Ask HN: How to check the market for your saas product?
I have just finished a small tool that I would like to offer as saas. It is a very simple API that users can use from their terminal through curl/wget.
Still I don't have an idea about how to monetize it but I would like it to be in the wild for a while to see if there is any adoption at all.
My idea is to just buy a domain, publish the link somewhere it makes sense and wait.
Do you have any recommendations on how to maintain, scale and market a service like this?
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 17.1 ms ] threadIt's not so easy building a SaaS business. It was barely true 10yrs ago.
What is your tool about? What problem does it solve? What is the ideal person that would like (love) to use it?
> Do you have any recommendations on how to maintain, scale and market a service like this?
If it's a simple API w/ or without a DB, use Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Firebase. Amazon/Google will do the Ops work for you and you won't have any fixed infrastructure cost.
PS: The hard work is not scaling/maintaining the service, but acquiring customers ;)