ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS

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Post by con-cat » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 2:49 AM UTC

ExSaaSperated: A blog about the struggle to start a sustainable SaaS
exsaasperated.com

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Post by Thorentis » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

ExSaaSperated: a SaaS to help you build your own unsustainable SaaS.

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Post by sky_rw » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

"Also, all these whiz-bang success stories suffer from enormous survivorship bias."

Well that's because in 2 years when you finally pull the plug on a failing business so you can pay your bills, you end up shutting down the blog you stopped posting to regularly 14 months ago and nobody can find it anyway because you put it on an 'indie' platform.

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Post by chrismorgan » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:24 AM UTC

There are two more posts at https://exsaasperated.com/ (“who are you?” and “our goal”) that further enlighten (though they still don’t cover what will be being built, I guess that’ll come soon).

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Post by alixanderwang » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:26 AM UTC

I actually feel like I've been hearing a ton about failures, though they're all preceded by "you never hear about failures", and proceeded by, "and then I took what I learned and succeeded".

What I actually never hear about is stories of trying to build a SaaS, failing, and then just giving up and going back to being a salaryman and retiring after a few decades. It's either that these stories are rare -- which signals that persistence works --, or the stories are just never shared.

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Post by toothbrush » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:27 AM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #4

There are two more posts at https://exsaasperated.com/ (“who are you?” and “our goal”) that further enlighten (though they still don’t cover what will be being built, I guess that’ll come soon).

Hey Chris, thanks for visiting. Author here. We actually have several projects we've tried to launch with varying degrees of traction. One of them (https://vistaserv.net) made the rounds here a while ago, actually. We plan to write posts about several of these projects, pick apart what worked and didn't. And, if we come up with resources or techniques that worked well for us, we'll be posting about those, too. Stay tuned :)

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Post by alextheparrot » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:34 AM UTC

The hosting of comments through Github is, interesting in a brilliant way. Maybe I've spent too much time triaging issues at work and I'm confusing Stockholm syndrome for affection.

Either way, this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing.

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Post by toothbrush » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

alextheparrot wrote: post #7

The hosting of comments through Github is, interesting in a brilliant way. Maybe I've spent too much time triaging issues at work and I'm confusing Stockholm syndrome for affection. Either way, this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing.

> this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for the kind words. It really means a lot to us.

> comments through Github is interesting in a brilliant way

Thank you! Honestly we're just cheap/lazy – we really wanted a super low-maintenance blogging platform, and static pages are amazing IMHO. This gave us "all" of both worlds, sort of.

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Post by fluential » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:44 AM UTC

alextheparrot wrote: post #7

The hosting of comments through Github is, interesting in a brilliant way. Maybe I've spent too much time triaging issues at work and I'm confusing Stockholm syndrome for affection. Either way, this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing.

You will like this one https://staticman.net/ same concept

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Post by Sevii » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:47 AM UTC

alixanderwang wrote: post #5

I actually feel like I've been hearing a ton about failures, though they're all preceded by "you never hear about failures", and proceeded by, "and then I took what I learned and succeeded". What I actually never hear about is stories of trying to build a SaaS, failing, and then just giving up and going back to being a salaryman and retiring after a few decades. It's either that these stories are rare -- which signal…

This kind of describes @patio11's career. I still want to build my own SAAS though.