How to build a SaaS in a weekend
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Once you have an idea, releasing an MVP is easy! Learn how I did it, so you can do too.
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
This article shares specific, actionable advice for early-stage startups building dev tools in particular.
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Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups?
In this post, Jean Yang focusses on why we don’t see more high-growth startups focused on the kinds of languages and tools coming out of the PLDI community, the “deep tech” side of programming tools.
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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.
This article by Jason Cohen contains some great tips on how to get started with your (hobby) project.
With SLC, the outcomes are better and your options for next steps are better. If it fails, that’s OK, it’s a failed experiment. Both SLCs and MVPs will have that result because the whole point is to experiment. But if a SLC succeeds, you’ve already delivered business value and you have multiple futures available to you, none of which are urgent.
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Behind the scenes of Oh Dear!
In a post on IndieHackers my buddy Mattias Geniar shares the backstory behind our SaaS called Oh Dear!. He touches upon how we started out, how we use the cool stuff in the Laravel ecosystem, how we try to grow the service, what are future goals are and much more!
We both got fed up with existing tools that didn't fit our needs precisely. Most came close, but there was always something — whether settings or design choices — that we just didn't like. Being engineers, the obvious next step was to just build it ourselves! Oh Dear! launched in private beta earlier this year and has been running in production for a few months now. It's already generating over $1,500 per month.
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