Gratz man. I think most important hint is to just start building.
Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
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Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have recently used Paddle for a small saas. I am selling a Pro plan that give access to a restricted feature of the web app. As the Pro plan was introduced as a later stage, Paddle verification team accepted to review a "staging" version of the web app before I post it to production. I definitely talk to real humans, but I took time to express my situation. Paddle integration not too painful (good but not perfect d…
How did you give them access to the staging version? Via a secret url? Or with login and password?
A secret url who wasn't to secret, it was simply a subdomain : preview.mydomain.com. Even if it was a subdomain, Paddle team was accommodating and approved the main domain. Just talk to them.
https://www.paddle.com/help/start/account-verification/what-...
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#23I would like to hear more about how you approach the issue of taxes. The way I understand Stripe Tax is that it will give you a huge list of sales like: $210 paid from a company in the USA $123 paid from an individual in France $300 paid from a company in Japan ... And then you are supposed to do the right thing with that list. Is that true? Do you pass that giant list to your tax accountant and they fill all the cor…
You can use a MoR payment provider such as paddle or spring which handle tax compliance for you globally. They will pay tax and take liability on behalf of you. They charge 5% per transaction.
And it allows more payment options like Paypal.
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#24Outsource the most as you can. Focus only on the logic and all will be fine.
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#25Strongly disagree about talking to people. You've got to talk to your customers and non-customers. It's a skill, you can learn it.
Absolutely, this is probably the most important thing a founder can do
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#26Strongly disagree about talking to people. You've got to talk to your customers and non-customers. It's a skill, you can learn it.
I'm a ~30K MRR indie hacker, and 10y backend developer. I 100% confirm everything he said, but I too agree the most important features all came from talking with users/prospects/customers.
I'm shit at it, but the mantra I tell to myself is: "remember when you were a kid? These are other kids that play with the same toys as you. Just talk about the toys and how to make toys more fun. Same enthusiasm!".
Just stay away from the mindset of "convincing people". Nobody likes being convinced to do something.
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#27Outsource the most as you can. Focus only on the logic and all will be fine.
But don't outsource talking to users! It's the literal compass for a successful roadmap.
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#28> Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI For frontend engineers, should the advice be the opposite: "Pick something that needs good UI/UX"?
I think generally you should pick something where you have that unfair advantage and you like to do. If you are good at sales of course you should pick something where you need lots of sales, same to UI if you are god like designer of course you should pick something where nice UI is advantage.
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#29Gratz man. I think most important hint is to just start building.
I disagree, as an engineer building is too tempting and will get you in trouble. Instead just start selling. Keep the building to an absolute minimum until you've sold something.
Re: Tips for Developers Who Want to Build a SaaS Startup
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you use Paddle or Spring? I would expect that MoR's have their own set of issues. As they become the seller. So they are liable for the product quality, safety etc. So I don't think signing up and working with them will be very easy. Especially if your product is not as standardized as an ebook or something. So if you use those, I would love to hear about your experiences. What you sell, how the signup was and how…
I have recently used Paddle for a small saas. I am selling a Pro plan that give access to a restricted feature of the web app. As the Pro plan was introduced as a later stage, Paddle verification team accepted to review a "staging" version of the web app before I post it to production. I definitely talk to real humans, but I took time to express my situation. Paddle integration not too painful (good but not perfect d…
That would be extremely useful to know about. I never understand how SAAS products deal with tax.