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Show HN: Finally launched the first version of my first ever SaaS app

4 points by mundia 6y ago

mundia 6y ago
Finally after weeks and weeks of nonstop coding and iterating I can proudly say I've launched the very first version of feedpiper. It is now available for anyone to use as a feedback collection and management tool. It feels great to finally have something out in the world which provides a service to people who use it. The next coming weeks will involve a lot of updates to feedpiper to add lots of features to make it even better than it already is. Here is a list of a few things I set in place from the start that I know will be of great use now that the app is in production ; 1.Automated Integration Tests Every piece of code that I've written in feedpiper is associated with an integration test, no code was ever written that doesn't function to make an integration test pass. I focused heavily on integration tests as opposed to unit tests because integration tests simulate greatly how a user would interact with my app whereas unit tests are too coupled with the implementation details. Having automated tests will greatly help me avoid annoying bugs now that feedpiper is officially in production. 2.Using a CI/CD approach to app deployment I deployed feedpiper to vercel (previously zeit) which makes continuous deployment extremely easy and fast as it integrates with github very well, a simple git push and vercel will automatically build and deploy my app. Being a first time saas founder and this being my first product that I've put out in the world is both exciting and frightening. I have a lot of features that I have planned to be added to the app over the coming weeks but knowing full well that the app will be judged based on the few features it has right now, that is the frightening part. But i will keep releasing a lot of updates till I get feedpiper to have all the features i have planned for it.
nonsapreiche 6y ago
my feed: put a space after the comma "store/course,or"
- mundia 6y ago
  Thankyou for the feedback

4 points by mundia 6y ago

Finally after weeks and weeks of nonstop coding and iterating I can proudly say I've launched the very first version of feedpiper. It is now available for anyone to use as a feedback collection and management tool. It feels great to finally have something out in the world which provides a service to people who use it. The next coming weeks will involve a lot of updates to feedpiper to add lots of features to make it even better than it already is. Here is a list of a few things I set in place from the start that I know will be of great use now that the app is in production ; 1.Automated Integration Tests Every piece of code that I've written in feedpiper is associated with an integration test, no code was ever written that doesn't function to make an integration test pass. I focused heavily on integration tests as opposed to unit tests because integration tests simulate greatly how a user would interact with my app whereas unit tests are too coupled with the implementation details. Having automated tests will greatly help me avoid annoying bugs now that feedpiper is officially in production. 2.Using a CI/CD approach to app deployment I deployed feedpiper to vercel (previously zeit) which makes continuous deployment extremely easy and fast as it integrates with github very well, a simple git push and vercel will automatically build and deploy my app. Being a first time saas founder and this being my first product that I've put out in the world is both exciting and frightening. I have a lot of features that I have planned to be added to the app over the coming weeks but knowing full well that the app will be judged based on the few features it has right now, that is the frightening part. But i will keep releasing a lot of updates till I get feedpiper to have all the features i have planned for it.

nonsapreiche 6y ago

my feed: put a space after the comma "store/course,or"

mundia 6y ago
Thankyou for the feedback