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Ask HN: Examples of SaaS with Pure API/Minimal UI/UX?
Hey HN!
I really like creating tools (you can find some of them on my website in the profile), but I really hate doing UI/UX.
Are there any examples of, relatively, successful SaaS products that have minimal UI/UX?
Share your stories.
- ezekg 3y agoI doubt many of these exist. And if they do, they're probably small. I tried to go "API-only" for my SaaS. But I was met with abysmal onboarding conversion rates. And I tried to stick it out, too, improving documentation and DX where needed. Ultimately, I didn't get my first paying customer until I built a basic admin UI for the API. Even though a large percentage of my customers don't actually use the UI in their integrations or day-to-day, that initial friction of no UI when learning the ropes was killer.
- skwee357 3y agoThank you for sharing your perspective. That what I was afraid of.
- simantel 3y agoJust off the top of my head: Cloudflare, Twilio, Segment, SendGrid, dbt, Mongo, Vercel, Mapbox. All of these have some UI, but the core product is an API or infrastructure as a service.
- rozenmd 3y agoEven APIs have UI/UX concerns to consider. Think about error messages, docs, landing pages, etc.