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My homegrown saas application grosses ~$225k USD per year and growing. I started it in 2003 with $0 capital. I don't currently advertise, new business comes fr
by measure2xcut1x 13y ago
My homegrown saas application grosses ~$225k USD per year and growing. I started it in 2003 with $0 capital. I don't currently advertise, new business comes from seo and referrals. I am the sole developer/designer. (I use those titles loosely.)
What I have learned:
- Try to think about/plan for ten years out
- Make your application easy/pleasant/fun to use for you and your customers
- Limit third party dependencies at all junctures
- Log everything, it makes support and monitoring easy and fast
- Customers don't care what language/platform/db you use
- Have a support ticket system
- Have a coding convention/style and stick to it
- Life work balance is important, take vacations
- Run lots of backups
- Keep it simple and thank yourself later!
Of course YMMV. Hope that's helpful to someone starting out.
- moneyrich4 13y agoi have a question for you. i have a software product, and its so informative it would almost assist someone who copies it. any advice on planning 10 years out for a software product with this problem? planning x years out is not my strong suit. i've thought a bit about removing stuff that would help competitors but that would hurt my customers. i will probably do this though anyway.
- colanderman 13y agomoneyrich4, who is hellbanned, has a good question for you: i have a question for you. i have a software product, and its so informative it would almost assist someone who copies it. any advice on planning 10 years out for a software product with this problem? planning x years out is not my strong suit. i've thought a bit about removing stuff that would help competitors but that would hurt my customers. i will probably do this though anyway.