When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:

  • Build a project you have in your head
  • Profit

No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It’s like we insist on only learning them after we fail.

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    10 months ago

    This should be the top comment in this thread.

    Most of the SaaS founders that I’ve interviewed attributed their success to priortizing their marketing over building.

    Build it (and marketing the sh*t out of it), and then they will come