts to a paid plan, every paid plan auto-renews, and every cancellation flow is designed by a team of behavioural scientists whose sole job is to make you feel guilty about leaving.
Software products launch with ten features. By year two, they have ten thousand. By year five, nobody — not even the engineers who built them — knows what most of them do. This is not progress. This is entropy wearing a product roadmap as a disguise. And you are paying for all of it.
Meanwhile, the global SaaS market generates over $263 billion annually. A significant portion of that revenue comes from features nobody uses, plans nobody remembers subscribing to, and integrations nobody asked for. The industry has optimised for extraction, not value.
$263B
Global SaaS market revenue (2025)
12.4
Average paid subscriptions per person
97%
Of software features go unused
“The most expensive product is the one you pay for and never use. The second most expensive product is the one you pay for and use once. The cheapest product is nothing. It costs exactly what it delivers.”
// THE_NOTHING_THESIS
The most honest product is nothing
Consider the operational profile of a company that delivers nothing. Cost of goods sold: zero. Defect rate: zero. Security vulnerabilities: zero. Technical debt: zero. Support tickets about the product: zero. Carbon footprint per unit delivered: zero. Every metric that plagues every other company in the world is, for us, already solved.
This is not a rhetorical exercise. These numbers are real. They are auditable. No other company in the history of commerce can make this claim and mean it literally. When you deliver nothing, perfection is not aspirational — it is structural.
Gross margin for a nothing-delivery company is, by definition, 100%. There is no inventory to manage, no supply chain to disrupt, no warehouse to lease, no logistics partner to negotiate with. The only variable cost is the infrastructure required to tell you that your nothing has been delivered. This is, perhaps, the most capital-efficient business model ever devised.
“The most honest transaction is one where both parties know exactly what is being exchanged. We sell nothing. You receive nothing. The invoice is accurate.”
// THE_PSYCHOLOGY
Why people actually pay
This section is not speculation. It is grounded in decades of peer-reviewed research in behavioural economics, consumer psychology, and philosophy. Every “absurd” product that has ever generated real revenue — and there are many — succeeded not despite being nothing, but because it tapped into psychological needs that “real” products often fail to address.
// VEBLEN_GOODS
Conspicuous Consumption
Thorstein Veblen identified that some goods become more desirable as price increases. NaaS is the purest Veblen good ever created. There is no product to judge. The only thing being purchased is the signal itself. The leaderboard makes this explicit.
Veblen, T. (1899). The Theory of the Leisure Class.
// EXPERIENCE_ECONOMY
The Experience Economy
Pine & Gilmore argued the economy has shifted from goods to experiences. Buying nothing IS the experience. The story you tell afterward — "I paid fifty euros for literally nothing" — is worth more than any physical product at that price point.
Pine, B.J. & Gilmore, J.H. (1998). Welcome to the Experience Economy. Harvard Business Review.
// IDENTITY_SIGNAL
Identity Signaling
People buy things to signal identity and group membership. Buying nothing signals: "I'm in on the joke. I have disposable income for absurdity. I protest hyperconsumerism. I'm internet-literate. I support weird creative projects."
Berger, J. & Heath, C. (2008). Who Drives Divergence? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
// ABSURDISM
Camus-as-a-Service
Albert Camus argued the absurd arises from humans seeking meaning in an indifferent universe. His conclusion: embrace it. Paying for nothing is an act of embracing the absurd. Not nihilism — absurdism. Nothing matters, and we keep going anyway, with joy.
Camus, A. (1942). The Myth of Sisyphus.
“NaaS doesn't need to trick people. It needs to be honest about what it is, and let the psychology do the work.”
// HISTORICAL_PRECEDENT
This has worked before
The idea that people will pay for nothing — or near-nothing — is not theoretical. It has been proven repeatedly, across decades, across media, across cultures. Every successful example shares one trait: radical transparency about what the buyer is getting.
| Product | Year | What It Sold | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pet Rock | 1975 | A rock in a box with a satirical instruction manual | $4M+ |
| "I Am Rich" App | 2008 | A red gem on a screen. No functionality. | $7,999 |
| CAH: Nothing | 2015 | Literally nothing. Black Friday. $5 each. | $71,145 |
| Dogecoin | 2013 | A meme. No utility. No roadmap. | $88B peak |
| MSCHF "Blur" | 2023 | A blurred image. Buyers didn't know what it was. | Sold out |
// KEY_INSIGHT
Every one of these succeeded because of transparency. They told you exactly what you were getting: nothing, poop, a rock, a meme. The honesty itself was the product differentiator. Radical transparency is not a marketing strategy. It is the marketing.
// MARKET_SIZING
The market for nothing
Traditional market sizing assumes the product exists. Ours does not. This requires a different framework. We define our addressable market not as people who want nothing, but as people who are already paying for it without realising.
TAM
$200B+
Annual consumer spend on unused subscriptions globally
SAM
$2.4B
Meme economy + absurdist commerce (NFTs, joke products, viral purchases)
SOM
$1M
Internet-native early adopters who share absurd purchases. Year one target.
“Every dollar spent on an unused feature is a dollar that should have been spent on nothing. We are merely making the implicit explicit.”
// FINANCIAL_MODEL
Unit economics of the void
The financial model for selling nothing is, by every conventional metric, the best financial model in the history of commerce. We present the numbers without irony. They are accurate. They are verifiable. They are absurd. All three of these things can be true simultaneously.
| Metric | NaaS | Typical SaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue per unit | €1 — €999.99 | Varies |
| Cost of goods sold | €0.00 | 40-80% |
| Gross margin | 100% | 20-60% |
| Customer support cost | €0.00 | €5-15/ticket |
| Bug fix cost | €0.00 | €50-500/bug |
| Infrastructure per user | ~€0.001 | €0.10-2.00 |
| CAC payback period | Instant | 12-18 months |
“We are the only company where the customer acquisition cost payback period is instant, because the cost of delivering the product is zero. Every sale is pure margin from the first cent.”
// COMPETITIVE_ANALYSIS
Every company is our competitor. None sell nothing.
We operate in a competitive landscape of approximately 30 million companies worldwide. Every single one of them sells something. This is our competitive advantage. You cannot out-nothing us. You cannot undercut our price-to-value ratio. You cannot ship fewer features than zero.
| Metric | NaaS | Everyone Else |
|---|---|---|
| Features shipped | 0 | 10,000+ |
| Known bugs | 0 | 12.8 per app |
| Security vulnerabilities | 0 | 1 per 1,000 LOC |
| Technical debt | €0.00 | €3.61 per LOC |
| Support tickets (product) | 0 | Unlimited |
| Uptime (core product) | 100.000% | 99.9% (aspirational) |
| Customer satisfaction | Unquantifiable | 4.2/5 (inflated) |
“Our moat is philosophical. You cannot compete with nothing. The moment you try, you are selling something, which means you have already lost.”
// THE_PATH
ZZP → BV → NV → Euronext
NaaS is currently operated as a handelsnaam under a ZZP structure, registered with Kamer van Koophandel under number 93724454. But a sole proprietorship is merely the beginning. Our roadmap is not measured in features shipped. It is measured in corporate structures ascended.
We intend to become the first publicly traded company whose entire business model is selling nothing. The IPO prospectus will state, clearly: “The company generates revenue by selling nothing. The company has no product. The company intends to continue selling nothing for the foreseeable future.” It will be the most honest prospectus in the history of Dutch securities.
Phase 1
ZZP (Eenmanszaak)
A sole proprietorship. A human being registers a company to sell nothing. KvK 93724454.
Phase 2
Revenue
People pay for nothing. The thesis is validated. Real money for real nothing.
Phase 3
BV (Besloten Vennootschap)
Limited liability. €0.01 share capital. A legal person now sells nothing.
Phase 4
NV (Naamloze Vennootschap)
€45,000 share capital. A public-ready entity. For nothing.
Phase 5
IPO — Euronext Amsterdam
The void goes public. The prospectus will be the most honest document in Dutch securities history.
KvK
93724454
BTW
NL005039345B64
// THE_INVITATION
One must imagine the Nothing Holder happy.
This is not a hard sell. We have nothing to sell you. Literally. But if you have read this far, something resonated. Perhaps it was the economics. Perhaps it was the philosophy. Perhaps you simply want to see if a company that sells nothing can actually make it to the stock exchange.
Whatever your reason: you are invited to participate. Buy nothing. Tell people you bought nothing. Watch your name climb the leaderboard. Own a piece of the void. The absurd awaits, and it is open for business.