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Boilerplate for building API products #SaaS #API

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:36:00 +0000

An Application Programming Interface(API) product is where the consumer is usually a developer who uses our product to perform a task within their own product to save cost and time in building it themselves.

Just like when building any SaaS product, A boilerplate ( /problems/345 ) is useful for reducing the time and effort in building our API product. But unlike a SaaS product, We need limited number of features as an API product doesn't usually have complex front-ends.

Namely,

user management
api quota & pricing
security

But there seems to be a need-gap in boilerplate for building API products, As available ones seem to be built for typical SaaS products and thereby charge more for the features we don't need and the reasonably priced ones seem to be unreliable(Which matters a lot since our customers depend on our API to run their business).

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Boilerplate for building SaaS products #SaaS #web

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:46:00 +0000

Every user-facing SaaS product requires a basic set of features that are common to every SaaS. This includes features like:

user registration / authentication
email / password reset (general app settings and user preferences)
sending emails
file storage on cloud services
error tracking
deployment configuration files
payments!

Implementing these features is a major distraction for founders, because this takes up time they cannot spend building their own business logic. And when done correctly, this can easily take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

3 points posted by siddhantgoel

Funding not aligned with building business #funding #saas

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:56:00 +0000

Too many investment and accelerators models built around getting funded by classic VCs (be it VC equity, debt or a hybrid of the two). Investment terms suit a multiple rounds of VC raising, but aren’t really aligned with the way of building businesses that most founders prefer. There is a significant lack of source of capital that is aligned with founders who want to build a healthy, sustainable, profitable business.
Revenue-based funding requires no equity to be sacrificed by a founder and it could be a solution unless it takes the form of another black-box 'computer says no' type of approach. There needs to be a revenue-based funding with the human oversight to see the founder/business behind the numbers (MRR, churn etc.) and also work out a truly appropriate solution for the founder's need.

3 points posted by Alex_EpsiFund

Configuring custom domains for SaaS is difficult #domain #SaaS

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:33:00 +0000

Mature SaaS products often allow users to bring their own domain / subdomain. This allows for customizability and familiarity for their customers. Or perhaps you need to have a 3rd-party tool hosted under your domain for technical reasons. Scaling the SSL / TLS certificates for all these custom domains is very complicated!

In addition, your SaaS might need to support white-labeling so that clients can have their own branding on your app, such as their logo, colors, and other customizations to make it appear like part of their application. This is important when your user is trying to establish a consistent brand with their customers.

3 points posted by yroc92

Streamline individual businesses to subscription #Digitization #SaaS

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:07:00 +0000

Goal/Objective

To make it very simple for any business owner to transform its current services to a subscription business model and expand/increase its customer base.

Who is the target audience?

The audience is anyone who provides a service or sells a product to a customer and has repetitive transactions. The audience can be tech-savvy or not at all tech-savvy.

Example Audience

Coconut Water Individual
Fitness Instructor
Cleaning People

Why

To streamline payments
Engage & Manage existing customers. Providing new content, deals, etc.

1 points posted by vedant