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Re: Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder

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Post by ahpearce » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 12:49 PM UTC

I also have a background in statistics, but landed a job as mostly a software engineer (though technically my title is Data Scientist... buzz words!). I've been building basically a cookiecutter framework for the base of a SaaS app (basic pricing, user auth, etc.), and brainstorming ideas.

As others have said, the ideal route is to validate the market first, and guarantee customers before effort is committed.

If you'd like to tag up, just to chat casually about the idea or just entrepreneurship in general, feel free to e-mail me (in bio).

Re: Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder

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Post by rtx » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

notxenophobic wrote: post #49

rtx wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment comes off as xenophobic. I know it's acceptable in tech circle to talk this way, but not cool.

This is a throwaway account. I have been in companies where we'd outsourced to firms in India. The experience was not good for us, at all. The arm of the company that set up this arrangement, it went under. The offshore firm did not deliver. I realized what seems to be a cultural thing with folks I'd worked with from offshore firms. They would nearly always exude absolute confidence in their ability to deliver what y…

>I wonder why this is?

Because they were crooks, same as companies promising to protect your privacy and then selling your data. You will not hear anyone saying American tech companies are fraud.

Re: Ask HN: Starting a SaaS business as non-technical founder

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Post by kofejnik » Sat, Aug 08, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC

jitendrac wrote: post #35

I would say, Lean to code. Divide your SaaS project in small unit of task, explore each section unit by some video tutorial at first-good for first. try on youtube, freecodecamp or udemy. gain knowledge of subject and make small function to demonstrate the part of your saas products capability. Explore and learn, you can later hire some dev, co-founder or CTO of tech background. For coding, I would say put your effor…

For the love of God, please don't start with node/mongo! Just pick a nice reasonable framework in a sane language, like Django or Rails, use a relational DB, get things actually done, reliably, and keep your sanity.

Source: been a startup CTO more than once. Stay away from MERN stack, kids!