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Starting a SaaS company is cheaper than you might think.
Of course, you need a good idea to fix a pain point for your future customers, and of course, you need to build the product, but many other topics can be covered easily.
Free & cheap resources to get you started:
Of course, you need a good idea to fix a pain point for your future customers, and of course, you need to build the product, but many other topics can be covered easily.
Free & cheap resources to get you started:
UI & Design:Not many developers are great at designing UIs, and that's okay.
Luckily there are CSS frameworks that will give your app a lot of visual structure from day one.
Bootstrap Foundation Material BulmaIf you need more flexibility:
Tailwind
Visuals:Stock footage can be quite expensive, but there are free resources too.
For stock photos:
unsplash .comFor stock videos:
pexels .comAnd for really nice illustrations I always recommend this open-source collection made by @NinaLimpi
undraw .co
Code:When you are building a product, you really don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Most of your app logic is available in the open-source space.
You want to focus on the pieces that are relevant to your domain.
A plethora of projects:
github .com gitlab .com
Infrastructure:These providers make generous gifts to deploy your app on their cloud infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform DigitalOcean Azure Netlify VercelYou can run your product for free for a long time. Isn't that amazing?
Domains:You can get your new domain for under 10$ a year.
There are many cheap providers out there, like these ones:
namecheap .com godaddy .comJust make sure you pick a company that will give you complete freedom to manage your DNS settings.
Very important!
Application Monitoring:When your backend service crashes you can always check the logs (I hope you have them
).But when your frontend has a bug the user will just leave the page and never tell you about it.
Start collecting errors & stack traces:
sentry .io
Emails:Emails are a crucial part of any SaaS product.
From the first welcome and the password reset process to your product-specific content, a lot of emails need to be sent.
Trust me, you don't want to run your own email server:
mailgun .com sendgrid .com
Support:When your customer struggles, you need to provide an accessible way to get in touch with you.
What better way than a (near) live chat?
Here's a nice integration that is for free and will increase your customer satisfaction:
crisp .chat
There's so much more out there that you can have for free or little money.
You don't need a factory, 50 employees on day one, or expensive machines.
Just your time, a laptop, and an idea.
Take advantage of all those great offerings.
Now, get started
You don't need a factory, 50 employees on day one, or expensive machines.
Just your time, a laptop, and an idea.
Take advantage of all those great offerings.
Now, get started
