Are you an investor? I am curently working on proving a concept for a SaaS that can scale at MM within couple of years.
And yet I got -2 points for this. The world is full of envious ppl.
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Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#12Also take a look at this,
This might spark an idea
https://wishminer.com/
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#13Also take a look at this, This might spark an idea https://wishminer.com/
It's just a pile of crap auto-harvested from Reddit and Twitter.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Got a link to that thread? A few of my buddies are machine shop owners, and I would love to see what they said.
Found it just as I was about to give up https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/shop-management-and-ow...
That really is a fantastic thread, thanks for taking the time in digging it up. Guy really knows his stuff and has great customer focus, i.e. patience of a saint :)
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#15i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now.
all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#16i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now. all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Can you elaborate _stupid things_ part?
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#17i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now. all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Why would you say to avoid cloud like the plague? I was thinking about trying to start something in that domain.
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#18i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now. all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Why would you say to avoid cloud like the plague? I was thinking about trying to start something in that domain.
it brings massive overhead, complexity and time investment in designing and maintaining the infrastructure and the entire build pipeline. instead of working on your business logic/product, you will spend a ton of time on cloud stuff(I wasted an ENTIRE year on this once). it will steer you into wrong direction, technologically. keep in mind that sales and PR people push cloud on you most of the time, not real devs and successful people. not to mention that it is crazy expensive + expenses cannot be precisely known in advance. it's a guessing game. bare metal is king and the argument of maintaining it yourself falls apart when you calculate some basic pricing and find out that after 4 months in cloud you get to own the hardware itself and the money yo usave can pay for multiple sysadmins if you want to.
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#19i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now. all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Can you elaborate _stupid things_ part?
cool thing - stripe is shit, lets make a better one.
stupid thing - write a shopping list app that will notify me when i am on my way home and near a grocery store
cool thing - lets make a database that does it all, schema is irrelevant
stupid thing - i just want a cheap theme for my wordpress blog that doesn't require me to know programming
cool thing - kafka it too complex, lets make a faster, simpler and better one
stupid thing - did i miss my bus or is it just late?
....just incredibly boring things that won't interest any programmer but ordinary people find useful.
Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?
#20i have been dealing with this for about 15 years now. all i can say is avoid cloud like a plague and look for stupid-simple-things. even if it does not excite you, those ideas usually work the best. don't try to outsmart people, you will fail. look for simple opportunities. and if you cannot make MVP within 3 months, forget the idea and move on.
Why would you say to avoid cloud like the plague? I was thinking about trying to start something in that domain.
ps: you can run monolith or monolith with microsevices just fine, but avoid SoA like cancer. people take soa = microservices, which is just not true. view microservices like cloud functions or cloud run, not as vps a instance.