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Monetise your app idea. Set up your SaaS business easily.
When you think about ways to pay — and get paid — for an app, it’s natural for subscriptions to spring to mind. It’s the norm; it’s standard — it’s what most people do. And it’s predictable — so why wouldn’t you want that, right?
But what if you feel like the value of your app doesn’t quite match your pricing model? Even though you’re receiving recurring revenue, you’re adding new features or functionality all the time…so you could feel like you’re undercharging a bit, especially if you’ve been making these enhancements for a while.
And what is the cost of these enhancements? Does the cost (or investment) of your app now mean you’re not making money? Nobody wants that. And we know you’re probably thinking that if you charge more — for whatever reason — you could lose your customers or drive away potential ones…
Striking the right balance between providing value to customers and being properly compensated for that value is crucial for the long-term success of your SaaS business. To help you get the most value from your SaaS product, we’ve looked at seven SaaS commercial models and come up with the benefits and drawbacks of each. This will help by showing there’s more than one way to commercialise your app. You don’t have to do what most people do.
- Freemium Model
The freemium pricing strategy is widely used by SaaS businesses, inspired by the successful examples of Slack, Evernote, and Dropbox. You provide your customers with a free product with the option to upgrade to paid packages for additional features and benefits.
This pricing model basically incorporates tiered pricing, where the paid packages are complemented by a free tier aimed at entry-level users. However, the free tier is limited in certain aspects, encouraging users to upgrade once they reach a certain usage level.
Read full blog post here: https://www.salable.app/blogs/7-saas-pricing-models-which-one-is-right-for-your-business
There are many varied ways to interact with the Salable platform, each with their own sets of functionality and recommended uses. In this guide, we’re going to be looking at the Salable Command Line Interface (CLI) and exploring how it can help you.
What is it?
As mentioned above, the CLI is a way of interfacing with Salable and performing actions via a terminal (command line) interface. So, rather than using the web interface to, for example, create an API key - you can run the following command:
salable create api-key
Because the CLI gives you programmatic access to the Salable platform, it can also be utilised in a number of more “automated” usages - such as being a step in a CI/CD pipeline or being utilised as part of a Bash shell script.
How can I access it?
In order to get started with the Salable CLI, you need to install it:
npm install -g @salable/cli
read full blog here: https://www.salable.app/blogs/salable-cli-your-gateway-to-getting-started
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So, you've got a killer app idea or want to start a SaaS startup, huh? That's awesome! But before you dive into the code, let's break down the building blocks of a successful business in our digital-driven world. Ready to boil it down to five simple steps? Let's go…
- Spot a market need
There's no point building something nobody wants, right? Your golden ticket is finding a need that's currently underserved or entirely off the radar. So go ahead: explore, research, and nose around for gaps that your future oh-so-incredible product can tackle. Basically, you need to scratch an itch nobody else is reaching.
- Craft your value proposition
Now that you've found the problem, your product is swooping in to save the day! This is exactly what your potential customers need to know. So, make it loud - and clear. This is your value proposition. Tell them why your product is the superhero they've been waiting for.
- Whip up a minimum viable product (MVP)
With your value proposition at hand, it's MVP time! This is basically the "lite" version of your grand idea. The purpose here? To release something quickly, test it out, learn the ropes, and keep tweaking your product until it fits your customers like a glove.
- Get your monetisation strategy straight
Let's not beat around the bush - you want your app or SaaS to rake in some cash. And for that, you need an effective, well-thought-out strategy on how you'll monetise. Are you thinking of subscriptions? In-app purchases? Ads? Find the sweet spot that works for your business and adds value for your customers.
- Measure, dig deep, make it better
And now, we're onto keeping your dreams growing. How? By keeping track and learning from the right metrics! Measure everything you can: user behaviour, system performance, cash flow - you name it. The more you know, the more you can keep improving and making better decisions.
Building a successful business is no small feat. And chances are there'll be plenty of bumps in the road. But that’s okay; you'll need to work hard, but if you focus and dedicate yourself to delivering value to your customers, you'll reach many wins before you know it.
In fact, this is how Salable was born. We had an idea, followed the above five steps, and here we are today. It certainly didn't happen overnight, but we got there. And so can you! And the best bit is you can run a successful business using Salable. It's the reason we built what we did! So people like you can come to us, and we can do all the heavy lifting for you! Check us out, it's worth it, we promise. https://www.salable.app/
PlanetScale offers many features but one of the most powerful and interesting ones is the ability to branch databases and their schemas. We can use this feature to implement updates and changes to a database schema in a controlled way while also being able to test changes in an isolated environment that mirrors production.
However, while that all sounds amazing (and it is), there is one rather large annoyance with it and that’s the limit of database branches you’re allowed to use at once with PlanetScale. Currently, unless you opt for their enterprise level plan you’re only allowed 5 development branches. This means if you’re in the situation of needing more than 5 database branches at once but you don’t need any of the other features offered by the higher plans, you get a rather large bill just for more branches which isn’t the most ideal or economic solution.
Our Solution
To get around this limitation, we decided to create new database branches only for certain git branches because after all not all git branches you work on will require their own database branch with a unique schema. Instead, only certain git branches will require their own database branch, these are the ones that change or manipulate the schema in some way that would cause conflicts with other git branches that don’t have those changes.
So, what we do is give the power to the developer to control if they need a new database branch or not by how they name their git branch. This means there are three paths they can go down.
Full blog here: https://www.salable.app/blogs/tech-blog-6-how-to-automatically-create-planetscale-database-branches-from-bitbucket-pipelines
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