AWS, cloudflare workers, supabase? What’s yours?

Greetings, Im Dee and im From South Africa. Anyone in this group from Africa? Thanks to Admin for accepting my invite. My interest in Saas Stems from taking everything I Didn't want regarding owning a business and it pointed in this direction. I am no coder, hardly tech savvy but that never stopped anyone. Please don't be irritated by any noob questions I might ask as Im still fairly new to this space and definitely not frighted by it especially with all the negative opinions about starting and growing a saas company. Thanks talk to you guys soon! ;)

I don't have enough appendages to count the amount of times that Ive *thought* I've done my due diligence in market research only to get started on development, need to look something up, and find a solution that does the exact thing I'm trying to accomplish / void I'm trying to fill. This usually leaves me in an extremely disheartened slump that takes a while to get out of. So my question is this: Is it worth subbing out the task of market research? Despite all I've learned from previous experiences, my research checklist never seems verbose enough to cover all of the angles that I don't consider. After all, I can't know what I don't know.

I've been sitting at thinking at what would make a SaaS community good for me, and I have some points here. 1) Drop in some onboarding questions and ask individuals what they have done before and if they are looking to start a SaaS or are already busy with it. (the poll suggests everyone here started). What is not valueable to me is being stuck with people "thinking" about starting something but not actually doing it. Also, by asking individuals what they have done, you avoid the people that are procrastinating on their build. 2) Charge money. Like 1-5 dollar. People don't appreciate free and I can already tell you that 90-99% of the members that have joined will not return and just clicked on join as an impulse monkey. Charging just a little will make people think more because they have to link the card etc, and it acts as a barrier for the impulse monkeys. I've started so many dang discord groups and joined lots of other people's groups and it always happens. People have no attention span anymore and act impulsive. I would use this money purely for community improvement and be transparant.

Honestly - when I posted this yesterday morning I didn't expect this... Thank you so much for joining! This has given me such a boost that I have dedicated 2 hours a day to generating content just for the soul purpose of growing this community. Incase you are a statistics dork (like myself), I thought that I'd share some interesting figures about the Reddit post ⬇️ So far we are currently on 13,000 views and interestingly: - 406 looked at the community page - 26 signed up in total - 6.4% conversion of the landing page - 0.2% conversion from the Reddit post I thought that I'd share this with you just incase you are interested in what the signup returns are from a cold Reddit post like this! In my opinion, the returns are pretty insane considering it took me less than 15 minutes to write. I am going to write some more now, maybe do a LinkedIn post and share an embarrassing story about how I lost $200k of private investment on Facebook ads (in 3 months) for my first SaaS product 🫣 Thank you to all of you that has joined in conversations so far and it's been great chatting to you in the DM's. Your stories and situations are all so interesting and deserve to be heard. I really think that we can build the largest SaaS community in the world together!