Building a SaaS in Public: Bookmark App – Day 1(ish)

https://charlesthecoder.dev/building-saas-in-public-bookmark-app-day-1/

by charly1811 • 6 years ago

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DeonPenny2• 6 years ago

As someone who is just getting over the hump of actually getting people over a long period of time to use a app and give feedback.

I think the best thing I did was find someone willing to talk and test the app outa few times per week. When I talked to users and built and talked it didn't work as well as finding someone willing to look at a half finish product to test the product. I used them almost like product managers and I was a bespoke dev shop.

One since they help build it they more usually use it and will tell you what's broken. They are also are super willing to tell others about it since they have skin in the game.

metabeard• 6 years ago

I've previously had a Pocket subscription and switched to Bear Pro to track bookmarks but neither is perfect. I would be happy to offer feedback each week as you build out your app.

charly18113• 6 years ago

Hi Metabeard! If you're interested in having a chat about your experience with other tools and possibly becoming an early adopter of my app you can shoot me an email at charles@charlesthecoder.dev :)

omniscient_oce• 6 years ago

I actually started building something like this too, I think it's a pretty common project idea. I ended up finding raindrop.io which I really really like. Maybe you can check it out. The free version is good enough for me at the moment but I'm considering upgrading. I use Pocket to save stuff I'm gonna read later, then if it's a really good resource I put it in Raindrop and categorise + tag it. It also has moodboard if you wanna save images as references.

charly18113• 6 years ago

Thanks for your insight! Finding someone willing to try an half baked product can be hard. how did you do it?

Building a SaaS in Public: Bookmark App – Day 1(ish)

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