Building SAAS startup is incredibly challenging. It’s a two sided problem where you have to build the product and sell it simultaneously. I have learnt that bootstrapping software development makes it more easier to start and sell something while you gain traction to assemble your real product.

⚡️ Research Papers and Articles

If you are building in SAAS domain, I think you should have general sense of the market and the current trend. The following article shares a snippet from the State of Software report.

I came across this great article on scaling product teams without comprising on quality. The lessons here also applies to any early stage bootstrapping startup as well.

🛠️ Software & Tools

Two of my favourite tools this year for App development have been Airtable and Supabase.

Airtable provide a complete backend functionality with UI controls that lets you do everything in UI space without feeling limited in terms of functionality.

Anyone can start with the similar excel like interface and see data in different views. Then automate workflow with simple yet powerful automations. Finally publish a fully functioning app with its built in interfaces or connect with No Code UI builder like Stacker or Glide.