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[US-based] Cloud management & devops software? Any product/sales folks passionate about this space?

Over the last several years, I have built a SaaS subscription management platform (binds together authentication - Auth0, billing - Chargebee/Stripe, and cloud provisioning - Azure/AWS). It's an 'easy button' API for companies who want to build SaaS apps, but don't want to (or can't) build the multi-tenant subscription management themselves. It sits on top of existing APIs, and doesn't try to replace these services - it federates them into a clean API, plus some secret sauce.

(Example use case: a vendor's application can define cloud resources which are auto-provisioned when a customer subscribes - i.e. their own private S3 bucket for storing uploaded content. Subscriptions are auto-created in billing service, and cloud storage costs can be auto-inserted into customer invoices, plus margin.)

This is my second startup; having bootstrapped and sold my first one. Initially I was full-time on it, but ended up getting a day job, and pushing it to the back burner. I've kept it up to date technically, refined it many times, and written some additional platform services (like user-gen content management) on top of it for other projects.

I recently got one customer for it, so I know there's still value here, and nothing else exactly like it on the market.

Now I'd like to put the pedal down, build it into a fundable company by extending this upstream and integrate CI/CD deployments into my SaaS app publishing model, add more cloud provisioning, more API integrations, support both multi-tenant and private tenant deployments, and tie in better cost management and consumption pricing models for vendors.

Anyone passionate about this space, and interested to partner? Before getting additional devs, I can use help on the sales/product side to find potential design partners and customers, and working towards better product market fit to define the future roadmap.

Folks with experience building commercial SaaS services or DevOps tooling would be helpful. I'm a CTO, by day, and would like to find bizdev/product/sales partners (or co-founders) to peer with.

Thanks,
Kirk

on February 11, 2020
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    Thanks for sharing. For cloud management and I always recommend everyone to process fusion https://www.processfusion.com/en/. They are providing best quality services.

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    Hi Kirk, sounds like fun. Let's chat!

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    Hey Kirk - this is more or less exactly me - if you'd like to talk I can at least share my experience growing my own set of services that are (at least from your description) non-competing.

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    Hey
    I was really excited about this space and would have loved to come onboard but quite late now as I already started working on something else. My co-founder left halfway that's why couldn't move forward. All the best it's really a tough space. You might want to check buddy.works and circleci.com