7 July 2026, 02:27 PM
The daily posts on this forum, where many of you are launching your SaaS concepts and seeing remarkable success, captivate me. I have a background in software engineering, so I can attest to the time and work needed for these kinds of projects. I'm interested in your methods for developing a SaaS because of this.
How do you verify your concepts before making a firm commitment? Are you developing your MVP with low-code or no-code tools? As lone proprietors, how do you manage both the front-end and back-end elements, including hosting, security, authentication, and frameworks like React, Vue.js, Django, and Node.js?
It all seems so overwhelming. What are your strategies and suggestions for how to build saas application?
You’ll have more luck picking a boring market that already has product–market fit.
Not AI prompt tools. Not a crypto-powered task manager. Just a market where people already pay for solutions, complain about those solutions, and are actively looking for better ones.
That’s where the gold is.
If I were starting over, I’d spend my first week doing deep research:
Make a list of the top 5–10 tools in a specific vertical (like support tools, internal dashboards, CRMs)
Study their landing pages and pricing
Dig through their review sites, Twitter mentions
Reach out to a few customers and just ask what they love, hate, and wish they could change
Look for patterns in the complaints — recurring pain points. Pick a few of the biggest ones and build something that’s intentionally simple and focused on just those.
You don’t need to create a new market or invent something never seen before.
You just need to slot into an existing one with a better experience, better customer service, and enough clarity to win over early users.
Every user is worth more than just their monthly payment.
They bring ideas, context, edge cases, and sometimes even your next best feature idea — just not in the form you expected.
One of the most powerful things you can do early on is create a tight feedback loop. Make it easy for users to leave feedback, and make them feel comfortable doing it. Whether it’s a short email reply, a message in your widget, or a public suggestion — the feedback is gold.
I built UserJot to solve exactly this. It gives you a clean public board with upvotes, categories, and a way for users to see what’s being worked on. You can use any tool really, but the key is: make your customers part of the process.
And don’t just listen to compliments.
“The UX is confusing.”
“I didn’t realize I could click that.”
“This integration broke.”
Those messages matter far more than “I love this!”
Sometimes your best product decisions come from the smallest friction points.
How do you verify your concepts before making a firm commitment? Are you developing your MVP with low-code or no-code tools? As lone proprietors, how do you manage both the front-end and back-end elements, including hosting, security, authentication, and frameworks like React, Vue.js, Django, and Node.js?
It all seems so overwhelming. What are your strategies and suggestions for how to build saas application?
You’ll have more luck picking a boring market that already has product–market fit.
Not AI prompt tools. Not a crypto-powered task manager. Just a market where people already pay for solutions, complain about those solutions, and are actively looking for better ones.
That’s where the gold is.
If I were starting over, I’d spend my first week doing deep research:
Make a list of the top 5–10 tools in a specific vertical (like support tools, internal dashboards, CRMs)
Study their landing pages and pricing
Dig through their review sites, Twitter mentions
Reach out to a few customers and just ask what they love, hate, and wish they could change
Look for patterns in the complaints — recurring pain points. Pick a few of the biggest ones and build something that’s intentionally simple and focused on just those.
You don’t need to create a new market or invent something never seen before.
You just need to slot into an existing one with a better experience, better customer service, and enough clarity to win over early users.
Every user is worth more than just their monthly payment.
They bring ideas, context, edge cases, and sometimes even your next best feature idea — just not in the form you expected.
One of the most powerful things you can do early on is create a tight feedback loop. Make it easy for users to leave feedback, and make them feel comfortable doing it. Whether it’s a short email reply, a message in your widget, or a public suggestion — the feedback is gold.
I built UserJot to solve exactly this. It gives you a clean public board with upvotes, categories, and a way for users to see what’s being worked on. You can use any tool really, but the key is: make your customers part of the process.
And don’t just listen to compliments.
“The UX is confusing.”
“I didn’t realize I could click that.”
“This integration broke.”
Those messages matter far more than “I love this!”
Sometimes your best product decisions come from the smallest friction points.