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Please Roast My Idea: CodeAuditor

Plenty of SaaS products are hitting the market. But these products, either at launch or at sale points, are often not validated by any external resource. Rather, they are the brainchild of one or a few developers, often working at a frenetic pace.

Code reviews are essential for any developer to ensure that their code is top notch; why not do it for SaaS products, as a service?

CodeAuditor would be a platform designed to do this for you:

  1. Sign up
  2. Select the languages your product uses
  3. Schedule a call with a team of developers proficient in the languages you are using to go over every part of your code and give you feedback and suggestions about future implementations.

This could help avoid bugs, build more stable architecture, and prevent confusing architectural issues down the line.

Thoughts appreciated!

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    As the intention is pretty good, you need to know that most SaaS founders (and generally speaking, any startup founders who code) don't care much about the quality of their code. The point is to launch as soon as possible and as lean as possible. So, most of them also know that their code is shitty. The plan usually is:

    1. To launch bad architected, bad coded product as soon as possible
    2. See if there is a traction and market fit
    3. If so, raise money or/and find paid customers
    4. When budget allows rewrite the whole system from scratch.

    Also, there is another problem: when they create their product they understand every point in it. After refactoring it may not only be broken (yes it may happen too) but will be confusing for them.

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