7 opinionated tools I use to Go To Market Faster. What tools do you use?
Rishi Uttam
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TOC;
1. Do not roll your own Auth
2. Do use what you know.
3. Serverless + JAM stack Hosting.
4. Database - Keep it simple stupid.
5. Don't waste more than 45 mins on logo design.
6. Do spend at least a week on your domain name.
7. Transactional & marketing email.
Bonus Tip : Collect dollars only when your fake billing page breaks.
1/ ❌Maybe don't roll your own Auth this time.
As much fun as it was the last time around, there's only so much JWT's vs Sessions & Cookies Vs Local storage arguments you can have in one day. Use one of the big boys.
2/ ✅Do use what you know.
Don't waste time learning that new tech stack you saw on http://fireship.io. Instead, go with what you know to get traction quick.If it's Rails, then go with it; if it's Django, perfect. In my case, Vue 2.x SPA with pre-rendering. Just no PHP. 🤭
3/ Serverless + JAM stack Hosting.
Load fast in 2022, sub 2 second load times is certainly doable. Managing servers is HARD coupled with SaaS marketing and two crying kids. Focus on the fronty part of your site, host on a s3 bucket or cloudflare pages, netlify, vercel etc.
4/ Database - Keep it simple.
- MongoDB Realm.
- Supabase
- Fauna DB
- Hosted SQL Lite
Let them do the heavy lifting, scale, inexpensive.
5/ ❌Don't waste more than 45 mins on logo design
- No Logo just use a 24px font size and tags and voila.
- Logology ask for Lucie she's amazing with an eye for design. 10 mins svg and eps logo done.
- NameCheap Logo Maker, formally Launchaco nice free option and done quick
6/ ✅ Your domain name isn't that important
Finding your unicorn domain name, has almost zero effect on the success of your business.
Use tools like:
DomainR Scans several registries at once with a really nice UI.
Cloudflare Register No markups.
Hover - No ads, no upsells
7/ ✅ Transactional & Marketing Email Apps
Introverts tend to mourn the thought of actually reaching out and saying 'hi, hello, how r u'. Sadly in SaaS, you do need to talk to people...
👍🏻 Postmark App (10/month) and it can do everything (Ill write a detailed blog post)
I posted on Medium and Indie Hackers as it was too long to type up ion ProductHunt' s small window.
Medium : https://medium.com/@RishiU/7-opinionated-tools-i-always-use-to-build-my-saas-and-how-i-go-to-market-faster-8ac7d72ac5b6
If you don't like Medium here it is on IndieHackers
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/7-opinionated-tools-i-always-use-to-build-my-saas-and-how-i-go-to-market-faster-c0e93ae84b
Please let me know what tools do you use?
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amrin@coderamrin
SaaSBold
I am a first-time maker, and we will launch in the next month or the month after. when we finish building.
thanks for these tips. will check out your blog too :)
by the way, we are creating Html website templates for SaaS and indie makers.
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