I Built My First SaaS as a 22-Year-Old Student: A Lightweight Project Management Tool for Personal Use

Justin_Li — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:17:55 +0000

Hi DEV community 👋

I’m a 22-year-old student from Taiwan, and for the past 6 months, I’ve been working on my first SaaS side project — Herewegoal: a lightweight, personal project management tool.

Why I built it?

As someone juggling school, freelance gigs, and personal projects, I kept running into project management tools that felt… too much.

Trello was too clicky and hard to share tasks with people outside my workspace
Notion was super flexible, but I often spent more time organizing than actually doing
Jira… well, that one’s not even built for people like me 😅

I just wanted something that:

Helps me track what I’m doing today
Makes it easy to share tasks without inviting people to a team
Doesn’t overwhelm me with features I never use

So I decided to build it myself.

What's different?

Distraction-free by design – Built for focus, not features.
From project → today – Set do dates, not just due dates.
One-to-many delegation – Assign tasks without requiring others to sign up.
Tasks and projects in one place – No more switching between tools.

I’d love your thoughts on:

First impressions
Features you’d expect or want to see
Whether this would help with your personal workflows (important!!)

Herewegoal is still early-stage and your feedback would really help me shape it further.

👉 herewegoal (MVP is live!)

Thanks for reading, and even more if you give it a try!

DEV Community: Justin_Li

I Built My First SaaS as a 22-Year-Old Student: A Lightweight Project Management Tool for Personal Use