I built an open-source SaaS app called BugTracker - with a step-by-step tutorial
Happy Friday IH!
I’m building BugTracker in public as a way to walk through all the topics required to build a SaaS (software as a service) product.
There are tons of technical resources out there for learning programming. But if you’re trying to build and launch a web app, you have to know a little bit about a lot of things.
It’s hard to know where to start.
My goal with BugTracker is twofold:
- Cover all the topics you need to know to build, deploy, and optimize your own SaaS app.
- Build reusable components so you don’t have to repeatedly reinvent the wheel as you go.
It’s built with my preferred tech stack of Ruby on Rails, Sass, and Bootstrap.
What features or general topics would you like to see covered next?
Any and all feedback is welcome!
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Love rails (and bootstrap)! Also, the whole concept is very intriguing, I like how you prepared nice pr's and commit messages. It gives a sense of how a real project is actually built, that's 💯.
What took me a while to understand is that it was aimed at experienced coders. The messaging made me think that it was for true beginners, but it seems to be for coders who want to use Dinosaas templates.
However once I got that, it all made more sense. Having pr's and commits in the open to make everything readily understandable. With your blog posts, it seems like it can give both a very high level view of things, but also allow to dig in implementation details.
I really like this new way of doing documentation, seems like it could work well to empower users.
Thanks for the feedback!
I'm glad the format resonated - I liked that too.
And great feedback about beginners vs experienced coders. Honestly, I'm still not sure who my audience is in that regard (admittedly, I don't really have one yet 😅). I want to target the beginner-to-intermediate developer, but I don't think this article really nailed that.