50% of people want to become front-end devs…

…and the remaining 50% think how to set up a business based on subscriptions .

But please, do not ask me how I counted that.

I'm doing some research, and it seems to me that I have a perfect fit here.

I. Intro

At the beginning of the year, I launched a SaaS template/theme builder, which speeds up the work of front-end developers.

https://bootstrapshuffle.com (#1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (1,086 votes) and we were on the Hacker News homepage)

Over the past months, I've been working on making the technology independent of the CSS framework and of the component library.

A few days ago I launched a new project, using the same technology, but working with Bulma CSS Framework (https://bulma.dev)

There are as many styles & libraries of components as creative people in the world.

I'm working on this to give the opportunity to launch any person an analogical project on my infrastructure and technology, but with your own domain, user base, component library, and styles, your own texts on the website, etc.

So you deal with the creative part and I deal with back-office. You sell the product to front-ends and me to people who want to have their SaaS.

II. What can you do with such a project?

• You can make money from subscriptions (e.g. like me making money from Bootstrap Shuffle and Bulma Builder)

• You can share the tool for free to collect leads (e.g. enter e-mail to download the project)

• You can build a new tool using the style & interface builder editor
  (For example, you create a marketing automation tool, but you do not want to create a landing page builder from scratch)

• You can use as an internal tool in the company
  (e.g. you have your own design system and a library of components for your own / customer projects)

III. Who would want to make money from subscriptions?

• Companies that have UX / Design / Frontend resources and want to use free forces in the team (in particular, UX / Design and software houses)

• Designers-influencers with certain reach but monetizing it only in the form of likes under Dribbble concepts.

• Freelancers already creating static HTML templates and selling them on marketplaces, but wanting to work over their own brand.

• Entrepreneurs, marketers who do not create design systems themselves, but know who they can outsource to and know how to sell them at a profit.

IV. Planned offer

I plan to have the following two offers:

Option A. 50/50 revenue split

• Only Paid SaaS option
• 50/50 distribution of revenues
• My branding ("Powered by Shuffle.dev")
• Review and acceptance of selected partners (minimum number of components, updates, customer support)
• The need to participate in the sale of packages where people who buy the service in other projects "Powered by Shuffle.dev" also get access to your services.
• You do not have any technology costs for a start. But still, you can run your own SaaS on your domain, with your content.

Option B. $999 / monthly

• Whitelabel
• Any form of tool sharing (subscriptions, lead collection, internal tool)
• It's your business so if you want you can write to your users that you do not like them

The best method of verification will be launching sales and I will do exactly that, regardless of the feedback here. However, the content on the landing page will be created according to what I wrote above, so I am looking for preliminary feedback before launching :)

Would you be interested in launching such a SaaS product under your own domain and with your own creative part?

I.e., looking at https://bootstrapshuffle.com and https://bulma.dev, are you able to say that (if you had this technology) in terms of visual (landing page, component library, and styles) and marketing could you do it better?

I invite you to discuss here or at dawid@shuffle.dev. In general, what do you think about creating SaaS for other people who want to run their own SaaS?