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…
Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
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Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
#12Like 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.
Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
#13As 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…
Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
#14Maybe you can create a business on top of that. I'd pay for a ready to go platform to kickstart my own saas.
Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
#15I'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.
Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
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#17My 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…
Re: Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
#18My 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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