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Poll: Are you developing your SaaS App yourself ?

Hi team,

Just curious to know the following. Your answers in short bullet points please.

  1. Are you a developer?
  2. is your app market ready and in use ?
  3. time from idea to first customer
  4. biggest challenge
  5. your motivation driver ?

Churr

on April 2, 2020
  1. 1

    Amazing response guys. My reason for the poll is to identify if the founders/co-founders are the main developers of the app and so far i see 100% Developers.

    Also, trying to understand my failures better.

    I am not a developer, although I have a good understanding of logic, prototyping and business.

    A piece of advice to your developers. You have your superpowers. use it, Find yourself a Hustler though.

    Keep it coming..
    Churr

  2. 1
    1. Yes!
    2. No... =(
    3. Still waiting on that first customer, since I'm still working on the app.
    4. Marketing! I've built, launched, and abandoned a few apps so far that ultimately I failed by not marketing them well or well enough.
    5. Nodewood is something I'm actually going to use. Every time I start a new app, I have to waste far too much time working on basic SaaS functionality, so being able to start with Nodewood will save an immense amount of time. Hopefully (with proper marketing), other developers and SaaS founders will also be able to benefit from this!
  3. 1
    1. Yes, Full-Stack
    2. Two apps so:
      a) caseconverter.pro - It is market-ready but struggling to find users, but I do not mind because I built it for myself
      b) New project about work achievement tracking, not ready and not in use but plan on releasing soon

    a) I had the idea beginning of the last summer, customers are still out because of reshifting focus
    b) I had the idea last year at the end of the summer, started December 2019
    4.
    a) Getting customers now and motivation
    b) Writing it for now, but I guess also getting first customers even though I have colleagues and friends that would like to be beta users
    5.
    a) I just wanted to create something, mostly for the CV. Also, I hated all case converters out there
    b) I hated a process at my workplace and wanted my life to be easier because I forgot a lot of things from work

  4. 1
    1. Yes
    2. It's in beta.
    3. Not there yet after 2 weeks.
    4. Marketing, making sure product as approachable and value comes across.
    5. My current product will make it easier for myself (and others) to develop future projects quicker.
  5. 1
    1. Yes
    2. So close. Pushing for release this weekend.
    3. Hopefully less than a month
    4. Working out every edge case that causes things to break.
    5. I need it. I'm scratching my own itch for my business and I'm fairly certain others will want it.
  6. 1
    1. Yes
    2. Yes
    3. 2 weeks to first user, 3 months to first customer
    4. Getting in the right direction & show why its better then competitors
    5. Seeing the huge potential of the product and the market (I'm using my product for nearly all of my other projects)
  7. 1
    1. Yes, I am
    2. It's in use to try to be market ready 🤞
    3. I don't have any paying customer yet
    4. My biggest challenge is to keep moving forward after a full day of work
    5. My first motivation was to build it for one of my other activity
  8. 1
    1. Yes
    2. No - close to beta
    3. not launched - but a few prospects already
    4. time & infrastructure
    5. I want the product myself
  9. 1
    1. Yes
    2. Yes
    3. 7 Months
    4. 10-1000 customers
    5. Replacing Wordpress, I also love the idea of saving people time to use it to work on their product instead.
  10. 1

    1.) Yes
    2.) Market ready: yes. In use: no :(
    3.) Questionable b/c it's been delayed by a near-fatal crash, recovery, brain issues, etc.
    4.) Near-fatal crash, COVID+recession, and getting in front of buying decision makers.
    5.) I love data and I think it needs to be easier to store, easier to access, and easier to analyze.

    Any reason for the poll?