Sure, blame the internet, rather than yourself
the internet is the reason I wrote it. My failures are my own :-) thanks though
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
#32I was following this same path until yesterday, when I gave up. I have the mock-ups and all the notes with me, but I won't go ahead because I know it would be too much of an effort. Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's, at least IMHO.
Get after it! It's not too late and you don't need the latest *js to make something valuable. The effort can be worth it!
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#33congratulations! that was quite an adventure you went on and it might feel discouraging now but you are essentially set up for success the next time you start a business. just keep those lessons in mind and if you don’t make those mistakes again, i think you will get to ramen profitability at least.
I have a few other projects generating some revenue but nothing SaaS just yet. My exp doing this will definitely help in the future
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#34I was following this same path until yesterday, when I gave up. I have the mock-ups and all the notes with me, but I won't go ahead because I know it would be too much of an effort. Web dev has become rocket science for those who started in this business in the late 90's, at least IMHO.
HTML from the 90s will still run on today's browsers. Just because everyone is overcomplicating things doesn't mean you have to. If you have a great product it doesn't matter much what you use to build it.
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#35> Go for B2B if you can. Freelancers aren't rich. I don't understand this... can anyone explain?
I believe they're suggesting - in line with the point about not charging $5-$10 - that you should not build lower value SaaS products for eg freelancers (with the author implying that customer group doesn't have much money to spend). And that you should instead target larger business customers that will pay more.
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#36> Go for B2B if you can. Freelancers aren't rich. I don't understand this... can anyone explain?
"Sell to businesses, not individuals. Businesses have deeper pockets than individuals"
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#37> Go for B2B if you can. Freelancers aren't rich. I don't understand this... can anyone explain?
B2B vs B2C aren't two starkly different things - it's a spectrum between them.
Freelancers are a notoriously difficult market to sell to as they perceive every dollar spent as coming out of their wallet.
Compare that to a large enterprise company where the person making the buying decision is going to take home the same salary at the end of the week whatever the decision ends up being.
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#38> Go for B2B if you can. Freelancers aren't rich. I don't understand this... can anyone explain?
B2B means selling to other businesses instead of to individuals.
Re: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich
#39This is a pretty good atticle, and the product is actually quite solid (maybe a tad overpriced), but this right here is a rookie mistake:
> In January, 2019 I launched to HackerNews and some subreddits ...
Really? That's a "launch" these days? At least scrounge up a few hundred bucks and throw up some Facebook ads. Reddit and Hacker News have some of the most cynical and thrifty readers out there. Networking and getting the word out is half the battle. With such little effort put into the launch, OP could have been selling a dollar for fifty cents and no one would've cared.