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As someone who took more than a year off to build his SaaS - the days of stitching together a prototype at night are pretty much over. You need to be an incredi

As someone who took more than a year off to build his SaaS - the days of stitching together a prototype at night are pretty much over. You need to be an incredible hustler and have a really good insight into a desperate business need. Customers today expect polish and few bugs right out of the gate. I spent months on polish alone. If you don't, your product is going to be savaged like this: "Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s New Photo-Sharing App Has a Design From the Stone Age" https://gizmodo.com/marissa-mayer-new-app-shine-photo-sharing-yahoo-design-1851368662 https://gizmodo.com/marissa-mayer-new-app-shine-photo-sharin...

ryanwaggoner 2y ago
How’s your SaaS doing now, if you don’t mind my asking?
- renegade-otter 2y ago
  friendlyfire.tech is pretty much dormant :) The benefit of being bootstrapped, of course, is that it's designed with costs in mind, so I don't spend more on hosting than I do on my Netflix subscription.
AlienRobot 2y ago
Before: I had no idea this app existed. Now: I know this app existed. Having no polish can't be worse than having no app.
ipaddr 2y ago
The fact that writer Jody Serrano is trying to take down another women Marissa has very little to do with polish of the app. Look at OpenAI design.. it's not much better and it doesn't matter. That article follows a long standing tradition of women attacking other women in power based on appearance to try to elevate themselves. No insight on polishing trends can be learned here.
llmblockchain 2y ago
> ... the days of stitching together a prototype at night are pretty much over. You need to be an incredible hustler and have a really good insight into a desperate business need. I'll take that as a compliment.. as someone that took nights to build a SaaS product solo into a multi-million dollar business (and still do it solo).

ryanwaggoner 2y ago

How’s your SaaS doing now, if you don’t mind my asking?

renegade-otter 2y ago
friendlyfire.tech is pretty much dormant :) The benefit of being bootstrapped, of course, is that it's designed with costs in mind, so I don't spend more on hosting than I do on my Netflix subscription.

AlienRobot 2y ago

Before: I had no idea this app existed. Now: I know this app existed. Having no polish can't be worse than having no app.

ipaddr 2y ago

The fact that writer Jody Serrano is trying to take down another women Marissa has very little to do with polish of the app. Look at OpenAI design.. it's not much better and it doesn't matter. That article follows a long standing tradition of women attacking other women in power based on appearance to try to elevate themselves. No insight on polishing trends can be learned here.

llmblockchain 2y ago

> ... the days of stitching together a prototype at night are pretty much over. You need to be an incredible hustler and have a really good insight into a desperate business need. I'll take that as a compliment.. as someone that took nights to build a SaaS product solo into a multi-million dollar business (and still do it solo).