Built and launched my SAAS MVP in 2 weeks (story)

Hey fellow Indiehackers,

I wanted to tell my story of how I spent the past 2 weeks building and launching a MVP SAAS product.

I've had a goal to build a SAAS product for a very long time. I've spent 2-3 years thinking about it, coming up with ideas, over-analysing and reading about other peoples successes, thinking to myself "one day I'll do that".

Two weeks ago, I realised that if I was ever going to make this dream happen, I ironically needed to stop dreaming and start doing! Enough messing around, it was go time. It was a Friday and I said to myself, this weekend I am going to build and launch a SAAS product.

Well, come Sunday I had made a lot of progress but I had a little way still to go. The product I was building was essentially 3 different pieces as it includes a WordPress plugin, membership website and backend service worker. I was still fired up to get the product finished though.

In the past, it's usually at this point that I'd give up and I knew it. It would be a convenient time to use my 3 kids or full time work as an excuse to not continue. But I pushed through and constantly reminded myself of the end goal.

The next week and a bit after the initial build weekend was hard. I worked a number of late nights and had to try balance family life, work and finishing the product.

I'm proud to say that yesterday I launched Watchtower. It's not perfect and there are a few kinks but it's live and people are signing up.

To throw a cherry on top, I got my first paying customer!

My hope is that if you're reading this and are in the same position as I was 2 weeks ago, that you find motivation in this and build your product. And so my question to you is this, what are you building and launching this coming weekend?