Interesting story, but nothing about :
How Max set up the payment system.
Which payment system he used so his customers were able to pay him.
How much it cost him to per customer (customer acquisition costs).
Are people willing just to put their credit card number into some unknown site (his original unbranded site)? If so --- wow, no wonder fraud is so rampant.
I've built my own SaaS and it is possible that building the SaaS is far easier than setting up all the payment system stuff, which seems to be why none of these "get paid for your saas" articles ever mention how you really get paid.
Hey @raddevus, the trick is straightforward: I've been building in public :)
My SaaS had my face attached to it since I've built it for a relatively small (several thousand users) local Etsy community in Ukraine, where I've been hanging out for some time before the launch.
Stripe is not working in my country for now, so I've used the well-known local bank integration that required no credit card details (you scan a QR code provided by my SaaS with your mobile phone, the bank app opens up, and you approve the transaction).
If I decide to go international -- I'd integrate with lemonsqueezy.com/
Max also might pop in the comments and provide more context, but I think one of the big factors was that he was already present in the community (Etsy slack) when he introduced the product. So people knew him from before when buying the product, and they knew they could always reach him for support.
Interesting story, but nothing about :
How Max set up the payment system.
Which payment system he used so his customers were able to pay him.
How much it cost him to per customer (customer acquisition costs).
Are people willing just to put their credit card number into some unknown site (his original unbranded site)? If so --- wow, no wonder fraud is so rampant.
I've built my own SaaS and it is possible that building the SaaS is far easier than setting up all the payment system stuff, which seems to be why none of these "get paid for your saas" articles ever mention how you really get paid.
For me setting up a Stripe integration took just 1-2 days, so this is really simplest part of story 😎
Hey @raddevus, the trick is straightforward: I've been building in public :)
My SaaS had my face attached to it since I've built it for a relatively small (several thousand users) local Etsy community in Ukraine, where I've been hanging out for some time before the launch.
Stripe is not working in my country for now, so I've used the well-known local bank integration that required no credit card details (you scan a QR code provided by my SaaS with your mobile phone, the bank app opens up, and you approve the transaction).
If I decide to go international -- I'd integrate with lemonsqueezy.com/
Very interesting thanks for explaining how you got it all working 👍
He used stripe it seems. And yes, people are willing to put their credit card into any random site — they do for mine haha :)
Max also might pop in the comments and provide more context, but I think one of the big factors was that he was already present in the community (Etsy slack) when he introduced the product. So people knew him from before when buying the product, and they knew they could always reach him for support.
Re implementation: check out Wasp's SaaS starter which already comes with preconfigured Stripe: github.com/wasp-lang/SaaS-Template...