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Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?

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Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?

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Post by boghy8823 »

I subscribed to this weekly newsletter for the past three months https://www.softwareideas.io/

Every week, he finds VC-backed or profitable, upmarket companies that bootstrappers can compete with.

It addresses your question of what to build by looking at big players in different industries and coming up with downmarket opportunities.

Re: Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?

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Post by tinyattackcat »

achempion wrote: post #7

Since you're asking for some sort of advice, take any idea you come up with and validate it. The only way of validation is getting paid. Don't write any line of code before getting payment. You can accomplish very much with current available tooling. If your project requires some sort of implementation, don't spent more than two weeks on it. You could create landing and forms using services as typeform and others. Th…

> Don't write any line of code before getting payment. Are you suggesting you ask for pre-payments on your landing page/forms? Is that a thing?
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