Create a SaaS product 🚀

What does it take to create a successful SaaS Product?

There's an infinite number of paths.
This is one of them 👇🧵 Image
🔸 Have a great idea

Find out which problem you want to solve.
Boil it down. Make it narrow and specific.

Don't be discouraged if your idea is already out there.
If there's already a market out there, see it as a confirmation that your product is needed.
🔸 Present your concept

Create wireframes and prototypes.

Now show the idea to the world.
You want confirmation that people are interested.

Show your family and friends.
Share on Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit.

🔸 Deploy a landing page

Create a website for your product/concept.

You can also follow up with Social Media pages on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

This is a great way to create initial public awareness.

🔸 Confirm your concept

Get feedback/confirmation about your concept.

Get people to your website.
Get them to answer surveys, signup for a newsletter, read your blogs.

All these are indicators, that there's interest in your concept.
🔸 Track, measure, and analyze

When you generate traffic to your webpage, make sure you track the demographics and behaviors of your visitors.

This step is crucially important and often overlooked.

🔸 Start building an MVP

At this point, you should have gathered enough information about the interest in your product to start building an MVP.

Focus on a small set of features that you know your users would like.

Now, start coding!
🔸 Promote your MVP

Plan your launch.
Write about it in your newsletter.
Create blog posts about it.

Announce your launch on pages like Betalist and Producthunt.

Run ads on Social Media to create awareness.
🔸 Serve your first early adopters

If everything goes right, you will acquire a small set of early adopters.

Make sure to do everything you can to serve them.
Don't scale yet.

Your software will be buggy and limited, so make sure your users are heard and appreciated.
🔸 Scale your product

By collaborating closely with your early adopters, you can slowly move your MVP into a fully-fledged SaaS Product.

Now it's time you start to scale.
Your tech stack should support this.

✨ Join a community

As an addition, I highly recommend joining some of the great indie communities we have out there.

Here's a couple of them:

👉 indiehackers.com
👉 100daysoftechstartup.com
👉 reddit.com/r/SaaS/
Creating, launching, and running a SaaS product is HARD.

It takes a lot of patience, courage, discipline, and skills.

Creating a product that helps people is also one of the most enriching and meaningful ways of using your skills as a software developer 🔥
Do you want a more in-depth guide on how to get your SaaS business started?

Then check out this 20 minutes crash-course 👇

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