Week 0: Launching my SaaS for free in a market where indie hackers are underserved
I just pushed the final changes to complete my beta launch of GuideSail.
What?
A tool for building product tours and demos without writing the code for it. Super simple integration using a chrome extension.
- Create guides visually
- Implement into your app/webpage with a single function
- Affordable and lightweight for small/medium sized SaaS
- Analytics for tracking who has seen your guides built in (saves a ton of coding time)
Why?
Lots of tools could benefit from an in-app tour to onboard their users. It helps reduce churn and customer support tickets. But there are two major problems with existing solutions:
- Existing solutions like Intercom, Userpilot, Appcues, aren't built for small-medium SaaS tools. They're too complex and way out of budget for most indiehackers (starting ~$250/month).
- The alternative is to build your own solution, but this requires a lot of time to code something from scratch. And making slight changes requires digging back into your code to make changes.
Currently GuideSail is in beta, I'm ironing out the final features and I plan to launch in January. Until then the tool is completely free, and all the beta users will be locked in at preferential pricing for lifetime.
So excited to see there are already people interested and signing up for the beta.
I will be updating on indiehackers and on twitter @haseeb_sdqi 3 times a week.
