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stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Yep! Php ain't all that bad. I'm migrating earlybrd to laravel soon and enjoy it a lot. just poking a bit of fun because nerds like to hate on php.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Sure -- definitely true. But you can cover a TON of ground for b2b applications with basic CRUD operations.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Your product has to work and solve a real need. It isn't that hard to figure out how to create an app. Communicating how that product creates value for customers, marketing it and doing all of the rest of the grunt work is the hard, difficult bit.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

thanks!

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

I'd argue organic traction can also be engineered. You are mostly correct though. It's a skill that can be improved on for sure.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Bummer. Yeah, my idea was more along the lines of find my audience hanging out online and gently, subtly mention my product. Niche specific subreddits, forums (they still exist), Slack rooms, creating YouTube videos and others work pretty okay for initial traction for free.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Someone should make a contest to revive older tech like perl and make a profitable product from it. Use the oldest tech and see who can make the most valuable product

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Thank you! Inspired that I inspired you because I used to read this type of thing and thought I'd never do anything like it. I've thought about expanding to additional freelancing sites but have not thought about the RSS+notifications thing. I still have something eating away at me that it's just an "RSS feed reader" but maybe I'm wrong about that entirely.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Fuck vue.js. Launch your thing. EarlyBrd only used jinja2 templates with Flask. Now I'm migrating to laravel and only use Blade templates. Prove your thing out first because most users don't really care unless you're making some kind of real-time data analytics bs (in which case inqtel or other prob wants to send you some money)

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

This is good advice. Tech doesn't really matter. Yes, things will suck. But don't introduce complexity until you're absolutely sure it needs to be or that it will help you save time later on.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Correct. I stand by this decision.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

one million percent true.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

really?

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Thanks :-) I think my success is about equal to my work. It is hard to work on something when you're unsure if it will succeed.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

100%.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Awesome story. Automate a little bit of that away and find out how to engineer it.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

You're right and wrong. It can be that but I think SaaS can be nice because it puts some responsibility on the service provider to update things and add features. Or maybe we are moving to an MRR world and everyone is evil...

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Inception! Love it.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Yeah, you're probably not wrong. TBH, I used to not be a fan of FB ads because I thought paid ads were evil or something. I still haven't really used them but I've got some other projects I'm about to use them for.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Thanks! Yeah, I messed up. I wrote this in about an hour and posted it a few places not expecting the traffic I got!

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

I have a few other projects generating some revenue but nothing SaaS just yet. My exp doing this will definitely help in the future

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Get after it! It's not too late and you don't need the latest *js to make something valuable. The effort can be worth it!

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

the internet is the reason I wrote it. My failures are my own :-) thanks though

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

how do ya mean? I don't put out a lot of content so any feedback is good.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Just redirected to a temporary signup...tl;dr is that I was doing some funny stuff with Flask in a docker container...

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Thanks :-) Semi-failures are interesting as well

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Yeah, I am getting pwned pretty hard. Thanks for your kind words -- putting up a temp page now

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Thanks for your comments. I am OP :-)

My site went down for a bit while this is front-paged, but is back up now. Definitely I think it could be more of a success if I put more effort in (duh?).

Definitely there is a need to promote across multiple channels and ideally own your audience/create your own content because then you have traffic generation on demand.

The name is weird, I shipped anyways. earlybird.com and earlybrd.com were not free. I have spelled it out many times. It's annoying and sucks.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Copywriting is one tool of many in a bootstrapper's arsenal.

stetson I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich

Done, actually. I just thought it was a good title, did not mean to mislead or direct to something that wasn't relevant.