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I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Ehm...why all the past tense? We still ARE very much around...we just had our best year yet [1], and are on track to do even better. Don't count us out just yet! :) [1] https://blog.balsamiq.com/looking-back-2019/

Ok Peldi, now don't make me a liar. It wasn't luck. Double it in 3 years :-)

That sounds stressful! ;) We're not here for growth, but for longevity. I aim for 2% year on year growth, but for 100+ years. :)

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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post #257

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Ok Peldi, now don't make me a liar. It wasn't luck. Double it in 3 years :-)

That sounds stressful! ;) We're not here for growth, but for longevity. I aim for 2% year on year growth, but for 100+ years. :)

Excellent. Whatever works for you man, you are my hero.

Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

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Is there any "SaaS as a Service" that can be used to put up a MVP of your SaaS idea? Basically a whitebox SaaS open source that you can use? I only know of KongHQ but that's a SaaS marketplace, I don't think that's a good idea because with that you are treated as a vendor (no control of your users/ecosystem).

There are a few templates and things if you google 'saas boilerplate'. Most I've found are specific to languages and require a lot of setup. It's an ok idea, just needs to be executed correctly. Laravel really handles a lot of this well and they even developed a paid boilerplate that claims to do billing and other things easily https://spark.laravel.com/

thank you, I will check it out.
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