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Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

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My spouse sells gift certificates for her business. It's a small volume. Whenever someone pays for a certificate on stripe, she receives the mail and she sends the certificate to the customer's email that initiated the transaction on Stripe. The certificate is a simple word file with a certificate number she increases manually before printing it to pdf. You could write an api that's called by stripe whenever a transa…

thank you

Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

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Like others have said, your infra might itself be the product. Look at https://gruntwork.io as possible inspiration. They’ve made a lucrative business by selling infra scripts that others can use. And their subscription model means they keep the scripts up to date.

thank you for the link

Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

#13

As others have said. What you’ve built could be your product, if it means I can deliver my product without worrying about everything you’ve mentioned. But that means I need to be able to seamlessly do so. So your product is enabling me to forgot all those problems exist. At the last startup I was working with platform became a significant blocker (primarily due to lack of people resources) and it was a primary reason…

being seamless here can be tricky 100%.

Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

#15

I'm on the other side of the fence. I am working on the very early stages of what is planned to become a SaaS product. It would save me a considerable amount of time to use something along the lines of what you appear to have done. If you'd like to chat further, my email is in my profile.

got it!

Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

#17

My spouse sells gift certificates for her business. It's a small volume. Whenever someone pays for a certificate on stripe, she receives the mail and she sends the certificate to the customer's email that initiated the transaction on Stripe. The certificate is a simple word file with a certificate number she increases manually before printing it to pdf. You could write an api that's called by stripe whenever a transa…

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Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?

#18

My spouse sells gift certificates for her business. It's a small volume. Whenever someone pays for a certificate on stripe, she receives the mail and she sends the certificate to the customer's email that initiated the transaction on Stripe. The certificate is a simple word file with a certificate number she increases manually before printing it to pdf. You could write an api that's called by stripe whenever a transa…

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