Definitely not luck to pick this area - I did 50 customer interviews before determining this was a good idea, and had done many interviews on other product ideas which I rejected on the basis of those interviews.
Initially I had the pain myself of having a popular WordPress site (blog.asmartbear.com) that would have problems when I got on the front page of Hackernews. Asking around, there wasn't a clear solution, but there was a desire to pay 5x-10x as much if there was a solution that also had good customer support.
I was never competing with wordpress.com, because that system didn't allow customization like your own plugins, themes, and custom code; that market of "builders" is what I was going for.
Of course that was 11 years ago -- today there are at least a dozen quality direct competitors (i.e. in "managed WordPress") and many more alternatives (e.g. Wix, SquareSpace, Shopify, etc). But also we're the 6th largest public website host in the world (not for WordPress, I mean for all websites), so we've succeeded in achieving scale despite that. Still, the competitve space is completely different now!
Love these questions!
We use cutting-edge technology to give you more than just another scheduling tool.
Among others, we trained an AI on +100K posts to predict how well your post will perform.
We're also currently looking into NFT support directly from FeedHive to embrace how creators will be using the web in near future!
So the biggest differentiator: We're up-to-date with 2021, and we're future-proof. Buffer, Hootsuite, Falcon, (...etc), are "just" scheduling tools.
We use 3 different marketing channels:
By far, the most efficient channel has been social media.
I'm very active on both Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram with my personal brand, and so far, the product is mostly founder-led in that sense.
It's something we're actively trying to change though.
We would like SEO / Content and paid ads to become the main channels in the long run, since they are easier to transfer (to a potential acquirer in the future), and easier to reason about (predict ROI, CAC, etc).
If you are looking to build a SaaS MVP on a lean stack, I'd suggest you explore these two tools:
ClutchCreator ($0/month): This lets you visually build your front-end components. You can either hire a developer or learn how to do this yourself by learning the basics of React. The reason why I love Clutch more than buildingBlocks, which Darian shows in the video demo, is because you can integrate your API straight into Clutch and build data-driven components. From the MVP standpoint, that's massive, because it saves so much time evaluating if the design will actually work with live data.
Supabase ($0/month): The best serverless backend that you can get to build your SaaS. They have a super generous free-tier, and the query performance is simply phenomenal. I have seen startups use Supabase for even transactional use-cases, and it just works phenomenally well.
Those are the two suggestions that I have from my side.
They are not as simple as WP, to be honest, but the things that you can do with Clutch.io + Supabase.io is insane.
I'm working on an MVP myself. Will publish and share with the community when it's ready.
u/kubelke Thanks so much for the question – haha this is a great one!
I could answer this in so many ways, but primarily: we charge for GoSquared because, unlike Google, we don't make money from a global monopoly on digital advertising 😂
In seriousness, though – there is always going to be a cheaper / free alternative to whatever you're doing, unless you yourself are offering something for free. In which case, you probably need to find a way to make money to pay your bills.
I believe for anyone building a business, it's obviously critical to build something people want. And for us, with GoSquared Analytics – we found many years ago that some people wanted an easier-to-use, slicker, faster, privacy-friendly website analytics tool. It's not for everyone(!) – but then it doesn't need to be. Google Analytics isn't for everyone either, but they mop up a huge amount of the marketing by being free.
The world is large, the majority of the world's population now have access to the internet. There are niche audiences, pockets of opportunity everywhere. Make something people want, and some number of people will pay something for it. You don't have to get everyone in the world to pay – just enough to satisfy your needs.
Often, the people saying "Why do I need you when I can get X for free!" are not your ideal customer – spend time finding more of the people that are.
Also, from our experience: no one will ever tell you they want to pay you more money. You will only ever hear pricing feedback that says you should charge less. It's a trap, usually – be careful who and what you pay attention to when it comes to pricing feedback!
I hope this helps!
Sorry to say, I have never heard of anyone doing this successfully, though I've heard of lots of people wasting time and money contracting out their MVP development (including myself). For Saas, you're almost definitely going to want to build onto your MVP right away, and you'll quickly run into problems if it's been contracted out (if you can even get it to an MVP you're happy with).
As u/Simplemnt said, a technical cofounder is ideal, if you can find one. Any good engineer will want to see traction before they jump on board. If there's one thing engineers hate, it's building something that never gets used.
Something else you might consider is no-code options. These tools have really progressed in the last few years, and may make it possible for you to develop. Something like bubble.io might do the trick, and they have templates you can buy off the shelf and customize. Like anything custom though, there is a learning curve.
If you're really committed and really believe in your product, you should consider a service like gigster that will help manage it and handle vetting and the product management. It's not going to be cheap, but it will at least assure you get something functional. Again though, I'd only look at that if the first two aren't options. Cheers and good luck!
email forwarding service. also support webhook, smtp and log
Totally self-funded. I leanred a lot. Currently made about $1300 per month
Also build in public https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hanami
This is hardest thing after you find your target market to focus on.
Testing, testing, testing. I read somewhere once that "the best marketers are the best at experiments and doubling down on what works". Every company is going to be different. You might even find channels that work for you but don't work for your competitors.
Just remember that each channel has different feedback loops. For example, direct sales gives pretty quick feedback while SEO can take months to years.
This might be a little outdated for new bootstrapped SaaS's but this book gives you a good framework to work from: https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Customer/dp/1591848369
Yes, a lot more to do.
We recently won #1 of the day and the week. Here is our PH page - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leanbe.
Ready to help you with suggestions.
Here leaving some valuable info.
- Better to launch with a known hunter ( you can hunt yourself as well) -our's was Chris Messina
- if you currently have users. send them emails, twice in 24 hours
- Outreach people on LinkedIn
- Use Facebook, Slack communities to get valuable feedback.
That's it for now, ping me if you have any questions
Stripe offers billing by usage. You don’t need to invoice them if your backend will support Stripe’s bill by usage feature.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/usage-transformation
I'm working on software to make product videos directly from websites in a few clicks.
Still in progress, want to make it super easy to use, but that takes time.
If anyone wants to participate in a very early beta to try it, let me know.
In general, it must be not harder than scroll and zoom to make a perfect video, directly from the website, not screenshots needed.
So, the video result looks like this
https://twitter.com/i/status/1437384227113291783
How the app works is here
https://www.loom.com/share/a2a04227f7ce4da8994877eb478a6fc0
I was building a list of investors when we needed to raise capital and I found it very time consuming and hard. So I thought raising capital is actually one of the most important things that almost every startup entrepreneur has to go through. But why there were no actual good products out there that could make their life easier? (at least I couldn't find one)
I was using Linkedin, Crunchbase, Angel List and some free email finder tools that limited the number of searches on Angels and VCs and it was super time consuming. That's when I understood that there must be a need for a product that helps founders find investors. We've built it, launched it and it works. Here are our internal numbers:
I use a lot of different things: grafana/kibana, Mixpanel (forgot to add that, editing post) + self built reports build in segment.com fed events (goes to postgres warehouse).
I noticed i forgot a few more
Create an account using a dummy email from https://temp-mail.org/ .
After viewing few 3 or 4 company details, you will be blocked from viewing more companies and asked to subscribe. In that case,use uBlock Origin's elemnt picker to hide the "subscribe overlay" permanently.Then you'll be able to view all company data without hassle.
Most of the revenue and data is outdated and/or inaccurate thus not worth paying for.
Few uses are idea validation and funding data.
Plausible is a privacy focused analytics platform. It doesn’t collect any personal data so it is GDPR and CCPA compatible. Plus it is open source, and it has a nice proxy feature that allows it to not be blocked by tracker blockers, so your stats are more accurate.
You can learn more here: https://plausible.io/vs-google-analytics
Thanks for having me :)
There are a lot of "but X can do this" feature requests. Drip sequences; A/B testing; transactional emails; the list goes on. To quote Getting Real:
> Beware of the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to web app development. Throw in every decent idea that comes along and you’ll just wind up with a half-assed version of your product. What you really want to do is build half a product that kicks ass.
> Stick to what’s truly essential. Good ideas can be tabled. Take whatever you think your product should be and cut it in half. Pare features down until you’re left with only the most essential ones. Then do it again.
I'm a one-man operation, and a not-even-full-time operation at that. I could never compete with, say, Mailchimp, which can throw dozens of engineers at a single feature.
When I get a feature request, I ask myself three questions:
If features don't pass all three questions, they generally don't get in. It's important that I keep Buttondown's biggest drawback — it's minimal surface area — also it's biggest competitive advantage. I have a lot of people not use Buttondown (or churn off of it) because of lack of feature parity, but that cohort pales in comparison to the folks who use it specifically because it has so few features.
Fastspring, Paddle, Payproglobal, MyCommerce, 2checkout
if you use Stripe then you can calculate tax and charge it. and then you need to register and report sales tax in almost all states and all countries on your own! Stripe don’t have plans for it as they say. Check the list of countries where you will need to register and report https://stripe.com/docs/tax/registering
So, if your sales are $10,000 then you will charge say additional 15% of sales tax in average. Then you will need to prepare and send report to every state or country. Your advantage is only that you can keep these additional 15% funds for some period of time but in exchange you need to handle reporting to every location you’ve sold. if your sales are like $1M then 15% will be around $150k, so for example you make 10% on it ($15k) and then probably you can get someone to file, send reports and so on?
I'm unfamiliar w/ Tasks, so I don't know if this is quite what you're after... but host your own instance of JIRA? I think your solution depends a great deal on which features of Tasks you'd like to find in an alternative for. Trello doesn't have a self-hosted option, but is one of the most popular project management apps.
Maybe an alternative to that from this list will work: They claim Wekan is the best Trello alternative.
Hi everyone,
I am building a tool to monitor dependencies (NuGet and NPM) in app to make sure they are up-to-date and do not have vulnerabilities. Launched it on PH few days ago: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/4smart-packages-overview
Will appreciate any comments or feedback.
Thanks a lot, Kiryl
Well we launched ... and it is as bad as you'd expect.
It is a good learning experience tho. Thank you for your questions & feedback u/karen_vardanian and u/PrestigiousZombie531 Have a good one :D
>https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leanbe
Hey, I saw your launch. Got Notified as I'm following Chris. Congrats! A serious amount of Upvotes! 🚀 + cool product!
Here leaving some valuable info.
- Better to launch with a known hunter ( you can hunt yourself as well) -our's was Chris Messina
I know but we have a hard deadline to launch by the end of the month. There is no time to find a hunter - seems like Chris is super nice, but needs to be contacted with like 2-3 weeks in advance
- if you currently have users. send them emails, twice in 24 hours
We have very few users. Will reach out to friends and family and run some Ads like NOW.
- Outreach people on LinkedIn
Did you make a template message that you sent to a bunch of contacts?
- Use Facebook, Slack communities to get valuable feedback.
Would love some recommendations. So far I've found only kinda dead facebook communities.
Hey!
We're a remote organisation that faced a bunch of issues with our HR software so we decided to build out our own. 9 months later, We launched on ProductHunt yesterday, and made it to #3 product of the day! We're a bootstrapped, indie product that helps small teams plan and take the time off that they need.
We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think!
Yep, also use the new billing portal session features for my SaaS. Much easier to implement (just generate a URL) and now my customers can also view past invoices, change subscription/payment methods, edit company info, address and VAT, etc. all without having to write any of code that code myself.
Stripe has some good guides on pricing https://stripe.com/en-au/atlas/guides/saas-pricing
Really though you'll need to test what works.
I think the $1 approach works if you also add some messaging around it like Trends does. Otherwise it could come off as deceptive.
Your decision with (a) needs to then be do you offer a monthly subscription with or without a credit card required up front.
And also - what's the actual cost of having tire kickers around? It's not like there is a unit cost. The main thing is any support you need to offer to get them set up which sounds minimal.
Your pricing page looks good though - I'm curious, do people pay those type of prices for these services? (not a criticism, just curious)
Just spitballing ideas:
No code option like bubble might be perfect for this. You should be able to put together a basic system that includes taking orders and providing a very basic customer portal to obtain images.
Webflow (static website) + Typeform & Stripe (to take orders and process payment upfront) + Gdrive/Box/Dropbox (to handoff order deliverables)
If you have an Office365 tenant for e-mail, consider using Powerapps. Specifically the model-driven ones, that allow you to very quickly build custom applications on the basis of a simple CRM. With the per-user plan costing only $20/user/month, you can very rapidly innovate and bring your product to the market.
Thanks a lot!
Definitely. You can see more here in this Indie Hackers post.
TL;DR: We're using GPT-3 to generate idea templates that you can write your posts from, to generate relevant hashtags based on content, and to predict how well your post will perform 🙌
I am not doing yet, but I see it's common practice.
e.g. https://slack.com/integrations
Only thing you should check terms of use for each API you are using.
e.g. as I remember for google SSO logo usage strictly regulated, you should use exact design on login page only, not in promo.
But for other Google API's it maybe different.
While this does not answer your question directly you might want to look into the "Intercom on X" ebook series which is 100% free.
Given that you're looking for knowledge around SaaS marketing you'll find "Intercom on Marketing" useful (https://www.intercom.com/resources/books/intercom-marketing).
There is a great free book on what to factor in when deciding how to setup support at a startup by the folks at Intercom -
https://www.intercom.com/books/customer-support
I am not affiliated with them at all, just found it a well formulated book. And they offer support services. I have not used them, but they look better than zendesk.
And don't get zendesk. I found it complicated.
I never tried it but https://www.tawk.to/ say that, besides offering their live chat module for free, they can hire chat agents for $1/hr for you — I suggest reading some reviews before going down that route but it came to my mind when I read your question
As promised https://www.loom.com/share/fea82b38e0ef43bb83bda82080b56968
Please let me know your thoughts.
Feel free to share. Whenever your ready send me a DM.
u/friedster – sorry Jason, just wanted to stop by to say I was so inspired by this response last night that I woke up this morning, and recorded a product walkthrough for GoSquared Analytics. One take, merely a zoom recording, but not quite 37 mins like yours!
https://www.gosquared.com/analytics/#how-it-works
Hoping this can give us results like yours did! Thanks again for all the inspiration and motivation here – exactly what I needed on a tough week.
Besides revenue, churn, ARR, etc. (because I cannot directly affect these metrics), the main metric for me is the usage (value) metric that will be different for different products.
For example, for my social media automation app, the metric is the number of posts people schedule in the app. The logic here is simple. I can affect this metric by improving experience or educating customers. And if this number increases, all the important metrics that I can't affect (MRR, churn, etc.) will also improve.
This metric of the product is called the "north star" metric. Check out this reading, it is really great and free: https://amplitude.com/north-star
🙌
We use Hubspot and pretty much works for our requirements at CanvasJS
You need to feed a lot of data(either automate or manual) to make the most out of it. Good to use a single platform for CRM, Sales, Marketing & Service. They recently upgraded the number of custom reports and dashboards you can create.
>all Figma allows is static screens, so if you want users to "free roam" around your UI and being able to click on any interactive element in any order, you'd have to design all screen combinations for them. I hope I'm making sense
That's true. We prioritised building out a design system with Storybook and Vercel thanks to which we our designers could with minimum fuss work with engineers to easily create functioning UI prototypes that we could test with users. We'll be writing about this process as part of our upcoming blogs but it effectively cut our design-dev cycle in half.
We may adjust the prices but ideally we want people to accomplish their tasks, we don't want people to pay little no money and totally forget about it. We are also playing around the idea of paying back x percentage back to user on successfully accomplished tasks. https://unicornplatform.com/ here you go friend :)
How about using nocode tools like Bubble.io?
My startup RewardNation is built completely on nocode and I just launched a second micro SAAS SupportBell on Product Hunt. Built the MVP in just 5 days.
If you have the time and resources to learn, have a look at OWASP ZAP - https://www.zaproxy.org/. It's a free tool and if you're just getting started, they have an Automated Scan that is fairly easy to use (just plug in your website or webapp URL) built in that can help you identify the core vulnerabilities of your server configurations etc.
Check out Strapi + Postgres - https://strapi.io
Strapi gives you email authentication, user roles, an admin dashboard, and REST and GraphQL out of the box. And then if you need to, you can override the defaults and customize the endpoints logic as you want.
This is what use on all my projects now : I use Strapi + Postgres with docker-compose and deploy the whole thing on a VPS.
One alternative is to use Heroku Connect - https://www.heroku.com/connect - which presents Salesforce objects as Postgres tables. This greatly simplifies the integration process at the cost of some additional setup time.
Thanks! Here's a link to that episode if folks are curious: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/210-derrick-reimer
It was a fun one for sure.
The Product Hunt launch for Divjoy drove over $10,000 in sales. Probably more if you include the word of mouth it generated.
Things that worked: - Offered a limited time deal with a countdown (FOMO!) - Announced to my existing audience on Twitter and in my newsletter. - PH happens to be my target audience. Lots of people on there that want to build SaaS products and Divjoy helps them do that.
I wrote up a detailed recap awhile back on IndieHackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/from-product-hunt-to-16-285-in-sales-827d57e7e8
Seems like a Saas starter kit to help people build SaaS products faster without dealing with the boilerplate code, lets them get to the unique business logic quicker. Take a look at this indiehackers thread for similar products it might give you some inspiration:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/29-saas-starter-kits-boilerplates-based-on-your-favourite-programming-language-framework-35387161e0
Sooo many things. In order of $ lost:
Also, here is a story article on Freecodecamp.org about someone's journey to building an API business. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-accidentally-built-an-api-business/ . It also references the RapidAPI.com site.
Hey u/theos3737! Here's your website assessment https://www.notion.so/theventur/handigo-run-bc9f1ae157d143278b9e8af9e1fc2433
Hope you'll find a few things that you could apply to get more demos and sales.
:) Also sorry for the late reply
For finding:
Here's a set of templates and examples for interviewing customers
MicroAcquire is likely the way to go for smaller businesses.
If you're dealing with $200k+ deal size (so $50k+ yearly profit), I'd highly recommend investing in a business broker to make sure you get max value. They'll find you buyers and handle the whole process for you. QuietLight is great for that kind of thing - no affiliation, just really happy with them.
Also check out the book Exitpreneur's Playbook for some super useful insights.
Not 100% a marketing tool but we have many agencies and marketers using Taskade's To-Do List & Mind Map to manage and organize their client tasks and projects in multiple workspaces. Our app is designed for marketers working on multiple projects and with multiple teams at once.
Any major entity i.e. EC2 is an asset but its secondary and tertiary objects like NICs are not considered assets. We have the full list below and the status of the assets we are bringing in.
If you're interested ,So With my app you can listen to you documents and ebooks. It can also read text from images. Don't waste time reading your documents just listen to them with my app. Its an AI document reader which immensely increases your productivity. You can check it out here
I prefer to structure my terms similar to Basecamp.
New accounts and renewals always have an opt out, but it's very pragmatic and easy to manage from the customer service/support side.
if you're pitching I can recommend a great book called 'Pitch Anything' - i actually made a public knowledge base of all the books, articles, and videos relevant for founders (lots of books on this sort of stuff). You can see it here - hope its useful!
Read the two books by this guy Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01CV0WC7U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_57W7JE711PZP6RMS7V9F. Started at hubspot in his 50s I believe. Very funny and informative.
Todoist has this functionality. "Beta" is an industry standard word. I don't see a reason to deviate from that. I think a lot of SaaS users are used to the word by now. Any alternative might confuse users.
Obviously Awesome - April Dunford.
https://www.amazon.com/Obviously-Awesome-Product-Positioning-Customers/dp/1999023005
This is a life-changing book, not just about positioning - but strategy, marketing, etc. It all starts with positioning.
Hey everyone!
We've built a no-code business app builder (to create Internal Tools, Admin Panels, Portals, etc really fast and without engineering support) and just launched on Product Hunt.
We'd highly appreciate any honest thoughts and comments: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jet-admin
P.s there's a 20% discount as well for those coming from PH🙂
I've been working on Unlock for over a year and just launched a little over a week ago. The origin for building this has been a problem I ran into myself. In 2021 I decided to try and make a living online, so I made a little desktop application but found it challenging to share it with the world because of how distribution worked, and there was no plug & play solution for licensing (license keys). So I started to work on a solution; over time, I found that this problem was not just for Electron (the technology I used for the desktop application) but also for many other programming languages like PHP, Python, NodeJS, and Ruby. So Unlock exists to help other developers make a living online (starting without any monthly commitment). At the same time, they can keep focussing on doing what they love to do: writing code and not distribution, billing, licensing, and marketing.
Wow, greatly appreciate this—love these tips, all things we now intend to do. We heard that getting upvotes in the first 20 minutes of launch is what moves products from new -> trending, which is where the magic happens.
Unfortunately for us, we don't have FB/Insta and are starting cold in building interest/pre-launch following for this. We did build out a Ship via PH landing page, which supposedly allows us to collect early follows so folks are notified when we launch. I know I'm asking for a lot here, but if you have any tips on how to promote/get early follows, we'd be incredibly grateful (our Twitter account got created yesterday and has 0 followers FYI—we're really starting cold).
Hey! We might happen to be exactly what you are looking for. If you're interested, check our pricing page here and feel free to book a free consultation with us. We will do our best to help you!
Be aware of tax regulations for SaaS businesses over there. If your SaaS business has a physical or economic nexus in a state or specific jurisdiction, you’ll have to pay sales taxes there. Before the 2018 South Dakota vs. Wayfair Supreme Court ruling, sales tax was triggered by nexus, which meant a business had to have a physical presence in a tax jurisdiction to qualify for sales tax.
However, the Wayfair ruling brought changes for SaaS services. It means that even if you don’t have a physical presence in a particular US state and the purchase is made online, you may still be required to register in that state and collect sales tax (for more info read SaaS Online Sales Tax 101).
This requirement is enacted whenever you exceed the economic nexus threshold. So, if your SaaS business is based in Texas, but your customers all seem to be buying your products in Ohio, you may be required to collect sales tax if economic nexus is reached there.
Check out this interactive map that shows the information on all states and countries requiring sales tax paid on SaaS services.
Yes, there must be a renewal reminder, even if it renews every week.
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Sometimes the customers simply forget they signed up in the first place. This means you would need to handle chargeback disputes on a monthly basis. It’s not easy, bank regulations a very complex and to successfully navigate in this legal mumbo-jumbo requires a high level of expertise and storage of data.
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Even if you win all chargeback disputes, this doesn’t save you from the negative statistics that can’t be reversed.
Building a SaaS business can be difficult enough – any way you can make it easier (like using a tool or software), will help get you to profitability and beyond much faster.
The good news is that a Merchant of Record (MoR) can make your job a lot easier. Merchant of Record can handle plenty of aspects related to electronic payment acceptance, including:
Many eCommerce businesses and platforms face numerous risks that could affect their growth and position in the market. These are:
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The best way to minimize eCommerce risks is to start working with a Merchant of Record. Learn the pros and cons of MoR in our article.
Managing all those SaaS payments and taxes can be a lot to juggle. Check out our MoR solution here at https://payproglobal.com and feel free to schedule a consultation if you got any questions.
If you're looking for someone who can handle your sales process while you focus on the product itself, I'd recommend you to contact PayPro Global and forget about subscription management, global taxes (including VAT), compliance, reports, global payments and 24/7 customer billing support.
Schedule a free consultation with PPG, if you have got any questions or just need a piece of advice.
Taxes. SaaS state sales tax regulations are complex and vary from state to state.
We send invoices automatically using PayProGlobal's platform. PPG can manage all your global payments, invoicing, 24/7 customer support, tax compliance, report and analytics, while you focus on your product.
You won't believe this, and I may sound like a dick
This sounds like a you problem, not a customer problem.
I suggest you read the Not a map article on intercom.
I didn't work with Stripe for a long time, so I don't remember the details. What I remember is you create coupons in your dashboard and then you apply them using API. See more details in their documentation https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/discounts
There's your typical no-code tools like bubble and appsheet. But you'll often come to realise that beyond a point you can't customize it or do complex things. Here's where you can do something interesting.
You can learn a little bit of data modeling and use something like hasura to build your backend without writing any code.
You need a way to charge your customers, stripe has a way for you to do it without code. Only thing is that you'll be manually generating the payment links instead of the user clicking "subscribe" and seeing a dynamically rendered form.
https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links
I'm not sure what type of saas you are building, specifically how you are delivering the value. You can hire a dev to just build the parts that are critical or the front facing parts (that you can't build with bubble/appsheet/wix/squarspace).
You can make use of the existing saas solutions that integrate well with other products - like a ticketing system, live chat system. Substitute administrative work with manual work to reduce your dev costs initially.
Stripe Connect, but IIRC it's only available for U.S accounts. you can use custom connect to obfuscate the fact they are making an account for stripe but then you would have to do all the verification by yourself which can be difficult. Paying out users with stripe
They're called 'generic startup illustrations'. They work great for generic startups.
I like the diversity on Icons8: https://icons8.com/illustrations - and they're free to use with attribution.
I use amplitude.com to record events of interest and get some insights into how the app is being used. Most of the data I analyse today comes from Amplitude. But then there are some other metrics, like the distribution of app languages; the number of data points user has created; or the presence of tags and other grouping tools which a business has in use. It's more of a snapshot of things then a usage dynamics, if you know what I mean.
Bubble.io, though Appsheet used to support reselling as well before Google bought them. Not sure if it's still is that way or not.
Bubble has more robust customization options and a ton of API integrations as well.
I think we talked in the in-app message platform right? Did you find it here?
We can always jump on a call to help you navigate with the integration.
Would be happy to help you out and learn more about you and your business! 😁
Love stuff like this as I’m trying to build a remote team. How much revenue are you generating with 35 employees?
Also have you read much on how gitlab do it? They have 1,400 employees over 60 countries - all remote and have their own playbook: https://about.gitlab.com/resources/downloads/ebook-remote-playbook.pdf
Thank you.
I came up with the idea as I was a DJ myself. More here > https://blog.vibecast.com/welcome-to-vibecast-the-website-builder-for-djs-a412fe1e529d
I linked various updates to building Vibecast here > https://www.indiehackers.com/product/vibecast
I hope that helps :)
I’ve seen this app featured on bubble and great that you were able to grow it:)
Here’s the other side of your story https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-sold-my-no-code-gpt-3-bubble-app-virtual-ghost-writer-4cf8e20929
Companies like Meta and Microsoft wouldn't want their users to access their services any way other than how they desire. This is why they have checks in olace that make it a abit difficult to build bridges across apps.
The only project I know that seems to be making good progress in this front is matrix - https://matrix.org/ But AFAIK, that too suffers to integrate whatsapp and messenger.
But I might be wrong.
I found that answering 'we need to keep track of X' or 'we need to be more data driven around bla' is almost impossible as the conversation can take you anywhere.
What I do is very carefully try to write down the answers you want to see answered. For example:
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These questions will push you in the right direction.
Myself I am using segment.com (analytics.js) to trigger analytics calls that then go to mixpanel custom reports. In addition we have some prometheus reports with simple reporting like Active Users per Week, etc...
If you write down your questions I will reply/suggest which tools to use to solve it. What is your stack today?
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I would always refer to Dave McClure's startup metrics for pirates as a good starting point. As relevant today as it was then.
https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
Yes I have read their Handbook, thanks for re-sharing anyway!
I can't disclose revenue but we get >2K team signups per week, without running any paid acquisition. We're still small comparing to Gitlab!
On precisely how we run Builds, there's more content on this post if you're interested.
Good luck with building a remote and great business u/r0bbyr0b2!
Recently, we wanted to buy an email marketing tool for our company.
For that, we did a lot of in-depth research. Email tool comparison
I think that might be helpful for you to choose the best tool for your need.
I used to work at Evernote where we had a small team that focused on i18n. There's a blog post that describes the process quite well: https://evernote.com/blog/serge-is-now-open-source/
What is the upside to streaming on your service vs youtube/twitch/etc? Could help us in suggesting next steps.
Also, you should check this out https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Start-Problem-Andrew-Chen/dp/0062969749
My production app (friendliest.app) is Ruby on Rails, Postgres and AWS S3 and CloudFront. The app's blog is Gatsby, React, GraphQL.
My new app in development (friendVOCATE) is also Rails and Postgres with AWS services, but leverages Hotwire/Turbo/StimulusJs in lieu of other JavaScript libraries. Knowledgeable for the new app is Jekyll.
Everything (Rails/Gatsby/Jekyll) is using Tailwind CSS and all of it is hosted on Render (https://render.com) and either runs through Render's CDN or AWS CloudFront.
If you haven't looked yet, StackShare is a cool resource for peeking at the stacks of SaaS platforms, big and small.
Here is the link to the full tech stack for my production app - https://stackshare.io/friendliest-app/friendliest-app
Cheers!
Hi everyone!
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With Hoffen.
I mean the clicks, the scrolling and each point of friction. You can remotely observe it all, live.
Setup: Add✌ lines of code and that's it.
It's a tool for you to understand your customers better. To find out what your customer expects out of your product/service.
We're also on Product Hunt.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hoffen
We've just recently launched and are an early-stage startup.
I'd love it if you could take a look and offer your feedback.
Name: MyDone
URL: https://www.mydone.io
Location: Ukraine / Will be fully remote
Pitch: Future of work platform with digital headquarters.
Stage: Launched Alpha on ProductHunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mydone
Looking for: Feedback on the product, hear your story.
More details - At MyDone, we're building a future of work platform that surfaces clarity and empowers everyone.
In this concept, anyone in the company can immediately see the big picture — how well each company's objective and key result is doing, and how individual work can drive the common goals. This clarity, transparency, and focus allow teams to collaborate with less friction and produce great results.
We are close to launching the Beta version in a couple of weeks. Alpha can be viewed on our website.
Name: MyDone
URL: https://www.mydone.io
Location: Ukraine / Will be fully remote
Pitch: Future of work platform with digital headquarters.
Stage: Launched Alpha on ProductHunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mydone
Looking for: Feedback on the product, hear your story.
More details - At MyDone, we're building a future of work platform that surfaces clarity and empowers everyone.
In this concept, anyone in the company can immediately see the big picture — how well each company's objective and key result is doing, and how individual work can drive the common goals. This clarity, transparency, and focus allow teams to collaborate with less friction and produce great results.
We are close to launching the Beta version in a couple of weeks. Alpha can be viewed on our website.
Sharing with you our rebranded tool - Leanbe.
We got a bunch of feedback from our customers and decided to change the name of the product and creat a brand new website. Kindly asking you to check it out and share your feedback.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leanbe
Thank you
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Hello!
Today we’re launching our Email Signature Agency Hub. A dedicated space for marketing agencies and design studios that would be happy to extend their services by providing professional signatures to their clients.
So go ahead and share your feedback on Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mysignature-agency-hub
Hey guys, we have just released our new product on Product Hunt yesterday and would love your feedback! The product is called Catapult and you can check it out here
Backstory: We are a SAAS Startup on a mission to become one of the 10 best language service providers in the world. We facilitate translations for everyone, especially organizations with AI, ML, and proofreading of experienced translators.
I built directory of SaaS companies pricing. You can compare things like number of tiers, free trial length, enterprise option etc for 350+ companies.
I launched it on ProductHunt today 🚀
🍃 GREEN STORAGE 💻
I had an awesome idea back in 2017 but I didn't know how to validate before making the software, to gain an edge to the competition. So I started creating it.
One year ago I asked:
"What price would you buy private cloud storage from me?"
people answered:
"Why would we buy from you? You can't go cheaper than Amazon Glacier."
I said:
"What if I could?"
they all replied:
"Then your hardware is crap for that price."
Well, they would have been right, except I'm using their own hardware to do this. The product I created can utilize all the free disk space on any company's computers. Most laptops and computers are equipped with 1TB disks, and if you can only store work related stuff on it, there's a good chance of 6-700 GB free space left. For a 5000 employee company that's 3250 TB! And it's so much more environment friendly than buying new hardware I HAD TO make it.
So here it is, just launched on ProductHunt, I hope this is a beginning of a journey. Any feedback is welcome! You can find a video, screenshots and the official website here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/enterprise-data-storage
Hello everyone
Our product BrandSSL has recently been featured on ProductHunt.
BrandSSL enables you to secure your customer's custom domain names if you are in the SaaS industry.
Please do check it out and show some ❤
📷https://www.producthunt.com/posts/brandssl
I launched my product on PH last month and it sent $7,456 in sales: https://producthunt.com/posts/divjoy-2-0
It was very much worth it for me, but my product is for people building web and SaaS apps. Lots of my potential customers are on PH.
Some reasons I think it went well:
- I offered a sizable discount. My product is a one-time cost, so it's particularly easy to drive sales with a discount. Even if people don't need it now they'll jump on the deal.
- Divjoy had been around for over a year already, so I had a decent size audience who jumped in to upvote and leave a comment.
- Spent some decent time on the animated logo, screenshots, intro comments, etc. All those details matter.