DEV Community: Saasify

How interested are you in working remotely?

Travis Fischer — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:44:07 +0000

Lately, I've been having some fun pushing the limits of Typeform's free tier with the goal of doing some market research for Saasify.

Since we're really all about helping developers launch their own remote passive income streams, I'd love it if some of you fine folks took a few minutes to help me with some market research. (10 questions, ~2 minutes)

And because your time is valuable, if you fill out the survey and respond to this thread pointing me to a project of yours, I will personally review your project / website / landing page / idea and give you the best feedback I can offer. Maybe it'll be worthwhile, maybe it won't but I promise that I'll try to help you out with targeted feedback.

Also, if any hackers out there have had success with their own forms of market research, I'd love to hear what's worked for you.

Thanks! ❤

Modern web accessibility 💪

Travis Fischer — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:16:51 +0000

We're excited to help enable a more accessible & inclusive web via Ta11y, an open source suite of modern web accessibility testing tools.

Intro

We've tried to design Ta11y to be as simple to use as possible.

The easiest way to get started is via the CLI, but you can also use it programmatically from Node.js via @ta11y/core.

Ta11y uses Puppeteer to crawl and extract content from websites, so you can be sure you're testing any dynamic, JavaScript-powered content that your users will see.

Ta11y supports a large number of output formats such as JSON, Excel, CSV, and HTML.

Features

Accessibility as a service
- Audit your websites with a range of test suites including WCAG 2.0/2.1 A, AA, AAA, Section 508, HTML validation, as well as our own best practices.
Flexible and automated
- Run manual tests during development and then integrate into any CI pipeline. Supports generating reports in XLS, XLSX, CSV, JSON, HTML, and more.
Runs in any environment
- Easy integration that supports localhost, firewalls, custom auth, as well as any public production environment.
Modern dynamic websites
- Ta11y treats all websites as dynamic with full JavaScript support, so you'll test pages as your users actually experience them.
Free to try
- Simple to get started for free, then sign up once you're ready to remove rate limits. Have a non-profit use case? Get in touch.
Private & secure
- Ta11y is built using serverless functions and never stores any of your data or audit results.

Examples

This example runs the wcag2a and wcag2aa audit test suites on the given URL and outputs the results to an Excel spreadsheet (supports any xls, xlsx, or csv file).

ta11y https://example.com -o audit.xls

This example runs the wcag2a and wcag2aa audit test suites on the given URL and outputs the results to a comma-separated-value file (csv).

ta11y https://example.com --suites wcag2a,wcag2aa -o audit.csv

This example will crawl all pages of a local site and then perform an audit of the results.

Note that the local site does not have to be publicly accessible as content extraction happens locally.

ta11y http://localhost:3000 --crawl -o audit.json

Feedback

Ta11y is a new open source project written in JavaScript and built on the shoulders of other OSS giants.

We're looking for feedback and contributors, so please try it out and let us know if you have any thoughts. Thanks! 🙏

One SaaS PH Launch a Week...

Travis Fischer — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:14:55 +0000

Our team at Saasify is busy preparing for our YC interview in a few weeks.

In order to validate our product, our main objective right now is to launch one fully polished FaaS API every week for the next two months!

We recently had our first two PH launches for products built on top of Saasify:

Puppet Master - Headless chrome as a service.
Synopsis - Summarize any website or article automagically.

These should give you a good idea for the types of SaaS API products we're targeting.

One of the things that I'm most excited about is how Saasify enables us to launch many product experiments very quickly. Too many founders put all their eggs into one basket and inevitably fail to find product / market fit, and with Saasify, we're hoping that each of these product launches will teach us about more about our market and what to focus on.

Our thesis is that many of these individual FaaS products will fail to gain traction, but if each one has a certain probability of finding product / market fit, then N independent product launches improves our chances linearly by N, which imho is extremely powerful in the aggregate.

Eventually, these products will all blend into a cohesive marketplace of standardized FaaS, but for now we're focusing on marketing them as standalone SaaS products to optimize messaging and inbound channels.

We have a strong pipeline of projects and OSS authors we're working with to meet our aggressive launch schedule, but we need YOUR help!

If you have a project you'd like to saasify and start monetizing, we'd LOVE to hear from you!

Feel free to DM me on our open slack && thanks for reading!