👨💻 My solo developer stack to make a SaaS
Six month ago, I started working on monse.app, a simple and automated personal finances for normal people.
I'm a solo maker and I want to build this SaaS faster but also, making a good product that I can scale and work on in the future.
With that in mind, this is the stack that I choose, what do you think?
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I like your site, Laravel is my go to framework too!
Thanks!
I really like your stack and thanks for sharing.
Do you use both DO and AWS?
Right now, yes. I use AWS SES for all the transactional mails and DO as a hosting.
I think, in the future, I will move everything to AWS. ☺️
Interesting, but what stopped you from already moving it to AWS?
Nothing, it's just that I started the project with DO and Sendgrid, but I had some errors with the transactional emails. Just that 😅.
Fair enough :)
Hi, I see you are using Tailwind CSS, I wonder, how you design your SaaS? Do you have some tips for non-designing background developer like me :D ? Do you also use Figma in the process ? Thanks for sharing ! I love Vue JS!
Do you like monse design?
In my case, I take a lot of inspiration from other apps that a like and I have insists a lot until having something I like. As a developer, sometimes it's difficult for me to make a good and useful design. 🥲
I'm not using Figma or anything, right now. Maybe I should.
Wow. It's great man ! I saw you write yourself as designer, so I edit my comment, I'm pretty sure you design it by yourself. Your design is great ! I like monse design.
I might be interested in using your app, but just some quick feedback before I forget: there's no demo or screenshots of the features that might help convince me (I use Mint and Personal Capital).
"Address your customers biggest obstacles"
For me that would be: am I willing to give up 11 years+ of transaction history? The homepage doesn't answer that.
But as a fellow IH, I probably will check it out 👍
I think you made a very interesting point:
I have to work on a demo, because I have the feeling that when a user enters for the first time, not seeing a lot of data, the feeling is not quite good. This may also make more visitors want to open an account.
Thanks!