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How did you get the idea that it is now your business?
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sussbuzz
same as the title
It solves my own problem. I like plants, but I saw I was spending too mcuh time researching about them and trying to know how to take care of them.
That's why I build chooseyourplant.com, so people can discover new plants easily and know how to take care of them.
Needed a product that would call me when some of the stocks in my portfolio met certain conditions.
Ended up joining the founding team and helped them build it out further. Thus: stockalarm.io was born.
What is the data source for the stock prices?
IEX - Alphavantage - Coinmarketcap - cryptocompare.
I saw more and more people on Instagram posting screenshots of their own or other people's tweets and so Pikaso (https://pikaso.me) was born.
I realized that every time I started a new project, I had to repeat the same tasks - project setup, user management, subscription/billing, etc. Instead of figuring that out every time, I started working on Nodewood - a SaaS starter kit that not only I could use, but others could use to save weeks or months of time when rolling a new SaaS project.
I'm still in development, but it has been very rewarding so far. It's forced me to solve a lot of problems "the right way" instead of "the MVP way", since more people than I will be using this, and telling them "well, just edit the DB I guess" isn't really a solution.
Honestly, since I've gotten started, it's changed the way I hear a lot of news from bootstrap podcasts and blogs. When a founder celebrates the fact that they just added, say, the ability for users to get a list of all their invoices for the last year, I boggle. That's such a waste of time! Think of what core business features could have been improved if they didn't have to spend time writing basic SaaS functionality! It's wild.
Very cool. So do you sell the codebase or is it a no-code solution to attach to a Saas product that you are building with code?
Selling the codebase, definitely. This is for people who don't want to have to reach for and configure webpack, babel, express, etc and then build users, subscriptions, all that code on their own, but do want to have a codebase to continue from. No-code solutions are great, so long as your business falls within their very strict offerings. Once you need more than they offer, you have to branch out from them anyway, which genearally = code.
Yeah makes a lot of sense. I know there are open source options, but I never find myself using them and end up rolling my own. I've never purchased a template before either, but for my recent project I built everything from scratch and took a lot of extra time. I'm wondering now if it makes sense to buy something to reduce to the time-to-market. If you're open to sharing, I would be curious how much revenue you're seeing from Nodewood.
I don't mind sharing at all - I'm still developing it, so the number is $0. =)
That said, when I was doing market research, I've identified a couple similar products that have admitted to selling in the hundreds of copies, with very similar prices, so the market is certainly there.
I repackaged something I was already doing (video editing) into a productized service creating done-for-you social videos (Social Video Studio --> http://socialvideo.studio). The productized service book (http://productizebook.co/) was super helpful in helping me think about my offer and how I could pull off an unlimited monthly subscription model.
The original version of our product was a dynamic way to manage and issue employee stock options. This was because my co-founder had used a work-for-equity system to bootstrap his previous company (which went onto be admitted to YC) and believed it was a more powerful product than what he was actually working on. We've changed a bit since starting, but that's how we got started!
I was working on another company and had the idea.
so how is your business doing?
good