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  • Considering nobody said anything about scale…you literally don’t know what you’re talking about.

    In our case, this is a FinTech B2B SaaS (our customers are mostly banks), i.e. highly regulated and ALL of our customers expect a high degree of security. We have to fill out extensive questionnaire’s asking about IT security before they’ll even consider us. So, I hired a professional to design and implement a secure, private network (i.e. nothing exposed to the internet, configure a firewall, set up VPN, etc). So, no not over-engineered if it’s a requirement for the industry. Not all startups are simple B2C apps that you can throw up on lowcode and crank out a working MVP in 10 days…



  • I have 15 years of software development experience (same stack) and launched a B2B SaaS startup about 10 months ago. I do not recommend nocode/low code. I spent about 2 days playing with bubble before abandoning it for VS Code. I’ve built an entire platform in Azure consisting of Cosmos DB, a couple C# API’s and a couple C# Azure Functions. Hired a couple Upwork consultants to handle cloud infrastructure (Terraform) and front-end work. Development skills + AI will get you where you need to be quickly.

    Avoid low-code. AI makes it irrelevant IMO.



  • Expecting to raise 3-5 million for a seed round feels awfully high. As do some of the salary figures offered here. 150k salary pre-revenue?? Maybe I’m just out of touch but that sounds crazy high.

    I am CTO at a pre-revenue startup. Fintech SaaS. We bootstrapped with $100k so I haven’t taken a penny for 6+ months. We have MVP built. Now hoping to raise $1 million to scale. I expect I’ll draw something like $60-$75k per year until we’re profitable. And I have kids. Was making ~$200k as a salaried tech employee before this.