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If you would start making SaaS today, what would you do?
I’m a developer in a company. When i start developing apps, my dream was creating my own business. Today it seems easy but when i try to do it I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START! Everyone says something and that’s confusing. I just need help how to start? If you…
I’m a developer in a company. When i start developing apps, my dream was creating my own business. Today it seems easy but when i try to do it I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START! Everyone says something and that’s confusing. I just need help how to start? If you would start making SaaS today, if you were me, what would you do?
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Learn how to validate a problem. Most founders start by building something. The best startups that I’ve worked with start by talking about “problems” and find something that businesses are so frustrated with that they’ll try anything to solve it.
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You are right. I have some ideas but how can I validate them? What do you for validation?
What do you for validation?
In short, I say there are three things to validate: - you found a real problem - there’s interest in your solution - people love your solution High level that’s “customer-problem fit”, “problem-solution fit”, and “product market fit”. They things that most founders get wrong here is having confidence in these without real evidence. If someone says, “I found a great problem to solve” you always have to ask for the evidence because 9/10 times there’s no objective evidence just a lot of passion and opinion. The first thing to get good at is how to investigate problems and document real evidence that there’s a problem worth solving. For example, if you have any idea to sell to restaurants don’t go in and pitch them your idea, write down the problem you are solving for them then go talk with them about their problem - without even mentioning your solution
Best advice ever by the way 🙏🏻
Every successful business starts by solving a real problem. Find a problem that's worth solving. Not just one that you think exists. Validate that it's painful enough that people are willing to pay for a solution. If customers won't pay, you don't have a business. The best problems to solve are usually in an industry you already know well. You'll understand the pain points better, have easier access to potential customers, and be able to validate your assumptions faster. Once you've identified the problem, build an MVP. A good MVP shouldn't take more than four weeks to build. If it's taking months, you're probably building a full product instead of the smallest version needed to test your idea. Your goal isn't to build something perfect. Your goal is to learn whether customers actually want it.
Find a problem. Something that you really hate doing. Then - try to automate it. That's what I'd do :)
a problem i had in depth understanding of where i could fix it. I always feel its a lost cause to hunt for an idea. Now a problem could be all the current services cost too much or it could be as in depth as this causes millions of dollars of waste every month and i know how to fix it. I'm in devops/sre what currently sucks in my world is the cost of getting notified of outages is way too much per seat for a basic calendar app that calls/pages/notifies you.
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