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For example, I use a VoIP tool quite often (almost daily). There are a lot of backends that can be used, like Twilio. The only thing is the front-end (ofcourse, it's not all front-end but you know what I mean)
I've been burning up knowing that if I were to have such a SaaS app, it will really do great.
Any suggestions on how I could start that up?
I'm looking to buy a SaaS app where the owner would to move on to next project. Let me know if you or anybody you may know would like to sell.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but it's great to be able to make a SaaS app because you're a developer. But how can I non-dev do it? For example, I use a VoIP tool quite often (almost daily). There are a lot of backends that can be used, like Twilio. The only thing is the front-end (ofcourse, it's not all front-end but you know what I mean) I've been burning up knowing that if I were to have such a SaaS app, it will re…
Before you start your first SaaS, read this:
http://www.saasgenius.com/blog/how-saas-will-change-technolo...
If you are looking for SaaS inspiration, maybe it's better to start with sales & marketing (Between January 2014 and January 2016 the number of SaaS companies grow from 947 to 3874.)
Source: http://www.saasgenius.com/blog/does-growth-hacking-work-stor...
I'm looking to buy a SaaS app where the owner would to move on to next project. Let me know if you or anybody you may know would like to sell.
http://geniepad.com is quite profitable. I work when I want to. At a minimum I need to put in about 1 hours of work a week total. I travel, enjoy life, read a shitload of books, etc. Total lifestyle business.
I mostly work on it one day a week, when I have a super maker schedule day and code for like 14h straight. The other days of the week I answer support emails and sometimes write blog posts. Total time these days is about 20h/week, and if I want to it can easily be 4h or less.
I've written a bit about my experience getting to here: - http://blog.complice.co/post/129788685472/complice-goals-ach... - http://blog.complice.co/post/130460454477/complice-at-2-year... -http://blog.complice.co/post/139686741757/my-complice-origin...
In some senses it worked fairly smoothly for me, but I'm not assuming it's easy. Some basic advice: (the posts above elaborate on some of this) - do things that don't scale - charge people from the beginning: ideally get 10 people to literally send you cash for their first month's subscription before you do much work--message friends directly rather than setting up a huge sales site - then gradually automate it with software, - (before you get monthly payments running on your app, you can run them with moonclerk (which uses stripe, so it's a seamless transition))
By following these principles, you know that at each step of the way, you're building something that people will pay for, because you have people paying for it. This also forces anyone you talk to for advice to take you more seriously.
Feel free to hit me up on twitter @Malcolm_Ocean with questions or just to connect :)
I run S3stat ( https://www.s3stat.com ) and Twiddla ( http://www.twiddla.com ) by myself and they combine to bring in a nice living. I built both with the stated goal of bringing in recurring income while minimizing the amount of time I actually spent "working". As such, I had plenty of time along the way to bootstrap via consulting work and to travel and otherwise lead an interesting life while the product businesse…
Thanks for your story. I absolutely agree that this whole buzz IS INDEED worth giving a try.
I am a part of a very small team, working on a SaaS app and I know how challenging it gets when there are so few people around.
But it's also a huge advantage - nobody can really limit you.
Good luck and all the best!
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Glad to see you're still around. I remember when you used to post on SitePoint often. I always looked up to your work. Just felt like saying that.
Hey, thanks. I remember the old SitePoint forums fondly, and other people there inspired and helped me get W3Counter off the ground. I occasionally check up on people I knew from there as well... Zach Holman (lo0ol) sold Good-Tutorials and became one of the first engineers at GitHub, Josh Pigford (shpigford) went on to make Baremetrics, Roger Stringer (freekrai) made Flybase, Josh Catone (bleys) became a writer then…