Don't let anyone fool you!

A SaaS App can be quite simple.

Here are a few rules that help you make the right decisions 🚀🧵
💡 Mindset (1/2)

The SaaS space is a mature, highly commoditized one where you can cherry-pick a lot of what is needed from a pool of mature services and ready-to-use modules and use well-established, common best practices.
💡 Mindset (2/2)

Just don't lock yourself into short-lived technologies or dependencies.

And let your team only build stuff that sets you apart from the competition and/or builds up real value in your startup.

Buy everything else (the commodities)
💡 Features

✅ Don't build stuff that end users don't need. Validate your product ideas using UX Research, Design Thinking.

✅ Build the first version with the idea in mind that end-users will get enough value to get them to use it.
💡 SaaS Modules & Services (1/2)

Pick and choose your sub-solutions depending on your needs.

There are many seasoned people in SaaS technology who can help you pick and choose!
💡 SaaS Modules & Services (2/2)

Don't think that your team could ever write a better solution for each of these:

✅ SaaS subscription management & billing
✅ Identity / authentication
✅ Transactional emails
✅ Analytics and Reporting
✅ PDF Generation
✅ Chat
✅ Etc.
💡 Technology (1/3)

✅ Don't overdo frontend complexity. You're not Twitter, so you don't need everything Twitter did.

✅ Don't overdo backend complexity. You might at some point need Microservices, but you'll almost never need them until much, much later.
💡 Technology (2/3)

✅ Focus on building a good, lightweight PWA. Dismiss the idea that you need separate native apps for mobile, until you would really need it.

✅ Create a 100% static, separated frontend. This will help you in many ways.
💡 Technology (3/3)

✅ Embrace the Cloud. Developing Cloud-Native solutions was never easier and it takes a lot of burden away.

#startups #SaaS #Cloud #PWA #javascript #pyton #Node #CodeNewbies
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📈🛠️ Creating a SaaS backbone ?

Here's a checklist of measurable steps to follow 👇
✅ Define your target audience & value proposition

🎯 Knowing your target audience and value proposition is key to building a successful business. Define them clearly to guide your product development and marketing efforts.
✅ Develop a minimum viable product (MVP)
✅ Test, iterate & gather feedback

🚀 Develop the core features that solve your users' problems and get it in front of them.

👥 Gather feedback and iterate to create a better product.
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