Everything I wish I'd known before starting Saasify 2 years ago.
I started working on Saasify two years ago with one clear goal in mind: to help developers like myself go independent.
I'm a reasonably experienced entrepreneur, so as I dove in, there are a lot of basics that I managed to do well such as:
The end result, however, left a lot to be desired. Saasify struggled to find product / market fit, we failed to raise capital, and I ended up getting pretty burnt out towards the end.
Looking back, there are lots of things that I wish I'd done differently.
in my previous post, I explored the feedback that Saasify received from VCs, and in this post, I'm going to focus on my key takeaways — e.g., the most important lessons that I wish I'd known when I was just starting out with Saasify two years ago.
Ultimately, Saasify failed to raise capital, and despite early validation in terms of developer signups and usage, we've failed to find product / market fit.
I'm very proud, however, to say that there are a handful of profitable products being run on Saasify by Indie Hackers from around the world, including Reacher and Notion2Site (ranging from ~$100-$500 MRR).
After about 18 months of bootstrapping Saasify, I was feeling pretty burnt out and my physical and mental health were at all time lows.
COVID certainly didn't help.
So I decided to take a much needed break away from Saasify to focus on myself and reflect on everything.
Given all of this feedback (and my more personal concerns), I've come to the conclusion that I will be fighting an uphill battle trying to build Saasify into a successful platform at scale.
<aside> 👉 I'm currently working to transition Saasify to a more open, community-led platform.
If you're interested in contributing to Saasify as an open source platform, please get in touch on our open slack.
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