SAAS basics 101 for low IQ people
I'm writing this from the perspective of owning a *micro* B2B saas - a VERY niche software.
Personally, prefer to mas market/ consumer
For example if @BowTiedOx says "I want to build the next instagram or Ebay" , probably NGMI
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Now if @BowTiedOx says "I want to build a SAAS for bodybuilders/coaches to order blood work and track results over time and charge $9.99 per month for that + a small mark up on blood tests ordered through the SAAS"
Then that sounds like a much higher probability of success.
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Personally I would recommend B2B SAAS market that is > $100 a month sub.
Gives you way more cash for marketing/ profit/ customer support etc.
But that's just personal preference. The most important part is to be GUARANTEED demand.
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Don't reinvent the wheel. if you have no ideas then look around the industry you work inside already and look at *pain* points that cost a lot of money either in lost revenue or overhead/ expenses.
Talk to business owners. Ask them "what do you do inside of excel now?"
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The more successful people are, the bigger the problems they have to solve.
Again if possible, I prefer B2B with > $100 a month pain points.
A higher quality customer than charging $3.99 per month to a consumer.
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Now that you have your idea (and this is the MOST important part of the process.)
Spend ALL your time on the idea/ product/ what pain point you fix.
Don't spend more than 10 min on logo/ branding or NGMI
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Then buy balsamiq.com/ and start rapidly prototyping :
Login screen
Register flow/ screen
Dashboard
Settings
Integrations page
All other screens of your specific SAAS
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You will send this wireframe to a designer.
They will use figma.com or similar to transfer this wireframe to an ACTUAL prototype.
(helpful to have designer work on brand colors/ fonts/ button shape / design basic idea finished first.)
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Once designer has finished the prototype of the SAAS, I would take this to businesses and pre-sell to them.
if you can get $10-20k of revenue then your SAAS is guaranteed to be successful IMO. and at this point you have only invested weeks of time and $3-4k of design
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then you will send to your full stack developer.
full stack = both front end / back end developer.
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I would ask developer to send status updates every day/ every other day and pay by the project if possible.
it's mandatory that you own the github/gitlab instance they will push the code too. (and the stripe account obv. they integrate with for payments)
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Ask developer to document things very well, and use templates for everything they possibly can.
I would pay a bit extra to a senior dev you trust to do code audit half way through project and at the end.
and it does NOT go twice as fast if you hire 2x the developers.
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your ROLE is "product manager" at this point if you are not technical founder.
I use Clickup.com to manage all features with all devs that we are pushing.
it's free or close to it for all versions.
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Once devs are done then get users onboard and work out any bugs with them then start selling ASAP
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We are scaling SAAS now so I will writing MUCH more in detail about SAAS and selling it in newsletter (sub on my profile)
@SaaSCapo is MUCH more advanced than me so this is just rough basics and he can add a lot info than me.
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