The intro is almost my life story: family, kids, mortgage, python and django, writing a book, aiming to be my own boss... :)
In the beginning of the year, I officially launched 1st-things-1st.com/, a SaaS based on Django and ReactJS. Unfortunately, the project is not profitable yet. And I am realising that coding skills are not enough. Sales and marketing are no less important for successful SaaS.
So good luck! And contact me in person if you want to exchange some details about SaaS development and small business.
Yep, I definitely realize that launching something isn't the end goal -- it's the beginning! Then starts marketing, SEO, getting the word out, etc., etc. Finding product-market-founder fit is super tricky, too! Now I just need to write a new post with my continued thinking about this. :)
What I noticed from the last months of learnings about marketing: the marketing should start before the launch while building or even before starting to build something. Otherwise, you won't get enough people interested.
One of the common practices is having a website with a form to subscribe for information about your product launch. Another approach is having a crowdfunding campaign.
These approaches let you evaluate how necessary the product could be for other people.
And for SEO, it's necessary to have a unique product name and domain name. As well as create some blog content while developing, to get indexed and get higher search-engine rankings pretty soon.
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The intro is almost my life story: family, kids, mortgage, python and django, writing a book, aiming to be my own boss... :)
In the beginning of the year, I officially launched 1st-things-1st.com/, a SaaS based on Django and ReactJS. Unfortunately, the project is not profitable yet. And I am realising that coding skills are not enough. Sales and marketing are no less important for successful SaaS.
So good luck! And contact me in person if you want to exchange some details about SaaS development and small business.
Yep, I definitely realize that launching something isn't the end goal -- it's the beginning! Then starts marketing, SEO, getting the word out, etc., etc. Finding product-market-founder fit is super tricky, too! Now I just need to write a new post with my continued thinking about this. :)
What I noticed from the last months of learnings about marketing: the marketing should start before the launch while building or even before starting to build something. Otherwise, you won't get enough people interested.
One of the common practices is having a website with a form to subscribe for information about your product launch. Another approach is having a crowdfunding campaign.
These approaches let you evaluate how necessary the product could be for other people.
And for SEO, it's necessary to have a unique product name and domain name. As well as create some blog content while developing, to get indexed and get higher search-engine rankings pretty soon.