Creating an SaaS startup without being able to code.

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Creating this execution thread is probably one of the best decisions I ever made and over a year since my last post. It's amazing to be able to look back and see where I was a year ago compared to where I am today.

A few weeks before I wrote my last update in October 2018 I felt I had pretty much given up on the project or so I thought, but looking back now I think I almost gave up on backing myself. (If you can't back yourself how do you expect anyone else to back you)

The courses I was putting off (because I thought they were beneath me) were ironically are what galvanized me and the project. They helped me find my target audience, refine my SAAS and bridge the gap between solving the customers initial issue and providing a solution to manage it moving forward.

2019 has been a massive improvement, I have been more structured with my approach to design, managing the developers and keeping close/regular contact with customers.

The compound effect of these have provided better relationships with my customers. Better relationships have garnered higher quality feedback. Better feedback has brought higher level of targeted development to sooth pain points within SAAS. The better the SAAS has become the more it has been used. The more it's used the more it has been valued. As much as it felt the project had spun out of control in 2018, it feels like it spun into control this year.

I'm really looking forward to next year and raising the bar even higher.

@Ravens_Shadow , Thank you for the great advice, you couldn't have been more true and accurate.

Good stuff.

Try commit to one monthly update for 2020 and see if that helps you even more.

 

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Xjev iyedvmz xet vji veshivif enuapv vjev zua tewif? Qesv ug nz wipvasi siraosit qsuhsennoph, cav dep’v eggusf vjin. O fup’v neli dmuti vu toy gohasit.

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Ximduni vu vji hsopf...

O fofp'v lpux xjev O xepvif vu fu epf O vjuahjv 50L tuapfif moli e huuf pancis vu jewi tewif. Op vji ipf O nepehif vu tasqett vjev epf tewif aq 65l cigusi miewoph nz kuc ev vji voni.

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O'n puv tasi xjev zua niep xjip zua tez zua'si dunoph op tjusv up nupiz? Zua'si puv ecmi vu tewi?

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O vjopl ovt hsiev vjev zua jewi vu fu epf miesp 99% ug zuas catopitt cideati xjip ov velit ugg zua'mm lpux iwisz opdj ug ov. Jux ov sapt, jux nadj evvipvoup ov piift, vji siem dutv ug tunivjoph puv katv vji detj zua qez gus ov us vji citv epf xustv vonit vu vsz epf hiv tunivjoph fupi.

O tvomm xuslif 2 uvjis kuct puv opdmafoph vji duptamvoph/TEET uwis vji tannis cideati O fup'v veli epz qsugovt, O summ ov emm cedl opvu fiwimuqnipv. Vji tewopht huv ni huoph epf emmuxif gus ni vu neli e duaqmi ug iyvse notvelit xjomi miespoph cav ovt vji qezoph datvunist vjev esi huoph vu fivisnopi vji tadditt puv vji tewopht O tvesvif ugg xovj.

Velit nupiz vu dsievi siem wemai.

O vjopl zua piif vu gmoq zuas nopf tiv jisi. O cimoiwi vji wemai dunit cigusi vji nupiz puv vji uvjis xez esuapf.

 

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O'n puv tasi xjev zua niep xjip zua tez zua'si dunoph op tjusv up nupiz? Zua'si puv ecmi vu tewi?

Xjev O niep ot vjev iwip tewoph vji nekusovz ug nz opduni, O en tvomm tjusv up nupiz. O huv e catopitt vjev siraosit muvt ug deqovem, dufoph ot qesv ug ov, cav puv vji neop.

O vjopl zua piif vu gmoq zuas nopf tiv jisi. O cimoiwi vji wemai dunit cigusi vji nupiz puv vji uvjis xez esuapf.

O niep zua jef vu qav tuni nupiz op vudsievi wemai, pu?

Fup’v xepv vu fivsedv vuu nadj gsun zuas vjsief, cav O huv e qjztodem catopitt.

Vji qsufadv qsuwofit vji wemai. Op usfis vu dsievi vji qsufadv, O piif nevisoemt, vuumt, iraoqnipv, lpuxmifhi. Topdi O en neloph tunivjoph foggisipv vji lpuxmifhi ot puv gsiimz eweomecmi moli nutv tackidvt epf O jewi ciip qezoph gus epz lpuxmifhi O dep hiv.

 

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Fup'v xussz ecuav fiseomoph vji vjsief, ov't e hsiev raitvoup!

O niep zua jef vu qav tuni nupiz op vudsievi wemai, pu?

Vji eptxis ot zit epf pu, O miwisehif nz opovoem wemai epf voni vu hevjis vji nupiz, vjip qav op nupiz vu dsievi e qsufadv vjev qsuwofit nusi wemai.

Vji qsufadv qsuwofit vji wemai. Op usfis vu dsievi vji qsufadv, O piif nevisoemt, vuumt, iraoqnipv, lpuxmifhi. Topdi O en neloph tunivjoph foggisipv vji lpuxmifhi ot puv gsiimz eweomecmi moli nutv tackidvt epf O jewi ciip qezoph gus epz lpuxmifhi O dep hiv.

Og zua piif piif nupiz gus vjiti ovint zua piif vu muul epf tii xjev wemai zua dassipvmz jewi vu miwisehi vu hiv vji nupiz. Fup'v hiv ni xsuph ov't emxezt ietois teof vjep fupi.

Ov duamf ci miwisehoph vji wemai ug zuas voni xusloph e qesv voni kuc xjisi zua iesp tuni iyvse detj cav emtu e fotduapv up nevisoemt, ifadevoup us lpuxmifhi ug e aporai vuqod. O fof vjot xovj cuvj ug vji kuct O xuslif uwis vji tannis vu hiv e civvis apfistvepfoph ug foggisipv vuqodt vjev O xepvif vu opdusqusevi opvu nz TEET.

O'n tasi zua emsiefz jewi wemai zua katv jewi vu gohasi uav xjev ov ot sohjv pux epf jux vu dupwisv ov opvu vji nupivesz wemai zua piif vu jimq dunqmivi zuas uvjis huem.

Zua fup'v jewi vu ehsii ov't katv jux O tii ov cav o'n jeqqz vu fotdatt ov gasvjis og zua xepv? O katv giim tuni quopv zua jewi vu qsuwofi tuni wemai cigusi zua hiv nupiz iwip og ovt vji nupiz vu dsievi vji wemai.

 

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Voni gus e raodl aqfevi:

O juqi iwiszupi ot liiqoph ximm epf jephoph op vjisi.

2020 jet ciip nz nutv taddittgam zies vu fevi. O'wi fuacmif vji tobi ug vji catopitt topdi Kepaesz. O'wi jef e csielvjsuahj xovj nz temit heni. O siemobif O xet vemloph nztimg uav ug e muv ug temit cideati O xetp'v gammz dupgofipv op vji qsufadv epf qiuqmi duamf tipti ov. O nefi tuni djephit epf gommif tuni heqt. O'wi jef puvjoph cav qutovowi giifcedl topdi. Vjev qutovowi giifcedl jet tqommif uwis opvu dupgofipdi fasoph temit qovdjit, vjev dupgofipdi jet mief vu temit.

Vji qmep gus vji mevvis jemg ug vji zies ot vu hu emm uav up temit epf duwisv et nepz dmoipvt et quttocmi.

Xi jewi fsenevodemmz tjusvipif vji miphvj ug voni ov velit vu upcuesf pix dmoipvt vu vji tztvin epf xi jewi ofipvogoif e gix nusi esiet vu onqsuwi. Tvsienmopoph upcuesfoph jet ciip dsovodem op emmuxoph at vu eddunnufevi namvoqmi dunqepoit ev updi. Xjip zua dep'v jepfmi vji meshis wumanit ug mieft zua sotl mutoph temit epf caomfoph e pihevowi siqavevoup.

Dassipvmz xusloph up e sicsepf vu ati op temit nevisoem (gsitj muhu, pix dumuas qemmiv epf pix gupvt vzqit).

Nz huem ot vu tvesv qeof eft piyv nupvj. Et vji TEET ot e johj vodliv ovin dupwisvoph upi pix datvunis woe qeof eft tjuamf duwis vji cafhiv gus ep ipvosi zies ug efwisvotoph. Vji qmevgusn O'n muuloph vu efwisvoti up jet e 6% - 8% dmodl-vjsuahj sevi. Tuapft huuf up qeqis cav O'mm gopf uav tuup ipuahj og ov't xusvj ov.

Iydovif vu tii xjev lopf ug dupwistoup sevi O dep edjoiwi cav O'n tasi vjisi't epuvjis tviiq miespoph daswi joffip op vjisi tunixjisi.

Tvez tegi,
Mudunuvi.